Press kit
The names, a paragraph, the icons and the pictures — free to use in writing about BarBeatCue.
The names
| BarBeatCue | The Mac app — one word, three capitals. |
| BarBeatCue Satellite | The app for the band's iPads and iPhones. |
| BarBeatCue Display | The app for an Apple TV on the stage. |
In a paragraph
BarBeatCue is a live-performance rig for musicians on the Mac. It plays a show's setlist — multitrack stems, a click and a count-in, routed to any outputs of an audio interface — and puts each player's chord chart, lyric prompter or score on their own iPad, iPhone or a large screen on an Apple TV, all following the Mac's clock over the stage's WiFi. Songs chain without a gap or crossfade on a bar line at matched tempo and key; jumps and vamps land on the beat; MIDI Clock, MTC and LTC keep lighting and video in step. It is made by Ron Klein and is in public beta for macOS 14 or newer.
The icons
The pictures
Drawn by the app itself — no mock-ups. Click a picture for the full size.
The stage page: the setlist, the bar and beat, the parts, every stem with its meter.
The window: the setlist strip, the song's lanes and tracks, the mixer, the band.
The DJ page: one song crossfading into the next under the fader.
A guitarist's chord chart on an iPad, the bar playing framed.
A bassist's PDF part on an iPad, turning its own pages.
The lyrics on an Apple TV for the whole stage.
Contact
support@barbeatcue.live — for a review copy, a question or a picture you need and do not find here.