The live-performance rig for musicians · public beta
BarBeatCue plays the setlist on the Mac — stems, click, count-in — and puts each player's chart, lyrics or score on their own iPad, all following the same bar and beat.
Every iPad, iPhone and Apple TV reads the Mac's clock over your own WiFi. When the song jumps to the chorus, every chart, prompter and score jumps with it, on the bar line.
One folder holds the setlist, the songs, the stems, the parts and who plays what. Copy it to the stage Mac, run Preflight, and it plays the same there.
Chain songs with no gap, or crossfade them on a bar line. The next song can come in at the tempo and key of the one before, then drift back to its own tempo.
For a stage full of stands
The Screens pane shows what every player sees right now: the firsts on their part, the tuba on TACET, the conductor on the bar and beat, the choir on its text.
For the band
The printed part with your own Pencil marks, seen by no one else. A MusicXML part that scrolls, re-spelled in the key you play. A prompter in the singer's own face and colours, pinched as large as they need. A chart, a giant bar and beat, the band leader's remote — set per player on the Mac, saved with the show.
For the one who builds the show
A DAW's arrange with what a DAW lacks on the same timeline — parts, chords, lyrics and actions. The click and a voice calling the next part go to the drummer's ears alone, the stems to the house. Preflight checks every song's routes, files and ports before the gig.
For the show itself
Every edit locked, the bar and beat large enough to read from the drum riser, the parts a tap away, every stem with its meter — and a Stop All that cuts the sound and the MIDI, away from Play, in the corner.
For a set that never stops
A DJ page with two decks and a fader between them: launch the next song on the bar, ride the crossfade by hand or with a MIDI fader, nudge the tempo, change the key. The band's screens switch songs where the mix passes the middle.
Use cases
The drummer hears the click, the house gets the stems, everyone reads their part.
From an orchestra to a trio: the click and the score on every stand; the DAW records.
Apple TVs on big screens for the whole stage.
Timecode in and out, a DAW on the same Mac.
The words in front of the singer, the line being sung lit.
Song into song with crossfades, matched tempo and key; the band reads through the mix.
No license until 1.0. Then one payment for two Macs, a studio Mac and a stage Mac, with a year of updates. The iPad, iPhone and Apple TV apps are free, through TestFlight while in beta.