Beta update · What's in Downbeat → We got your back.
Downbeat plays your backing tracks, click, cues and charts — perfectly synced, the way you want. Build your setlist, hit play, and forget about everything except the music.
Requires macOS 15 (Sequoia) or newer · Apple Silicon & Intel · free during beta
By musicians, for musicians
A live performance solution that's designed to let you focus on your music, your band and your fans.
Downbeat simplifies the overhead of delivering a great show. Setlist order, smooth song transitions, synchronized charts, click tracks and cues that remind you how to play songs you haven't rehearsed in awhile...
Multitrack mixer
Load backing tracks, set levels, pan, mute and solo per track, and route to front-of-house or in-ear monitors.
Click & cues
A flexible metronome with tempo and time-signature maps, plus spoken section cues so the band always knows what's next.
Built for the show
Synchronized song charts, and clean performance views — arrange your setlist and run your show hands-free.
You already own the hardware
Downbeat lets you use your phone, tablet, or computer to simplify all the noise of emails, group texts, Google Docs, and three-ring binders...
Collaborate
Propose and vote on songs to play, re-order, tag songs that need practice, all the things to help you avoid "surprises"
Rehearse like you perform
Download and sync the latest setlist, practice to the exact version of the songs that you play live
Personal Mix
Use your phone to create your own mix, pick which cues you want, view the chart the way you like it. Downbeat Player synchronizes click tracks, cues and even multi-channel audio to keep the whole band in sync.
Core tracks, and Pro tracks
Every song is built from tracks. The Core tracks load your backing tracks and call out your sections. Pro tracks add the extras that keep a band tight — and during the beta, every track is included in the 30-day trial.
Audio
Import and play your backing tracks — up to 2 per song. Set levels, pan, mute and solo, the foundation of every song.
Cue
Spoken section callouts that play in the band's monitor — "verse", "chorus", "big finish" — so nobody loses their place.
Guide PRO
Record spoken or sung guide cues alongside your tracks — vocal counts, section callouts, and reminders your band hears in their monitor.
Pitch PRO
Drop reference notes on the timeline that sound as clean pitch-pipe tones — starting pitches and harmony cues so the band comes in on key.
Unlimited Tracks PRO
Core plays up to 2 audio tracks per song. Unlock unlimited tracks to build full multitrack mixes — as many backing tracks as your song needs.
Ready to try it?
Join the beta — it takes one email and a click.