What's new in StitchAble

New

• A set knows its songs. Every set built as a project now carries a set card: its running order and a small copy of each song's session. Open the set on another computer and StitchAble can rearrange it and rebuild it, library or no library. It finds the card by itself when you press Live, and Recent, Open a Set does it without Ableton open. If the stems aren't on that computer, run Collect All where the set was built and it'll use those. Sets built before this need one rebuild to get a card.
• Build & Reapply keeps your routing. Each track's output and sends, and your returns' outputs, come across from the open set to the rebuild. It reads the saved set, so save in Live first if you changed something. A stem you route by hand in the review goes where you sent it.

Fixed

• The click travels with the set. A set's click and the TEMPO lane's blank audio pointed at the User Library on the computer that built it, so on another computer the click was silent until you ran Collect All. They're inside the set now.
• A click loop always gets its +LOOP. In a song with the AbleSet switch off it came out named LOOP with nothing to hold it, and turning the switch off cleared it from one you'd already added. Every click loop holds now, including ones saved that way. Sets built before this need a rebuild.

Changed

• Any fade into or out of a section takes Build & Reapply. A fade is built into the set, and Live gives no way to add one while it's open. A skip made in Live mode used to go through with no fade even though the editor showed one. Now it asks for the rebuild, and if you turn its marker off it goes to Live right away as a hard jump.

New

• Add all. Add song has a new button that adds every song listed that isn't in the running order yet. Search or tick some tags first to add just those.
• Your template can be a Live Set. The TEMPLATE chip at the top of the window now takes an .als, so a folder with more than one in it is no problem. It still takes a project folder for your AbleSet material.
• Song colors from BuildAble. A color picked on BuildAble's Song tab shows in the library and running order, and carries into your sets.

Fixed

• Long sets scroll smoothly. The running order was rebuilding rows as they scrolled, and now each row is built once. Dragging works the way it did, and it scrolls when you hold a row near the top or bottom.
• Add song stays open. In a long set it closed after a song or two. It stays open now until you press Done.
• Less work while you build a running order. Every song you added made StitchAble read every song in the set again, which could spin up your fans. Now it only reads what changed, and waveforms draw one song at a time.

Changed

• Swipe to remove. Swipe a song right to left and it stops on a Remove button. Swipe all the way across to take it out in one go.
• Small touches. Buttons answer a press a little better.

Fixed

• Long sets no longer crash. StitchAble quit partway through building a set of about 44 songs or more. It wasn't your songs, it was a bug in the merge. An 80-song set now builds and opens in Live 12.
• AbleSet colors aren't part of the title anymore. A song named the AbleSet way, like Diecinueve [fuchsia] #Pop, reads Diecinueve in the library, Add song and the running order, with a dot in its color after the title. Durations like [3:20], [nosong] and classes like [.bold] come off the same way, and any other bracket stays in the title.

New

• Everything else can go to Song group or Nothing. On the Track Rules screen, "Everything else goes to" can now be a return, Song group or Nothing. Song group plays those tracks through their song's group and out to Main. Nothing leaves them in the set with no return, so they're silent. Tracks you've picked a return for still go to it.
• A whole instrument group to one return. Each category on the Track Rules screen, like Drums or Keys, has its own return picker, so the whole group goes there at once. A track's own pick still wins.
• On the Returns page, any track can go to Song group or Nothing too, and the set remembers it.

Fixed

• A slash in a set name no longer stops the build. A set named with a date like 10/31 failed with a "Creating a temporary file via mkstemp failed" error. The slash becomes an underscore in the file and folder names, the same way it does in song titles, and the set keeps its name as you typed it.

Fixed

• 71.5 BPM reads 71.5. The Library, the Add Song sheet and the running order showed a half-BPM song as 71. A click loop's tempo from a chart keeps two decimals too (172.25 read 172.3).
• A long artist doesn't hide the numbers. In the running order the artist shortens and the BPM and key stay.
• Long titles stop at two lines in the Library, with the whole name when you hover.

