MGS Audio desktop 1.5: soundboards, the phone remote, Stream Deck and Hue lights

2026-11-01

Soundboards: a grid of pads you fire with a click or the keys 1 to 9 then 0, over everything that plays. "Stop pads" silences them, the music keeps going.
113 ready-made soundboards in 18 families: one per D&D class with its spells (by school for the longest lists), the fighter, barbarian, rogue and monk with their attacks, then weapons, damage types, monsters, the dungeon, magic, the table, nature, modern and science fiction. Add one to your playlists to make it yours.
One-shots that come back: put a sound effect in an ambience mix and choose how often it returns, every 20 to 60 seconds, every 5 to 10 minutes, or a length you type ("22 s", "2:45", "30 min").
Variants: a pad or a one-shot can hold up to 16 takes of its sound, and plays a different one each time, never the one just heard. A numbered series is added in one click.
57 ready-made mixes, from the crowded tavern to a starship's bridge, through steampunk and the post-apocalypse: each with its ambience, its sound effects that come back and its light. Play them as they are, or add one to your playlists and change it.
Up to 12 ambiences at once (was 8). A "Looping SFX" filter in the Library.

Turn on the remote control, scan its QR code, and your phone plays your playlists, mixes and pads on the same Wi-Fi. A second press stops what plays. The phone shows which mix is playing.
Players' soundpads: a second code for your players. They see only the soundboards you share with them ("Players can use these pads"), at their own volume, with a wait between two pads of the same phone. On their phone, they star their favourite pads.
A Stream Deck plugin comes with the app ("Install the Stream Deck plugin"): keys for a playlist or a mix (lit while it plays), a pad, pause, stop all, stop pads, next and previous.

With Philips Hue lamps, each mix gives the room its light when it starts: 36 colours and whites in families, or a colour of your own, and the lamps' own effects (fire, candle…).
A sound can light the room as it plays: lightning, a pulse of colour, darkness, a breath, a blink, an alarm. The thunder of a storm brings its lightning, at the moment you hear it.
Live lights: with an entertainment area made in the Hue app, the effects cross the room lamp after lamp (a torch passing, an explosion, a wave of magic, a power failure, a heartbeat), and the brightness can follow the sound. A lamp can stay a table light, steady and readable.

A guided tour at the first launch, replayed from the compass at the top.
The Playlists sidebar has a tab per kind: Playlists, Mixes, Boards. Double-click a playlist or a mix there to play it.