After you've opened the web app once with a connection, you can build your plot, edit it, and open your saved shows offline. Purchases, account features, sharing, and all console-file import and export require a connection, on every platform including the iPhone and iPad app.

ONE RECORD IN → EVERYTHING OUT

load·in: Native Files for Audio Consoles.

Q: What does load·in do?

load·in turns a rider, a typed list, a spreadsheet, a photo of a list, or a desk file into one record of the show, then builds a stage plot, an input list, your desk's own native file, and crew-ready documents from it.

Q: What does it cost?

The Free tier includes up to 3 saved plots (enter your email in the app to unlock unlimited plots), watermarked PDF and PNG exports, CSV export, and one native export to any desk. Your first desk is $19.99 one-time with Soundcheck; each further desk is $6.99. If your desk won’t load the file, we refund you.

Type a rider, scan one, drop in a spreadsheet or a photo of a list, or import your desk's own file — load·in builds one record of the show, then writes your desk's own native file, the PDF input list, the labels, and the plot from it.

Open load·in — Free, No Signup →

Edit your plot and open your saved shows offline once you've loaded it. No sign-in required to try it.

File safety policy

Console files are handled conservatively. Supported same-console imports and exports start from the imported source and patch only the fields identified in the export preview. Unedited source data is preserved by the tested workflow, and unrecognized structures are refused. Cross-desk generation starts from a supported target template and does not imply full-setting translation. Always verify the result in the current official editor or on the target desk before show use.

Preamp gain is never part of that translation, on any workflow. It always stays exactly as the engineer set it at the desk — cross-desk or on your own file re-exported into itself. Phantom power (48V) is written only when you switch it on or off yourself in the app, on desks where that's proven; a translation never moves it on its own. A shared or split preamp means a wrong gain becomes someone else's input, and phantom sent to the wrong place can damage a mic or DI — so gain stays hands-off entirely, and 48V only ever moves when you ask it to.

Console Workflows

Every workflow ships with its own export preview — the exact list of fields it writes, before you write anything to a card. Scope is not identical across desks. Check the preview for the desk in front of you.

Family	Extension	Reads	Writes
Behringer X32 / Midas M32	.scn	Yes	Yes — broadest verified writeback
Behringer WING	.snap	Yes	Scoped — includes aux sends
Behringer X-Air	.scn	Yes	Limited — model-specific; aux sends on XR18
Yamaha CL / QL	.CLF	Yes	Yes — per preview
Yamaha DM3	.dm3f	Yes	Selected standard-strip fields — editor-accepted
Yamaha RIVAGE PM	.RIVAGEPM	—	Generate, scoped — validate before use
DiGiCo SD	.ses	Yes	Yes
Avid VENUE S6L	.dsh	Yes	Yes
Allen & Heath SQ	folder / .zip / SCENE*.DAT	Yes	Yes
Allen & Heath dLive	.tar.gz	Yes	Selected verified fields

Free: one native export to any desk. Unlimited native console exports are included with Pro. DiGiCo, S6L, and SQ don't have a dedicated page yet — their scope lives on the console support page until they do.

load·in is independent interoperability software; all console names and trademarks are property of their respective owners — see our Trademark Notice.

Real Load-In Situations

Not a workflow diagram. The four things that keep happening before doors.

The handoff. Another engineer's show file lands in your inbox an hour before doors, for a desk they never touched. Import it, review what carried across for that desk, and rebuild the rest — not by retyping 48 channels from a printout.

The input that wasn't on the list. The band shows up with one more input than the advance said — a second vocal mic, a keyboard rig nobody mentioned. Add it to the stage plot and it drops into the input list where it belongs, without retyping every channel underneath it.

The church. Different volunteers every week, a different instrument list every week, and the desk has to be right before the service starts. Hand the volunteer a plot and a list instead of a console with no notes on it.

The changeover. Twenty minutes between acts, a different desk on the next stage, and a photo of a napkin where the input list should be. Build the plot once and export what that stage's desk actually reads.

What Else Is in the Box

RF bands, for reference — the legal wireless-mic and IEM bands for FCC, ISED, ETSI, Ofcom, BNetzA, MIC, ACMA, ANATEL, KCC, and an International set for touring, on the File tab and printed on the PDF. load·in doesn't track or manage an actual frequency.

