playbacker 0.1.0

Live music performance playback

Playbacker

TUI application for managing playback on live music performances (metronome, cues and backing tracks).

Rational

Usually people use Ableton Live, Logic Pro or any other DAW for performances. I had issues with this kind of setup: too big, clumsy and require a lot of time. There's MultiTracks' Playback, but you have to pay a subscription to get important functionality. Also, it doesn't seem that robust.

Solution

Make my own app! 😃

• Works only on macOS (with minimal effort can be adapted for Linux or Windows)
• Configurable channel map
• Storage management based on simple yaml files
• Fully customizable: can be used as library to make your own frontend, tracks or whatever

Installation

pip install playbacker

Or better of with pipx:

pipx install playbacker

Usage

• Setup configuration and storage files (example is in /example directory)
• Run playbacker <PRETTY DEVICE NAME FROM CONFIG>, for example, playbacker default