PrestEarly release
Early access

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot · U.S. Air Force Academy Band

Run the set.The band follows.

On stage

Prest plays your backing tracks and puts the chords and lyrics on every phone and tablet in the band, in time with the song.

Everyone sees what they play.

Band members open prest.local in Safari or Chrome. The singer follows the words, the guitarist the chords, the keys player both, all on the bar the band is playing.

The vocals player's phone, in the Lyrics view
VocalsLyrics
The guitar player's phone, in the Chords view
GuitarChords
The keys player's phone, in the Lyrics and chords view
KeysLyrics and chords

Nothing to install

A browser on the same network is all a band member needs. No app, no account.

Their size, their theme

Each device keeps its own text size and theme: dark on stage, light in daylight.

Start and stop from any screen

The page plays, stops and changes songs, so the drummer can start the next one.

How stage screens work

Song preparation

Bring a finished song. Leave with a show.

PresTools splits it into vocals, drums, bass and the rest, maps its tempo, finds its chords and times its lyrics word by word. It runs on your computer; nothing is uploaded.

The whole song in Prest: its sections from the chorus to the last chorus, the tempo map, the chords, the words, and the mix
The vocals, separated from the mix, on a lane of their own
The drums, separated from the mix, on a lane of their own
The bass, separated from the mix, on a lane of their own
The other instruments, separated from the mix, on a lane of their own
The whole song after PresTools: the stems up to the line, the mix they came from after it. Drag the line. The sections were named by hand.

PresTools in Prest

The show

No DAW on stage. Your rig follows too.

Prest plays the tracks itself, with mute, solo and level for every stem. MIDI tracks send program changes, controllers and clock to keyboards, guitar processors and lights as the song plays, and starting mid-song sends the patches that apply there.

MIDI in Prest

The Events of a Keys track: patch changes to Rhodes, Wurlitzer and B3 organ at the song's sections, and its volume and expression
A keyboard’s patch changes at the song’s sections (example values). At Verse 1 it sends the Wurlitzer.

Already play from a DAW?

Keep REAPER or Live. Add the rest.

REAPER · Ableton Live

Prest Server

The band’s screens, served from your DAW instead of the Prest app.

Prest Server REAPER

PresTools

Stems, tempo, chords and lyrics, written straight to REAPER tracks.

PresTools

Early release

Bring Prest to the next rehearsal.

Prest Server and PresTools are included. macOS 13 or later (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows 10 and 11, Linux.

Get early access Release notes

With a small group of testers now

  • macOS, Windows and Linux
  • Runs on your band's own network
  • No account, no tracking