BEACN App Version 1.2.44

Release Date – July 23, 2025

Release Notes

Hotkeys, Crossfades, and a Disappearing Profile Drawer!
(and of course a bunch of stability and UI updates too)

We’re very excited to bring Hotkeys to BEACN App!

For quite a while, we’ve been asked for “StreamDeck Integration” or “OBS Integration”. However, how folks wanted to “integrate” was quite muddy when we discussed the feature with our users.

So, we took all of the feedback we got about what outcome folks wanted from BEACN working with StreamDeck and OBS and decided that being able to change your mixer profile with a hotkey would be the best way to move forward.

Hotkeys, combined with a StreamDeck Multi-Action or other streaming software functionality, allows complete audio mix changes alongside whatever other activites you want to perform when streaming, like changing an OBS scene.

Below, you can see a StreamDeck Multi-Action that combines an OBS scene change, BEACN Profile change, and multiple Govee light changes, all on one button.

In addition to controlling Mixer Profile switching, you can now also use hotkeys to toggle between your two selected Personal Listening Devices and toggle the Mute modes that you’ve set up on each mixer channel. Yes, that includes having the ability to mute your mic via hotkey!

To access the hotkey controls, simply click on the setting cogwheel at the bottom of the app window, scroll down, and click the + button across from the action you’d like to assign your hotkey to.

In our quest to assist with improvements to streaming production value, we’ve taken on the mantra of “How do we act as the ‘producer buddy’ in the room, doing things that make your stream feel smoother and more slick but are hard to manage singlehandedly?”

As a part of that mission, we looked at our new hotkey function and asked ourselves “Wouldn’t it sound so much cooler if the audio levels could smoothly glide from one setting to the next?”

So, we set out to add a cross-fade option to our profile switching mechanism. It was a much more complex task than you’d think, but we got there and it sounds great!

You can enable or disable cross-fade between your Mixer Profiles in the settings menu.

This setting also works on channels that are muted in one mixer profile and not on the next (or vise versa) so can can even cross fade to and from “nothing”.

Lots (and lots and lots) of folks have asked us for a way to hide the profiles that exist on the left edge of the BEACN App screen. We agree that the profile area is something that you use sometimes, but would be really nice to boot out of the way too!

The first thing we did was move the profile area from the left side to the right side of the app. That change creates more room for faders to be seen inside a wider window view.

Next, we added a little icon in the top right of the screen to let you show/hide the profile drawer completely.

While Hotkeys, Crossfade, and Profile Drawer hide-a-rama are the leading fun new features for this update, we’ve still been very hard at work spelunking deep down in the app to improve and fix many other bits and pieces. Here’s the list of all the other things in this update:

support.beacn.com

beacn.gg/discord