JC Audio Precentor™
Paste this week's setlist and get your Ableton Live session, built from your own stems.
Mac appAbleton Live 10, 11 and 12Coming soon
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What it does
Every week the same jobs: find the stems, drag them in, change the key, put the songs in order, mark the sections. Precentor does them in one go.
Paste
This week's setlist, one song per line: title and key1 list
Precentor builds
Finds the matching folder in your stems libraryFound
Moves the backing tracks to this week's key; the parts your band plays live stay as they areKey
Puts in the section markers, from your stems' session files or ones you mark onceSections
Adds a click to songs that have noneClick
Makes the cue sheet and timecode with itCue · LTC
Makes practice tracks: each song in this week's key and arrangement, with one part taken out (drums, bass, keys, guitar or vocals) and an optional click.Practice
Precentor doesn't include or license any music. Many multitrack stores don't allow mixes made from their stems to be shared, even within your own team — share practice tracks only if you recorded the songs yourself or your license clearly allows it.
Works with
Ableton Live 10, 11 and 12Live
An interface in English, Traditional or Simplified ChineseEN · 中文
Your own stems, never changedMac
The session it builds
Three songs in one Ableton Live 12 session: each song with its own tempo and key, its sections marked, a click and a guide track on top.
Where the name comes from
A precentor is the one who leads the singing. In the Psalms, many songs are headed “To the chief Musician”: the person who led the music of the house of worship. That is the job Precentor helps with every week.
Say it pree-SEN-ter.