Update both apps together. This goes with BuildAble 12 1.3.3, which builds songs into one folder and can keep a song's own click and guide tracks.

New

• One-folder songs. StitchAble reads BuildAble's new one-folder songs right alongside older ones. Songs you've moved into one folder keep their recent sets and their per-song template choices.
• A song's own click and guide tracks. They merge like any click and guide: never transposed, and on the click and guide outputs.

Changed

• The Returns page's Defaults… button is now Track Rules…, and the screen it opens is titled Track Rules. It still remembers your track groups, their order, colors and returns.
• Apply Default Returns is now Apply Return Rules, to match BuildAble.

After updating, press Update the bridge in Settings and restart Ableton.

New

• Tags in a name, in light blue. A song's name tags show in light blue after its title in the library, Add song and the running order. Card tags stay on their own line.
• Tags in song titles. A checkbox on the Track Lanes page of Set Up, on by default. Off, every song title in the set leaves its tags out, and a BuildAble song whose card says so leaves them out either way.
• Song name lane matches the title. A switch in Settings, on by default: each song's SONG TITLE lane follows its title.

Fixed

• Live mode pairs a song with its group when the song's title has left its tags out but the group's name hasn't.

New

• BuildAble's tags. A song tagged in BuildAble 1.3.1 shows its tags in the library and Add song, and the Tags filter finds it. Tags only on its card stay off the stage; tags in its file name go with its title in the set.
• A recent set still finds a song after BuildAble renames its session for its tags.

After updating, press Update the bridge in Settings and restart Ableton. Using BuildAble too? Update it to 1.3.0 as well.

New

• Live mode looks like your setlist. Rows match the running order: the number, artist · meter · BPM · key, the arrangement button, and an Edit… sheet for the name and Warp or AUPitch. Transitions sit between songs, Add song is right there, and refresh reads the open set again.
• Rename a song in the set, even live. The name you give it goes into its title and its SONG TITLE clips, and Live mode renames it in place. A rename survives a refresh and a rebuild. Live 11 can't rename a locator, so there it asks for a rebuild.
• Click loops get a key and lyrics. Give a click loop a key, and lyrics from a song in an arrangement or from a chart. On the loop an arrangement ends on, Show the Rest of the Lyrics Here puts every section that doesn't play into one clip. A loop's name or key change applies live, and Live 11 rebuilds.
• Song titles, your way. Settings has a Song titles card: artist, key, BPM and time signature. StitchAble's choice decides the set, however its songs were built.
• A Live bridge card in Settings. It shows the bridge you have and the one this StitchAble carries, with Install or Update and Show in Finder. The bridge goes by StitchAble's version now.
• AbleSet settings, if you want them. Settings, AbleSet has a new Settings box under Scripting. Tick it and Choose… which of AbleSet's own settings files come with every set: your OSC connections and their On Create commands, your project settings and password, your device views. The ones that only work on one Mac say so.
• Pick which tracks stay out of previews. The Click & Guide sheet has a Previews section with the words that keep a track out of the transition preview and the waveforms. It starts with click and guide.
• Click pads match BuildAble. An untouched pad says Classic, and Classic (default) puts a pad back.
• AbleSet tags. A song named the AbleSet way, "Cadenas #Canibal #Rock", shows as Cadenas with its tags on their own line under the artist, in the library and in Add song. The new Tags menu beside the search shows only the songs with the tags you tick. In a set, the song's title keeps its tags the way its name has them.

Changed

• New sets start clean in AbleSet. Your AbleSet folder still brings your canvases, styles and script, but not the shared variables your last show left behind, like a transpose of -1. Your backup files and setlists stay where they are too.
• Track Lanes keeps a lane it doesn't recognize where it is, the way the build does, instead of dropping it to the bottom.
• On your own template, Settings greys out the AUPitch switch and says why, like Transitions does.
• Return swatches show the exact colors Live does.

