YourCue

by 24 Bit Sound Studio, Calgary

Every musician mixes their own headphones.

YourCue puts your Apollo's cue mixes on any phone or tablet. Nobody has to ask the engineer for more of themselves, and you decide what they can touch.

An iPad on a mic stand showing YourCue's faders for Cue 1, next to an Apollo e2m.
An iPad on a mic stand in my studio: Cue 1, running on an Apollo x16D.

Drag a fader. Then drag away from it.

The further your finger gets from the fader, the finer it moves. You can place a level exactly without lifting your finger, and nothing jumps when you come back.

Try it: hold a fader, slide sideways, and keep going up or down. This is the same behaviour as in the app.

Cue 1

Nothing to install on their device.

  1. Run YourCue on the Mac that runs your Apollo

    It sits in the menu bar and talks to UA's software already on the machine.

  2. Open a link on any phone, tablet or laptop

    Anything with a browser on the studio network. One link per musician, locked to their mix.

  3. They turn themselves up, you keep the rest

    Faders, pan and mute for the channels you show them. Everything else stays yours.

YourCue on a phone: a list of the shared mixes, Cue 1 to Cue 4, to choose from.
The musician picks their mix, or opens a link that goes straight to it.
YourCue on a phone: four channel faders with levels, pan and mute buttons.
Then the mix, as they see it.
YourCue's menu on a phone, with switches for mute buttons and pan, and a list of channels to show or hide.
Each mix chooses its own controls and channels.
YourCue's settings window on the Mac: shared mixes, level limit and connection options.
Settings stay on the studio Mac. Nobody on the network can open them.

You stay in charge of the room.

  • Share only the mixes you chooseA mix you switch off is invisible and untouchable from the network, so a cue feeding other gear stays safe.
  • Set a level ceilingNobody can drag a fader past the limit you set, in dB, to protect ears and monitors.
  • One link per musicianOpens straight into their mix and can't switch to anyone else's.
  • Choose the networkServe the page on one network interface only, such as the studio switch, and keep it off the rest.
YourCue's menu open on an iPad on a mic stand, with an Apollo e2m beside it.

Built to be simple.

I run an Apollo x16D in my Dante-based studio, and I wanted an easy way to control the features I had already paid for from across the room. The system already has up to four cue mixes, so why add external personal mixers and more setup?

So I built an app that runs a very light server on the studio Mac. Musicians connect over Wi-Fi and pick their cue mix. I use it every day.

I'm still testing it to make sure it is stable and safe. If you'd like to try it when it is ready, join the early-access list.

  • A Mac with Apple silicon, running UA's software
  • An Apollo interface (built and tested on an x16D)
  • A phone, tablet or laptop on the same network