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Founding price · first 25 licenses at $129

Stop renting your monitoring tool.
Buy it once.

The same live, in-browser listening your clients expect — but you own it. $129 once, or 16 monthly payments with 14 days free. No endless subscription.

Buy once — $129 $199 Or try it free — 14 days

Free trial: card required, nothing is charged for 14 days, and we email you before the first payment.

dBaton CUE plugin inside a DAW

Plugin on master bus

dBaton CUE listener view on mobile

Listener view — any browser

How it works

Three steps.
That's it.

🔇 tap for sound
01🎛️

Insert on master bus

Drop dBaton CUE on your master bus in any DAW — Logic, Ableton, Pro Tools, Reaper, Cubase, Studio One. Click Start.

02🔗

Share the link

The plugin generates a unique URL. Send it to your client, artist, label, or A&R — anyone who needs to hear the mix.

03🎧

They listen live

They open the link in any browser — phone, laptop, tablet. Live stereo audio, under half a second behind. Nothing to install.

Features

Professional audio streaming,
no compromises.

🔗 One link, always the same

Your link doesn't change. It's the same link for every project, every session and every meeting — send it to a client once and it works for everything you do together, without ever pasting a new one. Switch projects halfway through a session and they just keep listening. And if you ever do want a fresh one, Reset Link gives you a new link in a click.

🎵 True stereo

Full stereo imaging with independent L/R channels. Hard-pan a synth left — your client hears it in the left speaker. Not downmixed, not summed.

⏱️ Stable playback

An adaptive buffer keeps the stream steady as the network changes. Expect under half a second of delay on a good connection: fine for listening and approvals, not for playing together in real time.

🔒 Private & encrypted

Your audio is always encrypted end-to-end. dBaton CUE automatically selects the optimal connection path for your network — direct (dC1), assisted (dC2), or premium relay (dC3) — to deliver the best quality with minimum latency.

📱 Works everywhere

Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox — desktop and mobile. Your client opens a link. That's it.

🔄 Auto-reconnect

Network drops? The browser reconnects automatically. Switch from WiFi to 4G and it recovers. No refresh needed.

🏷️ Your name on the link

Show your studio's name and logo on the page your client opens, right above the player. They see your studio, not ours. Set it up once and every session after that carries it. How to set it up.

👥 Multiple listeners

Up to 8 simultaneous listeners per session. Send the same link to the artist, the A&R, the manager — everyone hears the same mix.

Why switch

Stop renting.
Start owning.

dBaton CUE
Other services
Pricing model
Pay once, own forever
approx. $8.25–$16.50/month forever
Cost after 2 years
$129 — done
$198–$396 (and counting)
True stereo
✓
✓
Browser listener (no app)
✓
✓
Multiple listeners
Up to 8
Varies by plan
Cancel anytime, keep it
✓ It's yours *
✗ Lose access

Competitor prices converted from USD. Actual prices may vary.

* One-time purchase: yours from day one. Rent-to-own: yours after 16 payments, not necessarily in a row.

Pricing

One product.
No surprises.

One-time · Founding price
$129 $199
Founding price for the first 25 licenses. After that it goes back to $199 and stays there.
+ applicable taxes
  • AU, VST3, AAX
  • macOS & Windows
  • Unlimited sessions
  • Up to 8 simultaneous listeners
  • All v1.x updates included
  • Activate on 3 machines
  • Full refund if it doesn't work on your system, even after activation
  • Direct line to the founder
Buy once — $129
Rent-to-own · 14 days free
$12.50/mo
14 days free, then $12.50/mo. Yours after 16 payments, not necessarily in a row.
+ applicable taxes · $200 total
  • Everything in one-time purchase
  • 14-day free trial included
  • Stop when a project ends, restart for the next one: paid months always count
  • Automatic ownership at payment 16
  • Same license, same features
  • Activate on 3 machines

A card is required. Nothing is charged for 14 days, and we email you before the first payment. Want to own it outright? Buy it once with the same email at any point and the monthly plan stops by itself. Same licence key.

Start free — 14 days

By activating dBaton CUE you expressly consent to immediate digital content delivery and waive your right of withdrawal under EU consumer law (Directive 2011/83/EU, Art. 16(m)). Unactivated copies may be returned within 14 days. See Refund Policy.

Compatibility

Works with your DAW.

