Roland’s Go: Mixer Studio turns your phone into a mobile music studio

Roland now offers an even more capable audio mixer for phones and tablets with the launch of Go: Mixer Studio. Go:Mixer’s audio interface suite has always been a bit limited, better suited for sporadic live streaming and capturing quick demos on their phones rather than professional recording. Go: Mixer Studio is an attempt to actually reach that lofty goal, with more inputs, outputs, built-in effects, and up to 24-bit/192kHz audio. There’s also an iOS app that allows you to capture multi-track video and audio simultaneously.

Live streaming and social video are still the main use cases here. The Go: Mixer Studio can also be mounted on a microphone stand so you can keep it close at hand during a live session. The screen and knobs let you control all the parameters on the Go: Mixer Studio directly, but there’s also a desktop app for Windows and MacOS that gives you full control of the mixer remotely.

There are plenty of connections, including two XLR inputs on the back with phantom power, a 1/4-inch instrument input for connecting guitar or bass directly, 1/4-inch stereo jacks, and an aux input. There’s also a 1/8-inch TRS MIDI input and output, two headphone jacks, and stereo line outs for connecting to studio monitors. Each audio input has a dedicated equalizer and compressor on the channel. Echo is also available in XLR and plug-ins.

Go: Mixer Studio is available now for $299.