DAW template export — Reaper (.rpp), Ableton Live (.als), Adobe Audition (.sesx), Cubase/Nuendo (.xml), Ardour/Mixbus (.ardour).

Paperwork in eleven languages. Console files stay in English, by design.

Offline editing for your plot and saved shows, once you've loaded the app.

2D and 3D stage view.

Tech-rider import and generation — drop in a tech-rider PDF and load·in reads the input list and plots the stage, or build a rider from the plot instead. Text-layer PDFs only: a scanned page has no text to read, and load·in tells you that rather than guessing.

Read-only share links — from a signed-in account, send a crew link to a band or a venue without making them install anything: they read the input list and stage plot in a browser without an account, open the show in load·in with one tap, and the exported PDF carries a QR code that opens it. The link previews properly when you paste it into a chat.

Power summary.

Blackout theme.

One Project, Three Surfaces

IPHONE

Walk the room and place inputs as you find them — before the drummer's finished loading in.

IPAD

Lay out the full stage with your hands: drag risers, wedges, and mic stands until the plot matches the rider.

DESKTOP

Sit down for the long advance: build the channel list, generate console files, and send the paperwork.

The portable .show project works across the iOS app and the web app. Account-backed features require the applicable purchasing or licensed account.

Soundcheck: Last Night’s Multitrack, Through Your Show

Play a recording of the last show through the show you built, on the phone. Listen on headphones.

Load the recording. Choose a folder, a zip or WAV files. Each file lands on its channel by order and by name, and no channel in your show moves.

Mix it. Faders, mute and solo, with the filter, EQ, gate and compressor the show has on each channel. Listen switches from the main mix to any mix bus.

It says what it left out. Soundcheck plays WAV files. Where load·in cannot read a channel’s processing from your desk file, that channel plays without it and the screen says so.

What it costs. Soundcheck comes with any desk unlock. Enter your email and play one multitrack free.

Free vs. Pro

Pro is a one-time purchase that follows you.

Entitlements	Free	Desk unlock (includes Pro)
Saved plots	3	unlimited
RF band reference	included	included
CSV export	included	included
PDF / PNG export	watermarked	clean
Native console files	X32 / M32	other supported workflows
DAW templates	—	included
Local .show projects	included	included
Pro export tools	—	included
		$19.99one-time, your first desk · more desks $6.99

Start Free Full Pricing, Including Organizations →

$19.99 one-time for your first desk, with Soundcheck and Pro; add more desks any time for $6.99 each. Everything is $19.99 a month or $99 a year, with every desk family and Soundcheck while you are subscribed; your first month buys your first desk. If your desk won’t load the file, we refund you — support. Pro bought before desk unlocks covers every desk. Restore purchases with the purchasing platform account.

Questions Before You Use It on a Show

What does load·in do? Turns a rider, a typed list, a spreadsheet, a photo of a list, or a desk file into one record of the show, then builds a stage plot, an input list, your desk's own native file, and crew-ready documents from it.

Does it translate every console setting? No. Coverage differs by console and firmware. Each export preview states what is written, preserved, or unsupported. Verify every console file in the current official editor or on the target desk before show use.

Can it work offline? After you've opened the web app once with a connection, you can build your plot, edit it, and open your saved shows offline. Purchases, accounts, sharing, and all console-file import and export require a connection, on every platform including the iPhone and iPad app.

What does it cost? Free includes up to 3 saved plots (enter your email in the app to unlock unlimited plots), watermarked PDF and PNG exports, CSV export, and one native export to any desk. Your first desk is $19.99 one-time with Soundcheck; each further desk is $6.99. If your desk won’t load the file, we refund you.

Who Built It

load·in is built by a working touring FOH engineer — someone who's done the 6am call after a 400-mile drive. Support is a person, not a ticket queue: email goforshowio@gmail.com and it reaches someone who has stood at the console you're asking about.

Stop retyping the channel list.

Build the plot, export the file, verify it in the desk's own editor.

Open load·in — Free, No Signup → Download User Manual (PDF)

Always open an exported console file in the official editor, or verify it on the target desk, before show use.