Mixing Intelligence. It reads your session, tells you what it hears, and makes the moves in Ableton. On your Mac. Nothing leaves it.
MEASURED, NOT GUESSED
Every plugin gives three different vocals the same five numbers. MIXSTEIN measures your session first, tells you what it heard and why the move, then makes it in Ableton's own devices on your track.
It sweeps every pair in the session and tells you which two tracks collide, and at what frequency, before you reach for an EQ.
Every clip on the vocal, every event, measured against the words around it. Pops land at the words. Esses sit 7 dB under. Then it pulls them down the way my hand does.
Loudness-matched to your reference, band by band. Every move ships with its reason: what it heard, why this device, what you'll hear.
I've had chromesthesia my whole life: sound arrives as color, and it drives real mixing decisions. MIXSTEIN was taught that way, so the Box paints what it hears while it reads. Not decoration. The same read, in the language I actually think in.
MIXSTEIN itself. Reads your mix, tells you what it hears, makes one move.
Every move. Every feel as it lands, founder-only ones included.
Everything, plus me. Direct line. Your mixes get my actual ear.
The engine is mine and it runs on your Mac. There's no token bill running while you mix, and nothing breaks when some AI company changes its pricing.
You download it, you install it, you mix. Nobody's server has to be up for your session to open.
Not your audio, not your session, not your prompts. Your unreleased records stay on your drive. That isn't a compromise. It's the feature.
Nothing. The beta is free. Your founding price locks today and billing starts only when MIXSTEIN ships for real, and you'll get written notice before that happens.
No date. It ships when it's undeniable, not when it's early. Founders hear first.
No. It reads the session, tells you what it heard and why, and makes the moves an engineer would make, in your devices, where you can see and change every one. You decide.
Because I hear in color. Chromesthesia: sound shows up as color, and it's driven my mixing decisions for 38 years. MIXSTEIN learned that alongside the numbers, so when it reads your mix, the field behind the controls paints what it heard. The numbers are still there for anyone who wants them.
Wave two. Lock your spot now and you hear first. Wave one is Ableton Live Suite, or Standard with Max for Live, on Apple Silicon.
None of the three. The engine runs on your Mac and nothing about your session leaves it.
MIDI tracks aren't read yet, audio tracks are. There's no chat box yet. One DAW first. Linux isn't planned.
There's an install page with a video, and one pinned thread in The Board Room where every question gets answered in public so the next person doesn't have to ask.