Ideas, Requests, and Feedback

The ability to control profiles and other elements from the Stream Deck or at least through hotkeys would be very helpful. I have different stream layouts that I trigger using multi-step commands on my Stream Deck, which include BEACN profiles. Right now, I have to remember to make the profile switches in the BEACN software manually.

VST support: You already mentioned this in the roadmap, but it would still be good if you could equip your mics with EQs etc. in your software without having to use other software. Background change from BEACN: On your website you could already see another design + white/dark mode. Wouldn't it be cool to create your own "BEACN MIX/Create" in the software... Third-party support: I'll take Elagto as an example, it would be cool if there were third-party software for developers to make the beacn even more practical, with multiple backgrounds, software integrations or plugins in general. Mix Create 2: That came to my mind spontaneously when I saw the shape of the BEACN Mix Create. Wouldn't it be cool if there was a "counterpart" to the "L" shape? ;D These are my ideas to make your good products even better!

Hey, I am a developer, and I LOVE to tweak a bit on everything and everything automated, so I would like the possibility of having a beacn API that would allow you to interact with the hardware to change sound levels, change profiles automatically (by pressing on a button of the streamdeck to change scene for example, change my audio level) etc...

Expand Knob functionality outside of BEACN For example being able to pause/resume media playback on knob press and skipping or going back to a previous track with knob rotation Or best solution to this all: let us make custom functionalities our self via developer options like a python library or other options Inspiration on how to do this could easily be gained from the Streamdeck

If you could make it so that for the BEACN Mix Create, you could create voice changer options like autotune, alien voice, reverb, announcer, walkitalkie, stuff like this and make them assignable to a button on the Mix Create, that would be incredible. I love to mess with my chat on twitch or my friends in game and it adds to the atmosphere and humor. It would be really cool if I could just assign the voice changers to their on button on the mix create. I would love it if these were features from BEACN not a company like "Voicemod" as i dont need a million different voice changing options but either a few standard options with more to be added over time. This would be an incredible piece for the software and the BEACN Mix Create.

It would be useful to have a "master" volume knob/control that would allow the beacn mix device to attenuate/scale the volume for all other mix channels. This is something that the Windows volume mixer has, as well as many games and other programs. This improvement would make it easy to scale all audio up or down.

By mapping profiles to specific OBS scenes, it would mean that switching scenes in OBS could adjust your audio levels automatically! Imagine that swapping to your "BRB" scene will mute your system sounds and mic, but still have your music playing! Or swapping to your "Game" scene in OBS has your game volume at level that's just perfect for the stream. You get the idea - easy automation for one-person streamers without needing a producer! ;-).

I just watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd34BU-BcHo video when trying to figure out how to make Dolby Headphone work properly with my Mix Create and BEACN Mic. While this video goes over the benefits of discreet control of, say, the Game Output versus everything output from the Mic, it seems to ignore that folks may switch between headphones and speakers. If users want to use Dolby Headphone with headphones, and not speakers, (as generally recommended) currently BECAN requires changing Windows settings for the outputs, assuming you don't want to give up discreet control between things mentioned in the video such as Music and Games. Currently, if "Game" is set to Dolby Headphone output, it will be so for both headphone and speaker use. User added knobs such as Hardware or Aux (2) aren't added to the windows settings (and don't allow for custom names), so it's not as if users can create a new channel for gaming on speakers versus headphones (and name it something like "Speaker Gaming" and specifically set that up in Windows NOT to use Dolby Headphone. I'd like to see BECAN allow users to create and name their own outputs, and have those outputs show up in Windows like Game, Music, Browser, etc. do currently. This would allow users to only need to set things up once to use BEACN devices (with Dolby Headphone for headphones and not speakers) for whichever outputs they prefer. It could also serve to meet other needs users may have for different use cases. This would be especially useful if BEACN allowed users to tie changing mixer profiles to the long press of any knob when switching between personal mix outputs. That is probably something BEACN should do anyhow, simply because volume alone isn't consistent between output devices [speakers, headphones, etc.] If BEACN made these changes users would be able to set up Dolby Headphone for use with headphones, and not to be used with speakers, and it could happen automatically when long pressing a knob to switch personal mix outputs. Anything short of this mean users will have to make some sort of on the fly adjustments (either to Windows or BEACN settings) to transition between Dolby Headphone (use with headphones) and use without Dolby Headphone (with speakers), as generally recommended. Perhaps if this is considered and imprinted other requests could be implemented simultaneously, such as assigning a long press on a particular knob to a specific profile.

When you change the name of a BEACN Audio Group like Browser, it also shows that name in the Windows Audio Settings.

When adding a new device to the BEACN Mix/Mix Create have a visible icon for all the Audio Devices you've added.

This would make it so the new Audio connected (Game, Browser, etc) will show close to one of the buttons on the BEACN Mix/Mix Create and with the push of the button associated with the Audio Routing Table it would place it there in one click. So, if you had a game that wasn't routed it would show up on the Mix/Mix Create and you could click the Games Button to add it without going into the software.

Currently does not support any Linux platform.

Running a Windows Service would allow for the Mix/Mix Create to continue functioning even if the application isn't running. Additionally Windows services can be configured to automatically restart themselves if they fail for some reason, unlike the Beacn application.

Custom themes was something that's been repeatedly promised in forms but I've yet to see. This would be a great feature that I think many assume this device would already have. Also, and more importantly to me anyway, being able to see which output device is selected on the display would be very nice. I swap between headphones and speakers a lot, it would be nice to not have to refer to the app on PC to know which one it's going to use.

In my opinion the sidebar takes up way to much useful space inside of the Beacn App. A way to compress it to a smaller formfactor or completely woud be amazing and give you room to see even more sources at once. Most people probably use 1 - 3 profiles anyways. I personally need just one and the basically full unused space kind of feels wasted. :) I created an example on how that could look. Of course this is by no means a professional Interface design, but i thought a visual concept could help!