Install Prest
Install on macOS, Windows, or Linux, and open it for the first time. Install Prest.
Documentation
Play a project on a timeline, prepare it with PresTools, and put it on the stage screens.
Prest is a desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux that draws and plays a project on a timeline. PresTools’ tools open in windows over the timeline, and Prest Server is built in to serve the stage screens.
Your first project
Open a song, separate its stems, map its tempo, mark its sections, and save it. Start a project.
Play a show
Play projects side by side, and repeat, skip, or hold sections while the song plays. Play a show.
The timeline
Tracks, clips, the mixer, sections, chords, lyrics, tempo, and keys. Learn the timeline.
Projects and files
Save, recover, and open or export REAPER, Ableton Live, and DAWproject projects. Work with files.
Stage screens
Put the song on phones and tablets with the built-in Prest Server. Connect screens.
Prest Server
Section titled “Prest Server”Prest Server is the browser-based stage system, with Editor, Performance, and Setup, for REAPER and Ableton Live. It is also built into Prest.
Start with REAPER
Install the plugin, prepare your projects, and make the first connection. Open the REAPER guide.
Start with Ableton Live
Install the Control Surface, prepare a show library of Live Sets, and make the first connection. Open the Ableton guide.
Run a show
Build setlists in Editor and run them in Performance. Start here.
Fix a problem
Fix connection, show library, and playback problems by the message you see. Troubleshoot Prest Server.
PresTools
Section titled “PresTools”PresTools separates stems, maps tempo, detects chords, and recognizes and aligns lyrics. It is built into Prest, where it also transcribes stems to MIDI and corrects tuning, key, and loudness. It is also a REAPER extension.
PresTools in Prest
Use its tools in windows over Prest’s timeline. Open the guide.
PresTools for REAPER
Install the extension and use its tools in REAPER. Install PresTools.