Fixed

• The click plays straight. It had a 16th swing on it.
• Set builds use your AbleSet settings. The source folder, the canvases and the cues switch were being left out, so every set got the defaults.
• Changing a key in Live mode keeps Tempo and Time in the title, and goes to the right song when two titles start the same, like Holy and Holy Forever.
• Looping a section live keeps its note, its skip and its jump. Only the loop count changes.
• A renamed song keeps its group after a rebuild.
• An untouched POST-CHORUS keeps its spelled-out callout. It could reach AbleSet's stage display shortened.
• A category added with New group is still there after a relaunch.
• A hyphen inside a song's name no longer splits it into a title and an artist: "Coldplay Mash-Up" stays Coldplay Mash-Up. A spaced dash, "Song - Artist", still splits.
• [<] reads as a lyric marker, like [>], in the chart editor.

New

• Default returns for each place you play. On the Defaults screen, give each church its own returns and pick the return every track goes to. Apply Default Returns on the Returns page puts a place's on the set in a click, and its arrow picks another place.
• Every track you've seen, in one place. The Defaults screen lists every track StitchAble has come across, with its color and category. Drag a track to another category, or right-click to take it off the list.
• One cues folder. A set's spoken cues are all in AbleSet/Cues/Custom now, with the whole family, stock and your own recordings, instead of a second folder named for the family.
• A clearer Cue Library. Every cue on one list, with the recording that says it, a Stock or Yours tag, and the ones nothing records. Add your own, play a different one, search, or show only what's missing. Matching another family's songs has its own tab, and every match there can be seen and changed. It's the same page in BuildAble.
• Your recording wins. When you've recorded a phrase the family also has, yours is the one the set plays.
• One family for both guides. The family fills a drum rack guide and goes with the set for AbleSet Cues, so there's no separate AbleSet Cues voice setting any more. Built on your own template with no drum rack guide, it's greyed out.
• Reads BuildAble 1.2.0 songs, which keep their stems next to the session.
• About StitchAble says whether this copy is activated, or how many trial builds are left. And the header has the StitchAble mark and name, the same size and place as BuildAble's.

Fixed

• Importing a pack no longer wipes your families. Add Pack… used to replace the whole Guide Samples folder, your own recordings with it. It's Import Family… now, the same as BuildAble's, and it only adds.
• Songs that aren't merged keep their own track order, on the page and in the set.
• One spelling per track. Two spellings that differ only in capitals, Drums (LIve) and Drums (Live), are one track now, under the cleaner spelling.
• No more missing click files reported from a song built in BuildAble.

New

• A set of only click loops. No songs needed: each loop gets a click made for its own tempo and time signature, and the set is built on your template, or on the Set template if you haven't chosen one.
• Click loops add nothing to your layout. A click loop no longer brings a LOOP group or track. Your tracks and groups just run through it as dead air, and only the click, tempo, time signature and sections play.

Fixed

• Click loops beside songs with lots of groups. A click loop next to a song with several groups, nested ones too, left an empty group behind and Live called the set corrupt. Fixed, and no set is ever written with an empty group now.
• A click loop first in a set built on Song 1 made a set Live refused ("Non-unique list ids"). Fixed.
• The Set Up window no longer gets stuck on "Reading your template and songs" after switching away from My template.
• The gap control under a click loop now shows right away when a song is added after it.

New

• Merge same audio tracks. One switch under the running order decides whether songs share tracks. On the Set template or Song 1 it merges every song into one group, like before. On your own template it's new: on, songs share your template's tracks by name; off, your template still sets the groups, order, colors, routing and returns, but every song gets its own tracks inside them. Each layout remembers its own setting.
• Overlaps crossfade on shared tracks. When songs share your template's tracks, an overlap always crossfades, because two songs on one track would otherwise cut each other off. The crossfade box shows checked and locked there.
• A default gap. Settings, Layout, Gap between songs: every song joins the set with that many bars. Change it and every join still on the old default follows; a join you changed by hand keeps its own.
• Double-click to add, swipe to remove. Double-click a song in the library to add it to the set, and swipe a song in the running order right to left to take it out.

