A dropped network cannot stop a show
Once a show is loaded, GO, sequencing, timing, fades and crossfades all happen on your machine. Unplug the building and keep going.
Local-first show control
Your show.
Every cue.
Right on time.
StageMix is professional audio playback for theatre, dance, worship, conferences and events — built so that when you press GO in front of an audience, the right sound plays at the right moment, at the right level, whether or not the building has Wi-Fi.
- Runs offline
- once a show is loaded
- Audio stays put
- nothing is uploaded
- In the browser
- nothing to install
Show Mode
A Midsummer Night’s Dream · Act IStanding by
1Pre-show playlist
Fade under as house lights go
Active cues
- Nothing playing. Press GO to start the show.
Interactive preview of the real interface. It does not play audio.
Easy enough for a teacher to learn.
Reliable enough for a technician to trust.
Most show-control software asks you to learn a profession before you can play a doorbell. Most soundboards cannot crossfade two pieces of music without a fight. StageMix is built for the enormous middle ground: schools, churches, dance schools, awards evenings, community theatre and touring productions that need the real thing without the week of training.
Your audio stays on your device
StageMix never uploads your show audio. The optional cloud backup stores the cue list and what files it expects — never the files.
Scheduled on the audio clock
Cues are scheduled against the audio hardware's own clock, not a JavaScript timer, so an auto-follow lands where it should even under load.
A cue list you can read
Auto-continue and auto-follow explained in plain words, with the consequence shown next to the setting rather than hidden in a manual.
Panic that does one thing
Stop All silences every cue and cancels everything pending. It never touches your cue list, so you can carry straight on.
Keyboard first, safely
Space is GO. It will not fire while you are typing in a field — not in a cue name, not in a note, not in a search box.
Crossfades
Two pieces of music. One control.
Pick the cue to fade out, set how long each side takes, and how much they overlap. StageMix uses an equal-power curve by default, which is the shape that keeps the level steady through the middle instead of sagging the way two linear fades do.
No automation cues to chain together. No fader envelopes to draw.
| Cue | Name | Type | After it fires | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Scene change music | Audio | Auto-follow | Playing |
| 13 | Wait — 2.0 s | Wait | Auto-continue | Ready |
| 14 | Fade 12 out over 4 s | Fade | Select next | Ready |
| 15 | Applause | Audio | Do nothing | Ready |
Cue list
Eight cue types. No jargon tax.
Audio, Group, Wait, Fade, Stop, Pause, Note and Go-to. Each one says what it will do next in words, and StageMix checks the whole list before you run it — a fade pointing at a deleted cue, an auto-follow on a loop that never ends, a Go-to with nowhere to go.
- Pre-wait and post-wait on every cue
- Groups that fire together or one after another
- Operator notes shown where you need them, in Show Mode
Waveform
Trim where you can see it
StageMix reads your file and draws its actual waveform. Set the start and end, drag the fades, mark the loop. Every edit is non-destructive — the file on your disk is never written to.
Cue Cart
For everything that is not in the script
Applause, stings, bells, buzzers, walk-on music. Big labelled pads with their own hotkeys, playing independently of the cue list — which is what makes StageMix work for an awards night as well as a play.
Applause1
Sting2
Bell3
Buzzer4
Laughter5
Walk-on6
Transition7
Fanfare8
The internet is not part of your show
StageMix installs as an app and keeps your loaded shows on the machine. There is no server call on GO, no database query between cues, and no licence check that can interrupt a performance. If a subscription lapses mid-show, the show carries on — plan limits apply when you are editing and syncing, never when you are running.
Preload Show
Decodes what the show needs before the house opens, inside a memory budget rather than all at once.
Show Check
Confirms every file is present, decodes in this browser, and every cue points somewhere real.
Autosave and versions
A crash costs seconds. Label a snapshot for the dress and restore it later.
Updates wait
If a new version arrives during Show Mode, StageMix tells you afterwards. It never reloads under you.
When the house is in and you press GO, nothing should be a surprise.
That is the whole of StageMix’s design brief.