Every phone in the band runs your Logic Pro set from one shared setlist. Tap a song and Logic jumps to its marker, so nobody walks to the laptop between songs.
Free for 1 setlist of up to 3 songs. £15 once for the whole band. No internet, no accounts.
Between songs, someone walks to the Mac at the side of the stage, finds the next marker and presses play. When the set changes on the night, it takes longer. And when Logic throws up a dialog, nothing plays until somebody notices it.
Apple's tools are good at what they're for. Neither gives a band one setlist on everyone's phone.
Good for mixing and running a session from an iPad.
Good for live keyboard rigs and patch switching.
Built for running a Logic show from the stage.
Keep Logic Remote for mixing if you use it. They work side by side.
Whoever runs the tracks is also playing something. With the watch, your phone stays locked in your pocket and the next song is a tap away, without leaving the mic.
Phone locked, in your pocket
A firm tap on your wrist when the Mac has made the jump, and a different buzz with a short message when it couldn't. You don't need to hear or see anything on a loud stage.
If Logic shows a dialog, closes, or the Mac drops off the network, your wrist buzzes before the next song fails to start.
Jumps from the watch move every phone, and when someone jumps from a phone, your Now page catches up.
Install it from the iPhone's Watch app, then tap Set up Apple Watch. It pairs as its own device, named after you, and shows in the Mac's menu bar with the phones.
Compared with Apple's toolsLogic Remote and MainStage don't run on Apple Watch. MainStage players often go hands-free with a MIDI footswitch wired to the Mac, and that works well. The watch does the job with no cable across the stage, and it tells you when Logic is stuck.
The watch app needs to stay open on screen and on the band's Wi-Fi.How to set it up for a gig →
Drag a song up the list on your phone and every other phone in the band shows the new order, with "Now" and "Next" on screen so nobody has to ask.
When the MD calls the encore early, whoever's nearest a phone just moves it.
Compared with Apple's toolsLogic Remote and MainStage remotes stop at Apple devices. Here the drummer's Android counts too.
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The phones talk to the Mac over the band's own Wi-Fi, and nothing leaves that network. There's no account to make and no server of ours involved.
A dead signal in a church hall basement makes no difference.
Compared with Apple's toolsThere's nothing to sign in to and no server to go down. The Mac is the only thing the phones need.
The "MIDI ports changed" alert gets closed automatically. Any other dialog shows up on the phones in red with its buttons, and nothing is pressed until a person picks one.
If Logic freezes, the phones offer to force quit and reopen it, and they ask first.
Compared with Apple's toolsLogic Remote and MainStage can't see a dialog on the Mac. Until someone walks over and clicks, the show waits.
Change sets on your phone with the Mac switched off. They sync the next time the Mac is on.
If a bandmate changed the same set meanwhile, both versions are kept and yours gets your name on it, "Friday (from Sam)". Delete whichever you don't want.
Compared with Apple's toolsWith MainStage the set lives in a concert on the Mac. Here it's on your phone, Mac on or off.
Setlists
Big buttons for play, pause, stop and next, sized for a thumb under stage lights. Editing is locked and the screen stays awake for the whole set.
Logic Remote puts the mixer a tap from your thumb. Perform mode has nothing on it you could knock by accident.
It creates a MIDI input for Logic. A Teach Logic screen on your phone walks you through mapping it, about ten minutes in Logic's Controller Assignments.
Your project already has markers. Add the songs to a setlist, pick each one's marker, and choose which should start playing as soon as you tap them.
Everyone scans a QR code on the Mac. After that, phones reconnect by themselves whenever they're on the band's Wi-Fi.
Set it up with one setlist, free, and see if the band misses walking to the laptop.