Fixed

• Warped clips keep their timing. A clip you'd warped or trimmed in your song came out of the set reading the wrong part of its file: every warped clip was rebuilt from the start of the file and lost its own warp markers, so a trimmed clip played something else and a rendered click could land half a beat off. Your clips now come through exactly as you made them. Only the part of a clip that plays on past the next song's start is adjusted, so it keeps its own tempo.
• No more missing files from hand-made sessions. Samples that Live saved inside a song's own project came up missing in the set. They now point at the real files.

New

• Build your sets on a template. Settings, Layout, has a new first choice, Build sets on: Song 1, the Set template, or My template. The Set template is the new default: a clean set with SONG TITLE, TEMPO, TIME SIG, SECTIONS, OSC and the lyric lanes, one for Live 12 and one for Live 11, and every song poured into it, each keeping a group of its own. A set comes out the way it always did, just no longer shaped by whichever song happens to be first. Song 1 builds the old way.
• Bring your own template. Choose a Live Set with your tracks, groups and returns laid out the way every set should look. Songs land on its groups and tracks by name, each song's clips playing through your tracks, and your template's order, colors, routing and returns stay exactly as you made them. A track or group your template doesn't have is added where it belongs, and the next song that has it lands on it too. The template has to be saved by the same Live the set is for, and the app says so if it isn't.
• The Template page. With your own template, the Set Up window opens on a new Template page: your template top to bottom, the way the set will come out, with the song tracks landing on every row and the songs they come from. Drag a row or a chip onto another track to play it there, onto a group to put it in that group, or onto Leave out. Click a chip to split it by song and move just one song's. Two parts of the same song can't share a track, so a move that would stack them goes back, and the page says why. Your choices are remembered for that template.
• Keep the songs' locator names. With your own template, numbered locators stay numbered, on by default. Off, each section locator is named from the sections lane the way AbleSet shows it, as before.
• Build & Reapply answers Live's save prompt. When the rebuilt set opens, Live asks whether to save the one it has, and somebody had to reach the keyboard. In Live mode StitchAble now presses Don't Save for you, a switch at the top of the Live panel, on by default. It needs the newer bridge: press Update the bridge when the Live panel asks, and restart Ableton.

Changed

• Track Lanes. The Set Up window's Control Tracks page is now Track Lanes, with the Build sets on choice at the top, and Layout is the first section of Settings.
• The free trial builds 30 sets, up from 10, still up to 3 songs each. If you'd used up the old 10, you have 20 more.
• Dragging a song from the library starts right away. It used to need a moment's hold before it would move.
• The guide family carried with a set is named the way the sections read, PRE-CHORUS rather than the recordings' PRE CHORUS, so AbleSet Cues finds every phrase in that folder directly.

Fixed

• The TEMPO lane opens with its media. Songs built before the shared sounds moved into the StitchCore folder pointed their tempo clips at the old one, so every set built from them opened with that media missing. The set now points them at the file you have.

Changed

• Where a song's card is kept. A song with a project folder of its own keeps its .stitchcore.json beside the .als, as before. A loose .als or a raw MultiTracks download keeps its card in your User Library instead, under StitchCore/Cards, so opening one in the section editor or in Live mode no longer drops a file into a folder that isn't StitchAble's. A card already sitting beside a loose song is still read, and moves into the store the next time it's written.

