Make typing ASMR on a Mac

Updated October 25, 2026

You can make typing ASMR on a Mac by putting a microphone near a real keyboard, or by playing a keyboard sound app and recording the Mac's own audio, which has no room noise at all. For the second, pick a soft pack and keep the app's volume low, then raise the level in your editor.

Search YouTube for “typing asmr” and its suggestions include “macbook”, “creamy” and “study”. Most of those videos are one of two things.

Two ways to make it

A third way joins them: record your own keyboard into Teclo’s Create page once (record your own keyboard sounds), then capture it cleanly from the app every time after.

Picking a sound

ASMR viewers search for soft words: “creamy”, “thocky”, “soft”. Play the four packs above with your own typing:

• Butter: linear, lubed, on gaskets and foam. A soft, rounded clack at 2,479 Hz and 80 ms; the closest Teclo has to “creamy”.
• Pebble: tactile and lubed, the darkest keyboard pack at 2,370 Hz.
• Muffle: silent switches on foam, a dull pad of 55 ms.
• Marimba: not a keyboard; a soft mallet on a wooden bar at 713 Hz, ringing 120 ms.

Brightness is the energy-weighted average frequency of a key press; lower reads as softer. Every Teclo pack is levelled to the same loudness, so you can switch packs between takes without re-adjusting.

Set the volume for recording

Teclo’s volume slider goes past your Mac’s own level by driving a limiter, which keeps loud sounds from clipping by squeezing their peaks. That helps on quiet laptop speakers and hurts in a recording, where squeezed clicks lose their snap. From Teclo’s code: below about 30% of the slider, Teclo turns the sound down without the limiter adding gain; above that, the limiter works harder the further right you go.

So for a recording, set Teclo’s slider below about 30%, record, and raise the level in your editor afterwards.

Capture it

• macOS 27 Golden Gate: Apple’s Screenshot app (Shift-Command-5) has “Include System Audio” in Options.
• macOS 13 Ventura to 26 Tahoe: neither the Screenshot app nor QuickTime Player records system audio, only a microphone. OBS Studio 30 or later has a “macOS Audio Capture” source that records all desktop audio or one app’s.

Screen recording with internal sound has the steps for each, and how to record only Teclo so notification sounds stay out.

A few details viewers notice

• Every key different. Teclo gives Space, Return and Delete their own sound and varies each press slightly in level and pitch, so a long take does not loop.
• Stereo. Keys on the left lean left and keys on the right lean right; in headphones the keyboard sounds as wide as it looks. See stereo keyboard sounds.
• Typing speed. Calm, even typing is what these videos are made of; Teclo’s pet, if it is on screen, goes from calm to happy as your pace rises and can be hidden from its Pet page.