Backing Track and Synth Management for Touring Shows

Professional Synth, backing track programming and management system for touring shows. Reliable multitrack playback, cueing, and fail-safe performance control

If you’ve worked with bands or shows for long enough, you’ll know that when a member leaves and a new one joins, it drastically changes the sound of the band. And while it might not be possible to keep the same Drummer, Guitarist or Bassist sounds, what we tend to find is that Keyboard sounds can be maintained in synth heavy or synth important bands. What if your new player isn’t a synth programmer, or they aren’t capable or re-creating the sounds that your show relied on? Furthermore, where shows become reliant more and more on backing and click tracks, this means that someone in the show must have the skills to create and manage click tracks or your incoming player must have the neccesary skills or the neccesary tech and software, which will reduce your talent pool options.

Outsourcing the management of your Synth and Backing Track Management is a modern solution to a age old problem. Turn over the management of your Synths and/or Backing Track creation/management to us and ensure that you always have the sounds, technology and resources you need to maintain the sound of your show.

Click Track Creation

Not able to create your own simple click tracks? Let us create them for you

Click Track to your spec

We’ll create a click track to your specifications incliding the ideal instrument that you want your click sound to be

Tempo Mapping

We’ll create click tracks to the tempo you want. We can have your click track follow tempo changes, or maybe your song has time signature changes that need to be factored in for the musicians to properly follow

Vocal Cues

For modern click tracks, for consistency in performances, it’s normal to include vocal cues to cue in sections. We have a unique way of including and programming these that are seperate from your click track and ensure your musicians always know where they are

WAV or MP3

Depending on how you want to receive or use your click tracks, we can prepare them in either WAV or MP3 format.

£25 per Click Track if supplying only MP3 or WAV files.

£40 per Click Track and prepared in Mainstage or Gig Performer

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Synth Patch Creation

IFor shows who want to ensure that their synth sounds are always available to them, with options for tweaking, upgrading and building into your chosen software

Accurate synth creation

Perfect for shows who have reference material to copy synth sounds from. Peefect for Tribute bands.

Layering and multiple Synths

it’s common that multiple synths might be required to re-create the sounds that others have made. It might be that there are multiple synths across a song, or multiple mayers to create a patch

Software

We’ll discuss what software you have or want, and we’ll build your synths using those options. We’ll also consult on software options if you’re aiming for something specific

£150 per song for up to 3 seperate parts

£200 per song for up to 5 seperate parts

Synth and Track Management

For shows who want their entire Synth and Backing Track system provided, monitored and managed. A truely unique solution for.a modern world.

Music and Computer Technology

The entire system is provided including an isolated Silicon Apple Macbook and an Audio Intrface capable of running your synths with plenty of head room at low latency.

Synths Created and Managed

The entire synth parts created and managed for your entire show, and updated each year for new songs, and new arrangements. Do you need an additonal song included mid-year…? No problem, it’ll be added in.

Digital Audio Workstation

The synths and backing tracks will be run from Gig Performer 5 for ultimate reliability.

Synth Software

We’ll provide you with all of the software instruments you need to achieve authentic sounds for your show.

Click and Cue Tracks

We’ll create and manage the click and cue tracks for shows that require click tracks.

Backing Track Elements

You might want, or need, additional backing track elements to augment your show if you only have one player. The Backing tracks could be synth parts, brass parts, percussion - what ever you need, we can create backing track versions for you.

Sick Tracks

Occasionally you may have a player go sick last minute, or maybe a player will be stuck in traffic and can’t get to the show. We’ll have a one button solution for you to activate recordings of the parts so that a virtual player can step in when you need them.

Set up and player management

We’ll spend up to 12 hours per year with your players or deps, setting up their choices for placement and zoning so that they’re playing the parts where is most natural to them.

Tweaking and Updates

During treatment year, if you or your players want updates made to the tracks or the sounds, there’s unlimited updates included.

Rehearsal Attendance

To ensure that our parts are bedding in, or are balanced, as they need to be, we’ll attend a tech rehearsal at the head of your tour to balance all of the outputs so that they balance with the band with little interaction by your sound engineer needed, and for consistency in output.

£3500 per year

Based on 70 shows per year, equates to £50 per show.