In the past, the only solution to this was to then twist the manual volume control on my external spaekers, which sort of defeats the purpose of using the keyboard-based keys.

Gadgets Control the Volume on Your Mac Using the Trackpad With the aid of a third-party utility you can get this set up pretty easily, and we’ll show you how.

If it isn't present in the menu, a quick way for granular volume control is to continue using the keyboard volume control keys, but while also holding down Option-Shift.

You can use the encoder for volume control on the base layer and something more advanced on another. Read on to discover the many functions you can program into the keyboard's rotary knob.

You'd think that controlling the volume on an iPhone or iPad would be pretty straightforward: Just use the volume switch, right? As Sharon Zardetto explains, it's not that simple.

So, I have Tiger, on a Quicksilver, and I use my beloved Happy Hacking keyboard; the only thing I miss on it is being able to lower/ rise the volume of the system (if the Quicksilver is on, 99% of ...

I'd like to remap some keys on my keyboard to do volume + and - instead of whatever they do. Is there software that will do this? Even a reg hack would be fine.