SonoBus vs Mixaphone

SonoBus is an easy to use application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network. Simply choose a unique group name (with optional password), and instantly connect multiple people together to make music, remote sessions, podcasts, etc. Easily record the audio from everyone, as well as playback any audio content to the whole group. Public groups are also available, for those interested in connecting to new people. Connects multiple users together across the internet to send and receive audio among all in a group, with fine-grained control over latency, quality and overall mix. Use it on your desktop or in your DAW, or on your mobile device. You can also use it locally on your own LAN to send audio among your devices with low latency. Works as a standalone application. as an AudioUnit v3 plugin with a compatible host app, or via Interapp-Audio. You can connect to others using SonoBus on any of the other platforms it runs on. Easy to setup and use, yet still providing all the details that audio nerds want to see. Audio quality can be instantly adjusted from full uncompressed PCM down through various compressed bitrates using the low-latency Opus codec. SonoBus does NOT use any echo cancellation, or automatic noise reduction in order to maintain the highest audio quality. As a result, if you have a live microphone signal you will need to also use headphones to prevent echos and/or feedback. SonoBus does NOT currently use any encryption for the data communication, so while it is very unlikely that it will be intercepted, please keep that in mind. All audio is sent directly between users peer-to-peer, the connection server is only used so that the users in a group can find each other. For best results, and to achieve the lowest latencies, connect your device with wired ethernet to your router. Little known fact, you can use USB ethernet interfaces with your iOS device using the proper adapter (USB camera connection kit, or natively with USB-C apple devices). It *will* work using WiFi, but the added network jitter and packet loss will require you to use a bigger safety buffer to maintain a quality audio signal, which results in higher latencies, which may or may not be acceptable for your use case.

Does your mix hold up on a phone speaker? That's where a lot of people will hear it. Mixaphone sends your mix from your DAW to your phone over Wi-Fi, so you can hear it there while you work. Put the Mixaphone plug-in on your master bus, open this app on the same Wi-Fi and tap your studio. The mix plays from your phone's speaker. No bouncing, no exporting, no sending files to yourself. Move a fader and hear the change on the phone. On good Wi-Fi the delay is short and steady. In our tests the phone played in time with a MacBook's own speakers. Everything is on one screen. Tap your studio to listen and tap Receiving to stop. A meter shows the signal, and the whale sends out sonar rings with the beat. More than one studio on your Wi-Fi? Swipe between them. Stream quality starts on Auto, which adjusts to your Wi-Fi. Prefer a fixed buffer? Pick Low latency, Balanced or Stable in Settings. Keep the app open while you listen. The screen stays on until you stop. Your mix stays on your own Wi-Fi. No account, no ads. This app needs the Mixaphone plug-in, sold separately at humpbackaudio.com. The plug-in runs on a Mac (AU and VST3) and on Windows (VST3), in DAWs such as Logic Pro, GarageBand, Ableton Live, Cubase, FL Studio, Bitwig Studio and REAPER. Your phone and your computer need to be on the same Wi-Fi.