Latency that breaks the groove
When audio lags, the bass lands a beat late and the snare floats off the grid. Remio's audio travels with the picture in one session, tight enough to hear whether a kick sits on the downbeat while you mix.
✦Music production
Remote music production — tour bus to home studio in one tap. Your studio Mac, on the road.
The full plugin chain, real Logic, Ableton and Pro Tools — with 48 kHz low-latency audio in sync with every scroll of the timeline. Your Waves, UAD and Slate licences stay on the studio Mac; the iPad just shows the session.
48 kHz
native audio rate
In sync
audio with the picture
120 fps
timelines scroll smooth
0
licences to move
✦Audio routing
An audio path built for music, not for Zoom.
Office remote tools treat audio as an afterthought — buffer it, resample it, downmix it, sync it loosely to video. That's fine for a call where 200 ms is invisible; it fails the moment you press play on a session timed to the millisecond. Remio's audio path was built alongside the video stream, so the sound arrives in sync with the picture — tight enough that long-form mix work is possible from a kitchen table.
You hear your studio Mac's own audio output — in sync with the screen.
Most remote tools forget audio is real-time, too.
The four ways office remote-desktop tools break a mix — and how Remio's path avoids each one.
Drift that ruins a long mix
Audio that drifts away from the picture ruins a long mix — over a 3-hour session, automation looks wrong and mute points land in the wrong bar. Remio streams your Mac's audio in sync with the screen, so the timeline you see is the one you hear.
Resampling that softens the top end
Office tools resample 48 kHz down to whatever the OS wants — cymbals lose air, reverb tails go dull. Remio streams at 48 kHz, the rate most sessions are built for, then lets the client's DAC do the analog conversion.
Shortcuts that get eaten
Most remote tools swallow the keystrokes a DAW lives on — Space, R, Cmd+Z, modifier chords. Remio forwards the full keyboard, modifier-accurate, so transport, tools and plugin windows answer to the same muscle memory you use in the studio.
✦Session control
The studio session, now on the bus.
Your MIDI rig stays where it sounds best — plugged into the studio Mac, powered, and already mapped to your DAW. Remio puts the whole session around it in your hands: arrange, comp, mix, tweak plugin chains and ride the transport from a hotel room, hearing the 48 kHz monitor mix in sync with the screen. Need to actually play from the road? Pair Remio with macOS's built-in Network MIDI (rtpMIDI) and let each tool do the thing it's built for.
The full keyboard forwards too — every DAW shortcut, modifier-accurate.
✦Plugin chain
Your Waves, UAD and Slate licences do not travel.
A serious mixing studio has thousands of dollars of licences tied to specific machines, dongles or cloud accounts. Remio sidesteps the problem: the licences stay on the studio Mac; the iPad is just a screen.
iLok, USB key, cloud auth
Slate, Waves, Antares and UAD all use iLok, USB keys, or machine-bound licences. Remio moves none of them. The dongle stays plugged into the studio Mac; the iPad opens the streamed DAW and every plugin authorises as normal. Cloud auth (Waves Cloud, iLok Cloud) behaves normally too.
Hardware DSP plugins
UAD-2 Satellite, Apollo Quad, Antelope FPGA, SSL Native — DSP that runs on dedicated hardware executes on the gear attached to the studio Mac. The streamed DAW shows the plugin UIs and routes audio through the DSP exactly as a local session would. Latency through the DSP is unchanged; nothing about that path goes through Remio.
The client mic stays out of the signal path
Remio doesn't forward the client's microphone into the host DAW as an input device. For scratch vocals, voice memos and producer talkback, use the Mac's built-in mic or a real mic on the host interface.
The monitor mix stays in sync
Remio streams your Mac's system audio to the client in sync with the picture — press play in the DAW and the monitor mix arrives right on the beat, no separate call or conferencing app to route around. With Remio Pro you can also choose which speaker the studio Mac plays through, or silence its speakers while you listen on your device.
✦Real workflows
Three sessions, three places, one studio.
Composited from real conversations with users. Names abstracted, software versions and hardware specs preserved.
Logic Pro mixing on iPad
A mix engineer runs Logic Pro on an M1 Mac Studio with a UAD Apollo x8p, a Quad Satellite and an iLok of ~60 licences. On the train she pairs her iPad Pro and keeps mixing — the mixer fills the iPad, plugins open in floating windows, and the Apollo's preamps and DSP reverbs behave normally.
Ableton set prep on tour
An electronic producer keeps his Ableton rig on a MacBook Pro 16" at home with a Push 3, a Komplete Kontrol S88 and a 4 TB library. On tour he opens Ableton through Remio on his iPad, edits the set's drum patterns with pad-style taps, then leaves the session to render at home overnight.
Pro Tools post from home
A dialogue mixer keeps Pro Tools Ultimate on a Mac Pro with HDX cards. From home she opens an iPad Pro 13", joins the session and runs the dialogue passes on her own time — the HDX hardware does the DSP, the client is just a screen.
✦Questions
Questions producers ask first
Direct answers, no marketing detour.
What's the audio latency?
Audio travels over the same session as the picture, so it arrives in step with the screen. We don't publish a separate audio-latency figure. It is fine for mixing decisions, arrangement, vocal comping, edit work and checking a mix remotely — not for live monitoring while tracking. For tracking, the artist sits at the studio Mac and monitors through the host interface directly.
Does MIDI work from a remote keyboard?
No — Remio doesn't carry MIDI. It forwards the full keyboard, mouse and trackpad. Keep controllers plugged into the studio Mac, or pair Remio with macOS's built-in Network MIDI (rtpMIDI) when you need to play remotely — Remio gives you the screen, the audio and full session control around it.
Will my plugins (UAD, Waves, Slate) keep working?
Yes. Every plugin installed on the studio Mac continues to work — Remio doesn't touch the plugin chain. UAD with Apollo or Satellite, Waves licences (USB or cloud), Slate iLok, NI Komplete — all stay on the studio machine. The iPad doesn't need any of these installed.
Does sample rate matter?
Remio's audio path is 48 kHz native. 44.1 kHz sessions resample at the host the same as previewing a 44.1 session through 48 kHz monitoring. 88.2 / 96 / 192 kHz sessions play back at full quality on the host; the streamed monitor mix is resampled to 48 kHz.
Can I record from the iPad mic?
No — Remio streams your studio Mac's system audio to the client in sync with the screen, but the client's microphone isn't forwarded to the host as an input device. For scratch vocals or talkback, use the Mac's built-in mic or plug a real microphone into the host's interface directly.
Will my UAD Apollo or other interface work?
The interface stays plugged into the host studio Mac — that's where it does its work. UAD Apollo, RME Babyface, Apogee Duet, MOTU UltraLite all continue to drive the host's audio routing. What streams to the iPad is the studio Mac's own audio output, in sync with the screen — the same audio your DAW sends to its output device.
Your studio Mac, wherever the inspiration is.
Install Remio Host on the studio Mac with the Apollo, the iLok and the plugin chain, the client on the iPad you take on tour, and pair once with a QR code or a Device ID and PIN — free, no account, no card.
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