StitchAble
Your whole set.
One Ableton project.
In minutes, not hours.
StitchAble merges your individual song projects into one combined Live set, right order, right keys, with tempo, meters, and section markers intact. Bring your own Live sets or drop in MultiTracks.com downloads; it converts and folds them in automatically. Open the result in Live and play. It assembles the songs you already have, it doesn't create them.
Build up to 30 sets free · macOS · signed & notarized by Apple
Every song lives in its own .als. Come show day you need them stitched into one set, right order, right keys, tempo map and markers intact. By hand that means copying tracks between projects, fixing tempo automation, re-dropping locators, and transposing clip by clip.
StitchAble does it in a few clicks. Direct it to your song folder, drag the songs into order, set any transpositions, hit Create Set. Open the result in Live and run.
↓ merge ↓
Made by someone who'd rather be playing than prepping.
Stitches correctly
Tempo, time signature and section locators arrive in the combined set exactly as they were. Per-song transpose shifts audio and MIDI and rewrites each song's key marker, and anything tagged [noshift] stays put.
Builds how you think
Drag songs in, reorder, transpose inline, and watch each key and meter change in the list. A key view groups your library by what fits, in key or a semitone or two away.
Your songs in, a Live project out
Your own Live sets and MultiTracks downloads, dropped in as they are; the Live 8 set MultiTracks ships is converted on the way. Out comes a proper Ableton project with your AbleSet config carried from a template.
Choose every seam, then hear it
A bar of gap, gapless, or an overlap where the outgoing song's final bars play under the next, both at their own tempo. A play button on each transition auditions the seam without building the set.
Arranges each song for tonight
A section editor on every song, over its own waveform. Drop the bridge, repeat the chorus, trim a verse, and set a crossfade in beats on any seam the edit creates. Add a click loop to hold between songs, and keep a dropped section in the set as an AbleSet skip you can bring back live. Saved on the song, built into the set, the song itself never changed.
One click, one guide, your returns sorted
Every song's click and guide lanes collapse into one of each, in the sounds and voice you picked. A patchbay wires every song's returns to the ones the set will have before it builds, and any stem can route straight to its own output.
Edits the set while it's open in Live
Press Live and StitchAble works on the set open in Ableton. Retune a key in place, rename and level stems, wire sends and returns, loop, skip or reorder a section through AbleSet. When you do want a rebuild, Build & Reapply keeps everything you set.
Live 11 or Live 12, natively
Build for the Live you run on stage. A Live 11 set opens in Live 11 in its own form, no conversion prompt, and Live 11 mode greys out the songs Live 11 can't open.
Remembers your sets, keeps itself current
Last week's running order is one click away in the Recent menu. When there's a new release the version pill lights up, and signed updates install once you approve them.
Four steps to a finished set.
Direct it to your song folder
Choose the folder where your song projects live. StitchAble reads each song's title, artist, key, BPM, and time signature from the folder names.
Build your set
Search or filter your library, drag songs into the running order, and set any per-song transpositions.
Create the set
Hit Create Set and StitchAble merges everything into one Ableton project, markers, tempos, meters, and transpositions handled.
Open in Ableton and play
That's it.
What can follow this song?
Pick a key. Your library regroups around it: what's already in key, and, side by side, what sits just below and just above, with the exact distance on every row.
Tap one and it lands in the set already transposed into key. Filter by tempo at the same time and you've found the one song that can follow the one you just placed.
Every seam is your call. Then you hear it.
Between any two songs, choose how the next one lands: a bar of gap, gapless so it starts the instant the last one ends, or an overlap where the outgoing song's final bars play under the one coming in. Both play at their own tempo, nothing stretched, and a meter change is flagged right at the boundary.
Not sure a seam works? Hit the play button beside it. StitchAble auditions just that seam in a couple of seconds, the outgoing tail meeting the incoming start, in the key and overlap you picked, without building the whole set. A quick does-this-feel-right before you commit.
Tonight's version of the song. The song itself, untouched.
Every song in the running order has a section editor on its row, drawn over the song's own waveform, one card per section. Drop the bridge, repeat the chorus, trim a verse, drag the tag to the end, give a section a count-in. Build, and the set carries the song that way. The project on disk never changes, so next week's set can arrange it differently.
Wherever an edit splices audio, a small marker sits on the seam: on or off, and how many beats before and after the boundary, so a cut never clunks. Add a click loop, a bar of click and tempo with no tracks under it, to hold under a prayer or between songs. Name an arrangement and it's saved on the song, not the set, so it's there for every set that uses it, and in BuildAble too.
Or hand it to AbleSet.
Flip the AbleSet switch on and a dropped section stays in the set with +SKIP on it, ready to bring back on stage if the room wants it. A repeat becomes +LOOP:N, or a loop that holds until you move on.
The guide follows: the bar before a skip announces what actually comes next, so the band never hears a cue for a section that isn't coming. The fades around the jump are yours to set, in beats.
The set's already open in Ableton. Edit it there.
Press Live and StitchAble works on the set open in Ableton instead of a file. Step a song's key and its stems retune in place, warped or through a pitch plugin, your choice per song. Rename, mute and level stems, set their sends, add and rename returns. Ableton's own undo sits behind every change.
The running order is read straight off the open set: its songs, in its order and at its keys, every section as it sits on the timeline, the click loops between songs, how each song joins the next. What Ableton has is what you see, so it never asks for a rebuild over something that hasn't changed.
A blue dot means AbleSet plays the edit live: drop a section and it becomes +SKIP, repeat one and it becomes +LOOP:N, written onto the open set the moment you make the change. Orange means the edit moves audio, a reorder, a trim, a changed crossfade, and waits for Build & Reapply, which keeps everything you set.
