Hey everyone!
Leo kindly said it was OK to share this here. I’ve been running tracks in Ableton with AbleSet for a long time now, mostly leading worship at a few churches around the Dallas area, and it’s become the backbone of my whole rig. I built these two MacOS apps to make my life easier and save a bit of time and headache when building everything.
**BuildAble 12** takes a MultiTracks download, or just a plain folder of stems, and gives you back a finished Live 12 session with everything you want in there. It can copy over an AbleSet folder as well. Click, spoken guide cues, section locators, lyrics for the big screen display, every stem named and routed, and an OSC command that fires when the song starts. There’s a timeline editor where you lay out sections and cues by ear while the stems play.
Site: BuildAble 12 · turn a MultiTracks download into a finished Ableton session
**StitchAble** takes those finished songs and merges them into one gapless set. Running order, key changes, tempo and meter maps, markers, one click and one guide, and every song’s returns reconciled onto the outputs you need. You can also overlap songs by a set number of bars and audition any seam before you build it. And just like the other one, your AbleSet config comes along from a template you set up once.
Site: StitchAble · merge your Ableton songs into one gapless setlist
Hopefully this helps someone out, it’s already made my life easier. Either app works perfectly fine on its own.
Also, just being upfront: they’re $50 and $70 each, one time for 5 activations. BuildAble builds for Live 12, StitchAble outputs for Live 11 or 12.
I’m still adding features as I think of them, so feedback is very much appreciated. Right now I’m looking at a song library editor for BuildAble, and a live mode for StitchAble that works similarly to how MultiTracks playback lets you add and remove sections on the fly.
They’re both at https://music.danspace.app if you want a look.
Happy to answer anything, and honestly just as happy to hear what’s missing. Most of what’s in there came from things that I feel would make my life easier.
