Free Mac plugin · iPhone app
For music and film. MixOutpost streams the mix from your DAW or video editor to your iPhone: lossless, bit-exact and encrypted, while you're still working. Check it on the phone speaker, your AirPods or any AirPlay or Bluetooth speaker, switch to mono, and read loudness against Spotify or Netflix without bouncing a thing.
AU · VST3 · Mac audio app / Logic, Ableton, Resolve, Premiere and more / macOS 12+ · iOS 17+
Why
Songs get played on phone speakers and earbuds. Films and shows get watched on phones and laptops. Bouncing a reference, AirDropping it and pressing play has always been part of the job, and it's slow. It also tells you nothing about the change you made thirty seconds ago. MixOutpost puts the live session on your phone, whether it's a song in your DAW or a timeline in your editor, so the phone becomes another monitor you can reach for.
How it works
Put the MixOutpost plugin last on your master bus, whether that's the Stereo Out in your DAW or the main bus in your editor, and press Start Sharing. It never touches your audio, and offline bounces and exports are skipped.
No master bus, like Final Cut Pro? The Mac app shares all Mac audio through a system tap, with no loopback driver and no feedback.
Scan the QR code with the app or the iPhone Camera, or enter a 6-digit code and approve it on the Mac. One pairing covers every plugin instance on that Mac.
Your session plays on the phone with the screen locked or in other apps: on its speaker, AirPods, or any AirPlay, Bluetooth or wired device the phone can reach.
The iPhone app
Not just the phone
The iPhone is the hub. Whatever it can send audio to, your live session can play on: AirPlay, Bluetooth or a cable. Walk the mix from the studio to the living room without exporting a thing.
AirPlay and Bluetooth add their own delay, typically a fraction of a second to about two seconds, so what you hear runs a little behind the Mac. For checking how a mix translates, that doesn't matter.
Checking the mix
Find out what survives the mono speaker: the vocal, the dialogue, the kick. Hear what's living in the sides. It's one tap on the phone, and your session stays untouched.
Mono compatibility guideFull stereo image, as your Mac sends it.
Momentary, short-term and integrated LUFS (EBU R128), LRA and true peak, against music streaming, broadcast and Netflix delivery specs. See how a service will treat your track, or whether your program passes.
All loudness targetsWith clip indicators, and per channel for surround.
Low shelf, mid peak and high shelf let you mimic small speakers. The meters ignore it.
Bit-exact 32-bit float WAV of exactly what arrived, saved in Files.
Add a second source as B, like a reference or last night's version. Match their volumes and switch without clicks.
−20 dB dim, a mute, and volume that snaps to unity and is remembered for each source.
5.1 up to 7.1.4 from plugin buses. Spatial on AirPods and AirPlay, folded down on the speaker.
Built not to break the session
Reliability is never a paid feature. It's the whole point.
Everyone in the room
Up to eight phones can listen at once. Each phone has its own volume, Listen as mode and output, and the plugin shows you who's connected.
What's different
Mono is the most important check on a phone speaker, so it isn't behind a paywall.
Every stream uses TLS 1.3 and paired devices, even inside your studio. Not just on a paid relay.
Connection info on the phone tells you whether what you hear matches what left the Mac, sample for sample.
No monthly fee for a tool you open every session, and no account to create.
Free & Pro
The Mac plugin and app are free, with no license keys, serials or accounts. Pro will be a single in-app purchase on iPhone.
$0
$29.99 once
The Free and Pro split may change before launch. Pricing details
Requirements
FAQ
Not yet. MixOutpost streams over your local network (Wi-Fi or Ethernet). Remote listening over the internet is planned but on hold.
No. The plugin is a transparent insert, and its output is bit-identical to its input. It just sends a copy to the paired phones. Offline bounces and exports are skipped, so they don't flood the phone.
Yes. At 48 kHz, the audio arrives bit-exact, and Connection info on the phone confirms it. Sessions at other rates are converted to 48 kHz. Record on the phone and you get a 32-bit float WAV of exactly what arrived.
No. Only phones you've paired can connect, and all audio is encrypted with TLS 1.3. Pairing takes a QR code, or a 6-digit code that you approve on the Mac.
Any Mac host that loads AU or VST3 plugins. It's verified in Logic Pro, including when Logic runs plugins in a separate process, and in Ableton Live as both AU and VST3. Video editors with a mixer, like DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro, take the same plugin on the main bus (not yet tested). Pro Tools (AAX) is coming. For anything else, including Final Cut Pro, the Mac app can share all Mac audio.
A Windows sender, an Android listener and an Apple TV app are planned after launch. An iPad layout has been proposed.
Because you'd use this every session, for years. Pro will be a single purchase, and the Mac side is free.
Built by film and music makers
MixOutpost was created by director, editor and producer Wayan Palmieri, together with recording artist and music producer Ido Liran (Quadra / Save the Robot). We built it to fix a problem in our own workflow: hearing the live mix on the devices people actually use, without exporting and transferring a new file every time.
Filmmaker | Creative Technologist | Producer | AI & Hybrid Production
Director, editor and producer. His recent work includes AI production for Season 14 of Fox's The Masked Singer.
DJ and Music Artist
Producing electronic music since the mid-1990s as Quadra and Save the Robot, with tracks on more than 100 releases.
Install the free Mac plugin now. The iPhone app is free on the App Store.
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