Tools for STAGE and more

The musical director for Ableton Live – from the rehearsal room to the stage. Loopers as spinning rings, the whole Session View, a setlist with song and section navigation, a lead sheet that reads along with chords, fretboard and notes, a stage mixer and the audio-interface routing – in its own app window on the Mac and in the browser on every tablet or phone in the room. KORG nanoKONTROL2, Morningstar MC6 Pro and Roland SPD-SX PRO plug straight in: one script, one control-surface slot in Live. Formerly LooperPilot.

Hands-free clip launching in Ableton Live's Session View with a Morningstar MC6 Pro — alongside Push. Move through tracks and scenes, record, play and stop clips by foot; after a take ends, the selection jumps to the next track automatically. While recording to the arrangement, it logs which scene played when — as named clips on its own track. The MC6 Pro shows the selected track and scene on its displays and lights up while recording or playing — and together with StageCase the whole thing also runs in the browser, on a tablet if you like. It comes bundled with StageCase, too: one installer sets up both — including a ready-made Live template to start from.

A DIY Arduino trigger module that turns Ableton Live's click into light, so the beat is visible on stage. Two built-in buttons and an external trigger input control Live as well.

Shows the next trains between Emsdetten and Münster live on the desktop, pops up automatically around commute times, warns about rain along the way and during lunch break — and can ping your phone if needed.