Everyone in the room hears it on their own phone

Mixing sessions often have more than one set of ears in the room. The artist wants to hear their vocal on the phone they'll play it on. The producer wants to check the low end on AirPods. The client wants to hear it the way their audience will. Usually that means bouncing a file and passing it round, by which point the mix has already moved on.

With MixOutpost, each of them opens the app on their own iPhone and hears the live session, as you change it.

Each phone is independent

Everyone hears the same stream from your Mac, but each phone plays it their own way. Nothing a listener does changes your monitors, your DAW or anyone else's phone.

• Own volume. −40 to 0 dB, with Dim and Mute, remembered for each source.
• Own Listen as mode. The artist can stay in stereo while the producer checks mono or side.
• Own output. Phone speaker, AirPods, Bluetooth, AirPlay or wired, whichever each person prefers.
• Own checks. Loudness, EQ, recording and A/B run on each phone separately.

You can see who's listening

The plugin window lists the phones that are connected, by name. When you're about to play something that isn't ready, such as a rough edit or a reference from another client, you know exactly who will hear it. If someone shouldn't be listening any more, remove their phone with Forget on the Mac; the others aren't affected.

Setting up a session

1. 01

   Start sharing on the Mac

   Insert the plugin last on the Stereo Out and press Start Sharing, or share Mac audio from the Mac app.

2. 02

   Get everyone on the same network

   Each phone needs to join the network the Mac is on, and install the MixOutpost iPhone app. A guest network that isolates devices won't work.

3. 03

   Pair each phone once

   Click Pair phone… on the Mac and have each person scan the QR code, or enter the 6-digit code while you approve it on the Mac. Next time they come in, their phone reconnects without pairing again.

4. 04

   Everyone taps Listen

   Each phone picks the source and plays. The plugin's list fills up as they connect.

Who's typically on the list

Security with more people

More listeners doesn't mean less control. Each phone still has to be paired with your approval, every stream is encrypted with TLS 1.3, and the audio never leaves your network. See security for how pairing works.

Free and Pro

Under the proposed split, Free includes one or two phones listening at once and Pro raises that to more, up to eight. The split may change before launch. See pricing.