Stage Player (Backing Tracks)

You perform live: music, theatre, dance. On stage, with friends, or in the street. Sooner or later you wonder whether the phone in your pocket could fire your backing tracks and your sound effects. If you have tried, you know how it goes. Tracks you cannot arrange in the order you actually play them. Levels all over the place. Dead air before and after every song. Buttons too small to hit under stage lights. And tracks running into each other when they should not. Stage Player is built to fix exactly that. Everything gets prepared at home, days before the gig, so that on stage one tap does the whole job. WHAT IT DOES • Big pads, laid out the way you play: 6, 9, 12 or 15 to a set • Trim the silence off a track, set a fade in and a fade out, add a count-in • Chain one song into the next, with the gap you choose, even across sets • Sound effects that play over the music, as many at once as you need • Lyrics that scroll in time with the song, synced to the second • PDF scores and chord charts that turn their own pages • Two audio files in one pad, one per ear: a click for you, the band for the PA • A shared library: prepare a song once, use it in as many sets as you like • Live mode: everything you cannot need mid-set disappears • MIDI: put your keyboard on the right sound when a song starts • Cloud backup, so a lost phone is not a lost show • Backup consolidation: the app now checks that your cloud backups went through without a problem, tells you about it, and offers to fix what can be fixed DRIVE YOUR RIG WITH MIDI Plug a USB MIDI interface in and the pads can drive your instruments, your effects and your lights. Advanced MIDI schedules program changes and controllers anywhere in a song, placed right on its waveform: the lead sound for the solo, the delay off for the bridge, a lighting cue on the last chorus. Messages can also go out when a song starts and when it stops, and eight ports keep each machine on its own interface. MIDI is free. NOTHING STREAMS Your files are copied onto the phone. The app never needs a signal to play them, which matters in basements, at festivals, and anywhere the wifi collapses the moment the audience arrives. Airplane mode is welcome. WHILE THE APP IS OPEN The screen never goes to sleep, so nothing disappears mid-song. Put the phone on charge for the gig. FREE Everything you do on stage is free, and there are no ads. The paid plan only buys more room for cloud backups. A full manual, with screenshots: https://www.pragmaticapps.net/help/stage-player