Your desk, on the Stream Deck.
★★★★★5.0 · 1 verified reviewFaders, mutes, cue, pads, record and monitor, driven directly over the RØDECaster's own control protocol. Two way, live, and built for shows rather than demos.
RØDECaster Duo and Pro IIAny Stream DeckMac and Windows
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A real RØDECaster, a real Stream Deck.
Recording, Smart Pads, the monitor, faders on the Stream Deck + dials, Panic Mute and Restore Faders, all on a RØDECaster Duo. The live demo starts at 2:33.
What RØDE gives you for these two desks.
- RØDE's own Stream Deck integration covers the RØDECaster Video. The Duo and Pro II get nothing at all
- Both desks advertise MIDI, which looks like the obvious route until you try it
- MIDI only reaches part of the mixer, and firmware updates can stop it working until you rework drivers and settings
- On my own desk, two minutes of capture across pad presses and bank changes produced nothing inbound, and the pad and bank messages I sent were ignored
- Which leaves an app on screen as the only way to reach your own mixer, in the middle of a show
"My old MIDI plugin worked. Then the MIDI stopped."
I built a RØDECaster MIDI plugin years ago and people used it happily. Then a firmware update stopped it on my own desk, and even at its best MIDI only ever reached a handful of controls. So Mix Companion does not use MIDI at all.
It speaks the desk's real control protocol instead.
Directly over USB, which is why it can reach parts of the mixer nothing else can. That was a much larger job than a macro layer, and it is the reason the list of controls reads the way it does.
Everything the old plugin could not do.
The first one was a thin MIDI bridge. This is a different kind of thing entirely.
- One way. You pressed a key and hoped it landed
- Keys showed what you last pressed, not what the desk did
- A handful of commands, whatever MIDI happened to expose
- No fader control
- No idea which strips, pads or effects your desk actually had
- At the mercy of firmware updates and drivers
- Two way. The desk leads and the keys follow it
- Keys show what is actually true on the mixer, whoever changed it
- Eighteen actions across strip, monitor, pads, record and FX
- Real fader control on a dial, opt in, with a hand on the fader always winning
- Reads your strips, pads and effect slots live, every session
- No MIDI anywhere in it
Eighteen actions.
Every one is a real key or dial you drag onto your Stream Deck. Mix and match across as many pages and profiles as you like.
Channel strip
Monitoring
Recording, pads and the desk
The keys tell you the truth.
These are the real key faces, not mock ups. Each one is drawn live from the desk's own state, so a key is never showing you the last thing you pressed.
Look at the monitor keys.
The level reads out in dB and percentage as it moves. When the room is muted the key goes red and says so, which is the difference between glancing at your deck and having to look at your desk.
Real key art, rendered by the plugin
The one feature that ships switched off.
Everything else works the moment you install it. Channel level is opt in, and the reason is worth two minutes of your time.
- The RØDECaster exposes no channel level property at all. I dumped every property on a channel and there is no level, fader, volume or gain among them
- The only way to move a level is to borrow that strip from its physical fader for as long as you are driving it. That is not a design choice, it is the only route the hardware offers
- Borrowed strips are handed straight back when you touch the fader, hold the dial, or quit Stream Deck
- But if the software is killed outright in that moment, the fader is left disconnected, and the desk remembers it across a power cycle. Turning it off and on again does not fix it
- It is off until you ask. The dial and volume keys read LOCKED until you tick the box in their settings
- A helper outlives the plugin. While a strip is borrowed a small companion process runs alongside. If the plugin dies for any reason at all, it hands your fader back on its own and then exits
- It repairs on start up. Whatever happened, the next launch checks the desk and puts back anything left outstanding
- Restore Faders. One key, held for a second, gives everything back on demand
- And by hand. The RØDE app's chain icons toggle the very same setting, so a fader can always be restored without this plugin installed at all
- On a Pro II and on a Duo, a strip was taken, then the plugin and Stream Deck were both killed outright with no chance to tidy up
- The fader came back on its own, with nothing else of mine running, every time
- Then the same test again on Windows 11 with a Pro II: plugin and Stream Deck force-closed, fader back on its own
- Every claim on this page was checked against real hardware, with the desk's own reported state read back after each action
What you need.
- A RØDECaster Duo or RØDECaster Pro II, connected by USB
- Any Stream Deck. A Stream Deck + adds dials, which is where the fader control lives
- Stream Deck app version 7.1 or later
- Mac: macOS 12 or later, Apple Silicon or Intel. Signed and notarised, so it installs cleanly
- Windows: Windows 11, 64-bit, on an Intel or AMD processor
- One download covers both. The same file installs on either
Eight pages on what it is, how it behaves, all eighteen actions, and how it was tested.
What buyers say.
The plug in works very well and i am very happy with it. There is a slight hiccup with having to install it each time the app restarts, but this is down to Elgato and not the creator. But this will soon be fixed. But if you need this go purchase it, works very well and the creator is very helpful
All is good and works perfectly! Thanks again for this awesome plugin!
I’m happy to report it is all working again! … Thanks again for your quick responses and excellent customer service.
What a fantastic plugin. Absolutely brilliant.
Your desk, on the Stream Deck.
One-time purchase, no subscription. Buy it on the Elgato Marketplace, Stream Deck installs it for you, and your RØDECaster is on the keys before your next show.
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Questions before or after you buy?Help and supportsupport@creatorcafe.live
If something isn't working.
Most problems have a quick fix below. If yours doesn't, email me and I will help you personally.
- Check the desk is switched on and connected to the computer by USB. The plugin finds it on its own and reconnects if it is unplugged
- Open the RØDECaster App. If it cannot see your desk either, the problem is the USB connection, not the plugin
- Quit Stream Deck completely and open it again
- Mix Companion works with the RØDECaster Duo and RØDECaster Pro II. It does not support the original first-generation RØDECaster Pro or the RØDECaster Video
- That is on purpose. Channel level control ships switched off, for the reasons explained above
- To turn it on, open the settings of a Channel Volume dial or a Volume Up key and tick Let the Stream Deck drive channel levels. It is one switch for the whole plugin
- It will not have damaged your desk. Try these in order, easiest first
- Restart Stream Deck. The plugin repairs it the moment it starts
- Hold the Restore Faders key for one second. It gives every fader back to the desk
- Or fix it by hand. In the RØDE app, use the chain icons on that channel's routing to re-link its sends. This needs no plugin at all
- Turning the desk off and on again will not fix it, because the desk stores this in its show configuration
- support@creatorcafe.live
- Tell me which desk you have, Mac or Windows, your Stream Deck app version, and what you pressed and what happened
- If you can, attach the plugin's log file. You will find it here:
- Mac
~/Library/Application Support/com.elgato.StreamDeck/Plugins/com.neilfarrimond.rodecaster-mix.sdPlugin/logs - Windows
%APPDATA%\Elgato\StreamDeck\Plugins\com.neilfarrimond.rodecaster-mix.sdPlugin\logs