Hercules Stream Control software – Release Notes

Products: STREAM 100 ; STREAM 200 XLR

Hercules Stream Control software - Release Notes

Release 2.5 (09/16/2026)

Refreshed app design:

The overall look and feel has been modernized to better match the Stream range visual identity.

New Philips Hue plugin: 

Turn lights on/off, set color, brightness and temperature, apply a scenario, start and configure a color loop.

New audio features:

• “App Loop” VU meter: cycle through several apps on a single VU meter.

• “Foreground App”: instantly adjust the volume of the focused app.

New actions:

• “Launch File”: open a file or launch an app.

• “Mixer Cross Fader” (S200XLR only): change several soundcard volumes in a single click.

Profile:

Audio levels saved per profile, duplicate profile.

Release 2.4 (05/07/2026)

Improved Streamlabs plugin:

• New action and updated UI.

New “Switch Profile” action.

Compatibility with SteelSeries Sonar.

General user interface improvements.

Improved first-user experience with a new “Help” section (hotfix planned in the coming weeks on the S100 Firmware Updater).

Major code refactoring to improve feature integration and maintainability.

Migration to a newer version of Qt.

Various bug fixes.

Version 2.3 (01/2026)

New Twitch plugin

• Create clip

• Create stream marker

• Play ad

• Shield mode

• Chat management (sub only, follow only, emote only, slow chat, clear chat)

• Send message

• Send announcement

• Viewer count

OBS Plugin improvements

• Display or hide groups and sources

• Change OBS profile

• Change OBS scene collection

• Global UI / UX improvements

Stream 200 – Inputs volumes

You can now adjust the volume of these specific input

• Creator

• Audience

• Aux

• Microphone

• Line in

New native action

• « Go to page » : allow you to target a specific page without using next or previous page action

Release notes

• Starting with Stream Control v2.3, new updates will be highlighted when the software is launched.

• All changes will be clearly explained in stylized release notes.

Version 2.2.9 (10/2025)

New Discord plug-in !

• Control your own input / output volumes

• Set any channel member on a track and manage its volume live

• Long press your knob to quickly assign a specific channel member on your track

• Mute / deafen yourself and others

• And other useful actions while playing with your mates

New Spotify plug-in !

• Play/Pause/Next/Previous and mute songs

• Activate shuffle and repeat modes

• Like a song and add it to your playlist

• Start any of your playlist

Stream 200 XLR major improvements !

• New XLR Microphone settings menu with improved effects and graphical EQ

• Apps and peripherals can now be drag-and-dropped directly in the device and controlled as with Stream 100.

Bunch of UI/UX improvements !

• New Plug-In menu interface

• New Plug-In setting menu and tutorial

• New action tooltips added

• Improved profile menu

• Up to 8 pages

20/03/2025 - STREAM CONTROL V2.1

User Interface improvements

• Audio Source and Action names automatically displayed when drag-and-dropped

• Plug-Ins menu with new download and add button for each Plug-In

• Consistency between all tooltips

• Gradiant vumeter colors by default

New Voicemod integration

• 2 new actions : Voice Changer ON/OFF and Hear Myself ON/OFF

• Name lists added to Add Voices and Add Soundboards menus

• Improved reaction time when effect is triggered

New USB Microphone menu

• Microphone selection

• Monitoring volume slider

XLR Microphone menu add-ons

• Mic type always saved and not depending on presets anymore

• Gain always saved and not depending on presets anymore

• New Mic Meter and Voice Monitoring to help set Gain Level

• 2 presets for Hercules HXD-700 microphone

• 1 No FX preset

Bug fixes

• Action : Set Level volume

• Voicemod : 2 voices playing at the same time

• Tutorial : Watch again failing

• Stream 200 XLR : Display active mode not restored

• Ram Overloading

STREAM CONTROL V2.0 (02/12/2024)

First Time Use

• Language detection

• New tutorial videos

• Main Input/Output selection step

• Default configuration

User experience and interface

• Audio sources & Mixer menus

• Action menu sorted by type

• New Plug-Ins menu

• Audio sources configuration banner

• Audio sources tags

• Direct drag-and-drop from audio sources list

• Stream 200 XLR : Audio source assignation without Windows Mixer

Bug fixes

• Multiapp grey icon

• Background selection

• Missing translations

Version 1.4.5 (10/2024)

New features

• Profile management : Auto Save, Create new empty profile

Bug fixes

• Voicemod connection

Version 1.4.1 (09/2024)

New features

• Profile management : Create, Save, Edit, Delete

• Voicemod integration : Voicebox, Soundboard

• Delete page

New graphic interfaces

• New design for XLR Microphone settings

• New design for General Settings

• New design for Customization Settings

• New icon library

Bug fixes

• Action Name - Number of caracters

• Vumeters Style - Wrong order

• Crash Mute Channel

Version 1.3.4 (04/2024)

Fix

• New apps crash

Version 1.3.2 (04/2024)

Fixes

• Vumeter color selection

• Icon color in volume tag

New features

• New languages : German, Dutch, Korean

• XLR Mic settings menu graphical user interface improvement (Stream 200 XLR)

• Microphone limiter added (Stream 200 XLR)

Version 1.3.0 (01/2024)

Stream 100

• App: Multi App bug fix

• Screen: Volume bar now displays in red when a source is muted

• Screen: Improved graphics resolution

Stream 200 XLR

• Action: Mute Source bug fix

• Mic presets should save/load/reload as expected.

• Mic DSP Improvements

General

Firmware updates have been improved.

Some UI in settings has been improved.

Version 1.2.7 (01/2024)

Stream 100

• Action: Mute Source bug fix

Stream 200 XLR

• Action: Mute Source bug fix

General

Imported icons are now correctly saved.

Version 1.1.0 (12/2023)

• First Release