One studio, one pipeline.

The review is this afternoon. The client is at home, the director is in another city, and between them they need to hear your timeline, hear you talking over it, and hear the reference track you are going to pull up in a browser halfway through. None of them is going to install anything, and you are going to be busy mixing.

The Source-Nexus Suite is how that becomes one setup instead of five. You make your own virtual audio device and name it. You patch your desktop applications and your talkback microphone into it outside the DAW. You put one plugin on the master fader, one on a track, and one on the channels you want the transport to gate. Then you send a link. Everything after that is playback.

1. Make your own virtual device. Launch the standalone Source-Nexus Control Panel and click the + (Add) button to create a new virtual device. Give it a descriptive name, such as DAW_To_Broadcast, select the channel count you need, and click Done to register it system-wide so it appears in any application’s audio settings.
2. Sum your desktop sources outside the DAW. Launch the standalone Source-Nexus Router and click Add to build parallel connection lines that combine your local presentation microphone and your desktop applications into a single output path, choosing the device you just created as the destination.
3. Put Source-Nexus Review on the monitor path. In your project, insert the Source-Nexus Review plugin on the final slot of your Master Fader or Monitor Bus, and map its To Nexus Chat lane to the device you created. That merges your timeline mix, your talkback microphone and your desktop audio into one broadcast line.
4. Tap a single track with Source-Nexus I/O. For app-to-track work — recording a live web stream, or feeding a standalone player into an auxiliary channel — put the Source-Nexus I/O plugin on a dedicated DAW track. It bridges audio across applications without touching your master fader setup.
5. Let the transport do the muting. Place Source-Nexus Mute-On on your talkback and communication channel strips and set the primary slot to Broadcaster mode, so that it follows your transport status. When you hit Play or Record it dims your monitors and mutes open microphones, and opens them again when you hit Stop.
6. Open the room your clients will join. Open your browser, log in to your Source-Nexus Gateway room, and in room settings set the primary audio input to your Nexus Broadcast driver node. Send the room invite link to your clients, directors and stakeholders.
7. Run the session. Play the timeline. Your audience hears a full-frequency stereo mix and your talkback in their browsers with nothing installed, and when they speak back their voices arrive through the From Nexus Chat node into your headphones or monitors, isolated from your broadcast path and your record tracks.

• The plugin is in the session but not in the signal path. Each of the three has a first-glance page that names every control: Review, I/O, and Mute-On.
• Mute-On is muting the wrong thing, or nothing. Support publishes the preset list, worked example scenarios, and the Broadcaster page for the mode step 5 asks for.
• You are setting this up for the first time. Every component has a quickstart of its own, and the Source-Nexus Suite hub is where they are listed together.