For road bands, tour managers and nightly set changes

Setlist app for touring bands staying synced on the road

Tonight's city has a different curfew and yesterday's encore is tomorrow's opener. SetSmith keeps the tour setlist, charts and backing tracks synced across time zones—with offline access when the green room has no signal.

Tour tags
Organize sets by leg and venue
Nightly updates
Reorder before doors from any device
Offline shows
Cache sets before load-in
Touring Bands
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Road life problems touring bands hit

Version drift across cities, lost charts in vans and setlist debates at load-in waste precious soundcheck time.

Set changes every city but charts stay stale

Update the master setlist once. Cloud sync pushes the new order and chart versions to every band member's devices.

Wi-Fi in venues is unpredictable

Mobile offline cache downloads the full project at the hotel. Play Mode runs in arenas with congested networks.

Opening acts and festival slots vary length

Clone the full set, trim to a short slot and tag it festival or support. Reuse the same song library.

Crew and players in different time zones

Shared project with editor and viewer roles keeps tour management and musicians on one source of truth.

Backing tracks and stems on a separate laptop

MP3s and separated stems live on each song. Keyboard tech and playback operator see the same attachments.

Medleys and nightly jams differ

Chord notation and lyric sheets update fast. Annotate PDFs for extended outros without printing new copies.

SetSmith features built for Touring Bands

Tour organization

One library, many nights

Tag setlists by tour leg, country or venue type. Clone last night's show, swap the local cover and search songs on the bus.

  • Tags for tour and venue
  • Clone previous shows
  • Cross-project search
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Road-ready sync

Everyone on the same version

Editors update from laptops or phones. Viewers on stage see locked charts. Offline queue syncs when the bus hits LTE.

  • Role-based collaboration
  • Offline mobile cache
  • Sync across web and mobile
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Stage performance

Play Mode for the long haul

Pedal navigation, auto-scroll, full setlist drawer and read-only annotations for the whole production.

  • Bluetooth pedal support
  • Continuous auto-scroll
  • Full setlist in performance view
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A touring week with SetSmith

Tour prep

Load the master setlist, tag the leg and invite the band to the project.

Travel day

MD tweaks order on the flight. Musicians sync offline at the hotel.

Load-in

Open Play Mode for line check. Confirm chart versions match the posted set.

Show

Perform offline if needed. Post-show, clone tonight for tomorrow's shortened festival slot.

Questions touring bands ask

Can we maintain different sets for festivals vs headliners?

Yes. Clone and trim setlists, tag by slot length and keep one song library.

Does offline sync work across international tours?

Mobile apps cache locally and sync when connection returns—useful on planes and remote venues.

Can tour management edit without stage access?

Grant editor or owner roles to tour managers and viewer roles to musicians.

Are backing tracks available offline?

Cached project data includes attached audio for offline playback on mobile.

How do we handle nightly encore changes?

Reorder the setlist from any device. Musicians refresh before the encore break.

Keep the tour set tight from load-in to load-out

Build the master setlist, sync the band across cities and perform with charts that survive bad venue Wi-Fi.