Mixing Intern is a Mac app that drives your mixing console from the service you already planned. Songs, people and cues come in from Planning Center, ProPresenter and MIDI; scenes, levels, effects and routes go out to the board — so whoever is at the desk can listen to the room instead of chasing faders.
Mixing Intern sits between the tools your team already uses and the console at the back of the room.
Pull in the service
Import the plan from Planning Center: the running order, every song with its key, tempo and leader, and who’s on the team. Singers land on their mics and the band on their inputs.
Every item becomes a scene
Each song, prayer and message is a scene with its own faders, mutes, sends, effects and routes — and each person brings their own EQ, dynamics and gain to whichever channel they’re on.
Run the service
Scenes cross-fade in from a click, a ProPresenter slide or a MIDI cue. The app shows what’s drifted, can record every song, and keeps an eye on the room’s level.
Features
Everything the person at the board needs
Built over real Sundays at a working church: the parts of running sound that are repetitive, easy to forget, or hard to see from the desk.
Scenes from the service plan
The running order is the show file. No more building scenes by hand on Saturday night.
Planning Center import. Songs with their key, tempo, length and leader, plus the team, straight from the plan.
Smooth recalls. Faders, mutes, DCAs and effects cross-fade over each scene’s own time — switches land without a pop.
Sub-scenes and carry-over. Song parts nest under their song, and each week’s scenes pick up last week’s setup.
Drift. See which channels have moved since the recall; keep or discard them one by one or all at once.
Services Live. Recalls move Planning Center Live along, with an ahead/behind and end-of-service estimate.
People, not channel numbers
Settings follow the person, so a singer sounds like themselves on whichever mic they pick up.
Players. Gain, trim, 48 V, polarity, EQ, compressor, name and insert travel with each person.
Roles. A Lead role keeps its own EQ, and each song’s leader steps into it on recall.
Never a surprise. Picking a player asks first if it would overwrite something dialled in by hand.
Routes and talkback
One tap puts a mic where it needs to go — and only there.
Channel routes. Save where a channel goes — mixes, mains, matrices, effects and insert — and switch in one tap.
Talkback. Hold a stage button and that mic goes to its talkback route; the booth sees who’s calling.
Route Buttons. A simple network API lets a button box hold a mic on a route, like a handheld to in-ears only.
Recording and virtual soundcheck
Songs record themselves, channel by channel, and play back through the console.
Channel Recorder. A 24-bit track per channel from the console’s USB or Dante feed — on demand, or every song automatically.
Over Dante. On an Avantis, it borrows a spare Dante output for a channel that isn’t sent, and checks Dante Virtual Soundcard is subscribed one for one first.
Play it back. Send a take back through its own channels to try an EQ midweek; Stop puts the mics back.
Find anything. Search takes by song, person or date.
Room level you can defend
Measure what the room actually hears, against your church’s own policy, and keep a record of it.
Policy metrics. Max SPL (A, slow), the loudest 10-minute average and the bass (C–A) delta, from a measurement mic.
Targets by moment. Each scene and each kind of event — Sunday, evening, rental — has its own limits.
Service log. Pass or fail for every service, a complaint snapshot with the exact levels, and a one-tap trim when someone says it’s too loud.
Every input at a glance
Catch the dying battery before the sermon does.
Shure wireless. Battery, RF, audio, clipping and interference for SLX-D, QLX-D and ULX-D, linked to their channels.
Input dashboard. Wired and wireless inputs together, with meters, an optimal-level band and a needs-attention list.
Move a cable. Re-patch an input to another socket; its name, gain, 48 V and patches go with it, and it can be undone.
A real channel editor
Drag the curve. Visual EQ, gate and compressor for channels and mixes, plus effects.
See the sound. Measure a channel’s spectrum and draw it behind the EQ, before or after.
Mixes and effects. Bus masters, sends, returns and effect parameters, with delays locked to the song’s tempo.
Pop-safe phantom. 48 V switches with the gain faded down first, so nothing thumps the PA.
Claude at the desk
Ask Claude about the board in plain words, from Claude Desktop or Claude Code on the same Mac.
Sees and measures. Channels, players, scenes, meters, the service plan — and what a channel actually sounds like.
You set the limits. Five permission tiers, from read-only up; the risky ones are off and always ask.
Small, reversible moves. Changes are capped, logged, undoable and rolled back if the room goes over target — try one A/B first.
Show control and automation
Hook the board into the rest of the room.
ProPresenter. A presentation, slide, section or countdown going live recalls its scene.
MIDI. Learn any controller for recall, next and previous; scenes can send cues of their own.
Signal webhooks. Tell an ON AIR light or a recorder when a channel starts or stops carrying signal.
Consoles
Five consoles, one honest matrix
Every console speaks to the app through the same model, so scenes, people and routes work the same way on each. What differs is what each board lets a remote app do — and we say exactly what’s been tested on real hardware.
Each integration is optional and switches on in Settings. Turned off, it costs nothing.
Wireless Mics
Shure Wireless
Battery, RF and audio health for SLX-D / QLX-D / ULX-D receivers.
Room Measurement
Audio Meter (SPL / RTA)
Measure auditorium SPL and frequency balance from a dedicated audio feed.
Recording
Channel Recorder
Record channels from the console’s audio feed (USB or Dante) to disk — a snippet on demand, or every song — and play them back through the console to try EQs on.Needs channel recording — on every console
Show Control
MIDI Control
Trigger scene recalls from any MIDI source — a keyboard, ProPresenter, the console's MIDI out.
ProPresenter
Trigger scenes from slide changes and countdown timers on the presentation machine.
Spotify
Remote-control the Spotify app playing walk-in music: playlist, play/pause, skip.
Talkback Pad
Talkback Buttons route a mic to its Talkback route while held; a MacroPad, by USB or Wi-Fi, flashes who's calling.Needs send on/off switches — not on the CQ-18T
Planning & Scheduling
Planning Center
Connect Planning Center to pull the service plan, songs, and people.
Automation
Signal Webhooks
POST to LAN devices when a channel starts or stops carrying signal.Needs channel input meters — not on the SQ
Route Buttons
Let a button box on the network hold a channel on a saved route — a handheld to in-ears only.Needs send on/off switches — not on the CQ-18T
Claude (MCP)
Let Claude on this Mac see the board and measure what a channel is doing — you choose what it may touch. Set-up steps appear right here once it’s on.
Safe at the board
Built never to surprise the board
A sound board on a Sunday morning is no place for surprises. The app is careful by design.
Read-only until you say so
Every launch starts in Read-Only. Editing scenes, people and shows takes a deliberate switch to Programming.
Only writes what it has read
Scenes capture only values confirmed from the console, so a recall never pulls a fader down over a value it never saw.
Undo, and ask first
A scene save can be undone, deletes ask first, and a cable move reads back every write and can be reversed.
Fails safe on air
If a watched insert goes silent mid-service, the channel falls back to a safe route on its own.
Honest about every console
Features a board can’t back are hidden, with the reason — never offered and then quietly failing.
Off means off
Every integration can be switched off in Settings, and an off one opens no connections, runs no timers and shows nothing.
Will it work on your board?
Check every capability, console by console — tested, built but untested, planned, or not possible, and why.
Mixing Intern