One-time setup
One-time setup: install the bridge from the Live panel and pick StitchAbleBridge as a Control Surface in Ableton. It's a small script that talks through Ableton's own API. It never touches your files, and it works in Live 11 and Live 12.
It asks about your returns. Once.
Merging songs is the easy half. The half that ruins a Sunday is routing, two songs both have a return called TRACKS and mean different outputs, a Live 11 song sends one to Master and means nothing at all. Get it wrong and Live resets your routing, or won't open the file.
So StitchAble shows you the plan before it builds: every song's return, wired to the return the set will actually have, each on its own output. Rename them, merge them, split them, send a single stem somewhere of its own. Press Build, and the next time you build the same songs, it comes back exactly as you left it.
Bring your own template.
Every set starts from a template. Use the clean one StitchAble ships, or hand it yours: the Live Set with your lanes, your groups, your returns, laid out the way every set should look. Songs land on your groups and tracks by name, each song's clips playing through your tracks, and your order, colors, routing and returns stay exactly as you made them.
Before it builds, the Template page shows the set the way it will come out, with every song track under the row it lands on. Drag one onto another track, into another group, or out of the set, or split it by song and move just one. Two parts of the same song can never end up stacked on one track: that move goes back, and the page tells you why. It remembers your choices, so next week's set is one click.
Numbered locators beside your own sections lane? Keep them. A song with a track your template doesn't have? It's added where it belongs, and the next song that has one lands on it too.
Route it down to the stem.
A loop that shouldn't hit the house. A cue track only the drummer hears. Zoom into any song and every stem is there, ride its return, send it straight to a different one, or give it a bus of its own. Saved with the rest of the set, so you do it once.
Built to work together.
StitchAble merges your finished songs into one gapless set. BuildAble 12 is what turns a MultiTracks download into one of those finished songs in the first place: click, spoken guide cues, sections, lyrics, routing.
They share one engine and one sound library, so the voice and click you set up in one are the same files the other one plays. And a song BuildAble writes is already named exactly the way StitchAble reads it.
BuildAble 12
A MultiTracks download → a finished Live 12 song.
StitchAble
Your finished songs → one gapless setlist.
One sound library. One engine.
Worship leaders, music directors, and live musicians who run multitracks in Ableton Live and build combined sets for services, shows, and tours. If you've ever rebuilt a tempo map by hand before a show or a service, this is for you.
Good to know.
What do I get in the free trial?
The whole app. Every feature works, including transitions, the seam preview, transpose, click, guide, and Live 11 or 12 output. The only limit is size: up to 30 sets, and up to 3 songs in each. When you buy, the key lifts the caps in the app you already have, so there's nothing to reinstall.
Does it change my original song files?
No. StitchAble reads your songs and writes a brand-new combined set. Your originals are never touched.
Do my MultiTracks.com downloads work?
Yes, that's a big part of the point. Unzip the download into your songs folder and change nothing. StitchAble looks for the Live 8 set sitting next to its MultiTracks folder of stems, converts it into a clean Live 11/12 project, and merges it in automatically alongside your own songs. No renaming, no conversion step.
Won't transposing wreck my drums and loops?
Tag those stems [noshift] and StitchAble leaves them exactly as they are while it transposes the pitched instruments.
Can I use my own guide voice and click sounds?
Yes. The click and guide sounds come with StitchAble, so there is nothing to download before your first set. Pick a voice family, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, or add the MultiTracks samples or your own recordings, and choose the sound and pitch of every click pad. StitchAble folds each song's existing guide and click lanes into one of each for the whole set and plays them with what you chose. Set it up once; it's shared with BuildAble 12 too.
What if I want to run a song slower than it was recorded?
Turn on the AUPitch option in Settings. Warping multitrack stems to a new tempo doesn't always go well, songs can come out audibly longer or shorter. AUPitch sidesteps the warp engine, so the song plays at the tempo you asked for and keeps its key. It ships with macOS, so the set still opens on any Mac.
Is it a subscription?
No, a one-time purchase with free quality-of-life updates.
Will there be a Pro version?
Possibly, down the road, for more advanced workflows. This version stays yours and supported either way.
Will it work with my setup?
Built and tested on Apple Silicon with Ableton Live 11 and 12. If you're on Intel or an older Live version, message me before buying and I'll help confirm it works.
Do I need an internet connection?
Just once, to activate. The first time you open StitchAble you paste your license key, that's the only moment it needs the internet. After that it runs entirely offline, so you're covered when the WiFi isn't.
How many computers can I use it on?
Each purchase includes 5 activations, enough for a typical team: the MD's laptop, a backup, the booth machine, and a couple to spare. Activation is one online check per Mac, and after that StitchAble runs entirely offline. Reinstalling or adding machines? Send me a message and I'll sort you out, I'd rather help than make it annoying.
Is there a manual?
Yes, read the whole thing online, and it ships with your purchase as a PDF. It walks through folder setup and naming, building a set, the Returns review, guide and click, transpose behaviour, output routing, and troubleshooting.
Stop building sets by hand.
Build them in minutes instead. Try it on your own songs first.
Try it first. Buy it if it earns its keep.
StitchAble is free to download and build with: up to 30 sets, 3 songs each, with every feature working. When you are ready, the license key from your purchase lifts the caps in the app you already have, so there is nothing to reinstall. No subscription, and free quality-of-life updates.
$100one-time
macOS 14.6+ · Ableton Live 11 or 12 · one online activation, then offline