AUAudio Unit
VST3Steinberg
AAXPro Tools
macOS 13.0+ (Ventura)
Universal (Apple Silicon & Intel)
Windows 10+

Logic · Ableton · Pro Tools · Reaper · Cubase · Studio One · and more

What people are saying

Baze Nastevski
“Just what I needed after years routing bananas and potatoes.”
Baze Nastevski Composer & Pianist
Matt de Vallejo
“Before dBaton CUE, I'd record drums and send a rough premix. Half the time I'd have to reopen the session and rerecord. Now it happens in one pass, real-time. The most practical solution for remote sessions — no subscription.”
Matt de Vallejo Session drummer, Logic · Aitana, Mónica Naranjo, Carlos Escobedo
Héctor Muñoz
“A simple, direct way to share high-quality sound with my clients. Sharing screen and sound over Zoom or Google Meet is a bit of a mess. This solves it instantly.”
Héctor Muñoz Composer & Pianist, Cubase
Ivan Lekic
“Cue lets me share my work with clients, colleagues, and musicians wherever they are: another studio, home, or on the go, on their phone or with headphones. Everyone can take part in the creative process. And the visual personalization for the studio is fantastic.”
Ivan Lekic Sound Production, AS STUDIOTON

Your clients deserve
to hear it live.

Pay once, it's yours.

Buy once — $129 (founding price) or try it free — 14 days

FAQ

Common questions.

Yes, a little: under half a second on a good connection, and it stays stable. CUE is a listening stream, not a jamming tool: your client hears what your DAW is playing a moment after you hit play. For an approval session that doesn't matter: you talk on the phone, they judge the audio on the stream. If you need to play together in real time, CUE is the wrong tool.
No. CUE goes one way: out of your DAW, into their browser. There is no return feed. That is the trade that makes everything else work — the person listening installs nothing, signs up for nothing and doesn't even need a DAW, and audio coming back would mean a plugin and a session on their side too. If what you need is a two-way link between two studios, that's a different job and there are tools built for it, like Source-Connect. They sit together well: the two-way link for whoever is playing, CUE for everyone else who just needs to hear the mix on a phone.
A dedicated music stream — not the audio path of a video call. No noise suppression, no voice optimisation, no automatic ducking of whatever the software decides isn't speech. That is the whole difference: your client hears the balance, the low end and the automation, and can give you real notes on a real mix instead of guessing. CUE is built for judging a mix, not for delivering one — when they need the actual file, send them the file.
Usually, yes. CUE picks the best route it can on its own: dC1 connects you and your client directly, and when a network blocks that — corporate firewalls often do — it falls back automatically to our assisted routes, dC2 and dC3, so the session still happens. Your client installs and configures nothing either way, and you don't choose: CUE does. If their IT team wants to clear the path in advance, write to us and we'll send them exactly what they need. And if a session matters, test the link the day before — it takes thirty seconds.
If your DAW loads VST3, AU or AAX plugins on the master bus, yes — Logic, Cubase, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Studio One, REAPER and virtually every modern DAW. CUE is a plugin, not a separate app, so there's no loopback routing or virtual audio device to set up: insert it on your master, copy the link, send it. It runs on macOS 13 or later and Windows 10 or later.
CUE is built for approval sessions, not broadcasts. In practice that means a director, an editor, a producer or two — a handful of people who need to hear the cue and give notes now. Eight simultaneous listeners covers that comfortably. If you need to stream to a crowd, CUE is the wrong tool.
Your audio is encrypted from your machine to your client's browser, and it stays encrypted even when it travels over one of our assisted routes — we cannot listen in on it. Nothing is recorded and nothing is stored on our servers: the stream is live, and when it ends it is gone. Password-protected links are on our roadmap; they are not in the product today, and we won't promise a date.
Your trial starts the rent-to-own plan: 14 days free, then $12.50/mo, and it's yours after 16 payments, not necessarily in a row. Nothing is charged for 14 days, and we email you before the first payment. Prefer to own it outright? Buy it once with the same email at any point: the monthly plan stops by itself and your licence key stays the same.
The first 25 licenses are $129 instead of $199 — a thank-you to the first 25 people who back a new tool. Founding buyers also get my direct email. When those 25 are gone, the price returns to $199 and stays there. This is not a recurring sale.
Yes, to start. Nothing is charged for 14 days, and we email you before the first payment.
No charge. Simple as that.
Yes. Buy once for $129 and it's yours. If CUE doesn't work on your system (macOS 13+ or Windows 10+), you get a full refund within 14 days, activated or not. Unactivated copies can be returned within 14 days for any reason.
Sign in at dbaton.com/cue/purchases and click “Open billing portal”: you can stop the plan, change your card or download invoices. Stopping doesn't reset anything. Restart later with the same email and you carry on where you left off, same licence key.
Yes. Paddle is our payment processor (Merchant of Record) and appears as “PADDLE.NET” or similar on statements. If you don't recognize a charge, visit paddle.net to look it up, or contact support@dbaton.com.
In your Paddle billing portal, accessible via “Open billing portal” on dbaton.com/cue/purchases.