Built to disappear into your session.
A small, fast plug-in and a free phone app that put your mix on your phone in one tap - so you can hear how it really sounds where it counts. Below: what it does, what it doesn't, and why.
Your DAW, playing on your phone.
mixaphone captures the master bus of your DAW inside the plug-in, encodes it, and pushes it as UDP packets to your phone over the local network. A small jitter buffer on the phone smooths out the inevitable Wi-Fi hiccups.
On 5 GHz Wi-Fi with the buffer set to Tight,
you should see round-trip latency around
50 ms. On a busy 2.4 GHz
network, the Stable preset trades that down to
around 120 ms in exchange
for fewer dropouts. The choice lives in the iPhone app's
gear menu.
Every major DAW. The honest version.
Some DAWs accept MIDI Machine Control (MMC) cleanly; others don't. mixaphone streams audio either way - what changes is whether the play / stop / locate buttons on your phone can drive the DAW's transport. The matrix doesn't fudge this.
| DAW | Mac | Win | Audio | Remote transport | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logic Pro | ✓ | - | ✓ | full | MMC via project sync settings |
| REAPER | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | full | Right-click MIDI in to enable |
| Cubase Pro | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | pro only | Elements does not expose MMC |
| Studio One | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | full | All tiers, including Free |
| FL Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | auto | Usually auto-enabled |
| GarageBand | ✓ | - | ✓ | monitor only | GB has no MMC input |
| Ableton Live | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | monitor only | No native MMC input |
| Bitwig Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | monitor only | Controller-script, not MMC |
MMC is the protocol Logic, REAPER, Cubase, Studio One, and FL Studio listen to. Ableton, Bitwig, and GarageBand don't accept it natively - audio monitoring still works, but you'll drive transport from the computer or a controller.
Free phone apps. No account.
The iPhone and Android apps are free - no account. Open the app and hear your mix on your phone, exactly how it lands for everyone else. A phone-only mute silences the computer's speakers while your headphones keep streaming - handy in a shared studio.
The real streaming screen on iPhone - live VU, peak / RMS readouts, transport, and a phone-only mute that silences the computer.
One-time price. Three devices. No subscription.
mixaphone is $14 once. The license covers three devices you own or control - your studio Mac, your laptop, your partner's Windows machine, whatever fits. Hit the limit and you can deactivate any device from inside the plug-in to free up a slot.
The license phones home occasionally to re-validate. If your network is down for up to seven days, mixaphone keeps working. Past that you'll get a non-blocking nag until it can re-check. We don't time-bomb your sessions.
If mixaphone doesn't run in your DAW or reach your phone, you can ask for a refund within 14 days. Email support@humpbackaudio.com with your order ID and a quick note on what went wrong.
One tap. The room stays quiet.
The phone app has a 📱 toggle that drops the computer's output to silence while the phone keeps streaming. Late-night sessions, shared studios, listening tests while someone else is on a call - all handled from your pocket.
The plug-in remembers the state per project, so you can leave a session and come back to the same mute behavior the next day.
14-day, works-or-refund. So just try it.
If mixaphone won't run in your DAW or reach your phone, email and we'll refund you. We'd rather fix it than keep your $14.