New

• StitchAble Live. Press Live in the footer while your set is open in Ableton and StitchAble edits the open set instead of a file. Change a song's key and the stems retune in place, warped or through an AUPitch, your choice per song. Rename, mute and set the level of any stem, wire its sends, add and rename returns, all live. The running order is read straight off the open set, songs, sections, click loops and joins alike, so what Ableton has is what you see, and if you add or remove a song, Build & Reapply rebuilds it with everything you set still in place. A small control surface, the StitchAble bridge, installs into your Ableton User Library with one click and does the talking.
• Sections you can play with. Every song in the running order has a section editor on its row, drawn over the song's own waveform. Delete a section, repeat it, drag it somewhere else, trim bars off either end, give it a count-in, rename what the guide calls it, or set an AbleSet loop on it. Arrangements are saved on the song, so the one you made for Sunday is there for any set. The song itself is never changed; the set is built from it.
• Skips and loops live, through AbleSet. In Live mode the same editor works on the open set without a rebuild. A loop becomes +LOOP:N and a dropped section becomes +SKIP, set on the section in the open set the moment you make the change, and the guide's spoken callouts follow so a skipped section is never announced. Anything that moves audio, a reorder, a repeat, a trim, is a Build & Reapply, which keeps everything you set.
• The AbleSet switch, on a build too. Everything in an arrangement is really built. The AbleSet switch above the section editor hands skips and loops to AbleSet: on, a dropped section stays in the set with +SKIP on it instead of being cut, the guide announces what actually comes next, and you can bring it back live. Saved with the arrangement.
• Click loops. The + in the section editor can add a bar that isn't in the song: click and tempo with no tracks under it, holding on +LOOP until you move on, for between songs or under a talk. It starts at the tempo of the bar before it, or set its own and sit on the next song's tempo before the count. The tracks fade out into it and back in after, nothing sounds inside it but the click, and it can be set up like a little song of its own with a tempo, a time signature and a one or two bar count-in into it. In the running order it's a card of its own, named whatever you like and dragged anywhere, and in the built set it's a song of its own: title, COUNT-IN, LOOP +LOOP, SONG END.
• One SONG TITLE clip per song. An arrangement stretches or shortens the title clip to the new length instead of cutting it into pieces.
• Add song, under the last song. A button at the end of the running order opens your library with its own search. Click to add, as many as you like, and the click loop is in the same list.
• Overlap by any number of bars. The overlap is one menu entry now, with the bar count typed beside it, the same way the gap's is.
• The guide family travels with the set. A set built with a project folder carries every recording of the chosen guide family in AbleSet/Cues, in a folder named for the family, so the set has its voice on any machine.
• Add-ons. Settings has an Add-ons section. AbleSet is on by default; switch it off and no flags are written, the blue markers go away and the loop buttons go away, and the app simply builds. Ableton's Extensions is listed for the day its SDK can move time.
• Crossfades where sections are spliced. A rebuilt arrangement crossfades every seam it makes, and each seam has its own marker: on or off, and how many beats before and after the boundary the outgoing audio fades under the incoming section. The section you land on plays at full level from its downbeat either way.
• Live 11, for real. Choose Live 11 and the set opens natively there: the tempo and meter map, the note editor, the clip scales, all in Live 11's own form. Songs saved by Live 12 grey out in the library while Live 11 mode is on, and every song carries a badge, gold 12 for a Live 12 song and white MT for a MultiTracks download.
• The Set Up window. Review now opens one window with the Returns patchbay and the Control Tracks review side by side, and Build lives there, where the decisions are made. Drag control lanes into the order you want them in the set; only lanes of the same kind merge; each guide lane shows what it hosts, and a song whose guide disagrees with the set's settings gets a marker on its row that explains itself when you hover it.
• Guide settings shared with BuildAble. The family menu, the Cue Library and the guide rack importer are the same screens in both apps, and both read the same files. The set carries whatever guide lanes its songs have and the family fills their racks; there is no guide source to pick any more.
• Songs without a card. A raw MultiTracks download, or a song BuildAble never opened, gets the small card StitchAble needs written on the spot, so the section editor and Live mode work on it. The card is now <song>.stitchcore.json and the shared folder in your User Library is StitchCore; the old names are still read.
• It updates itself. A version pill by the title lights up when there's a new release, and Check for Updates… is in the app menu. Signed updates install once you approve them.
• Medley titles show their slash in the library; a hover box explains every marker; the library's guide marker says what a song's guide is; every repair keeps one .als.bak beside the song.

Fixed

• A Live 11 song in a Live 12 set no longer makes Live 12 call the set corrupt. Clip scales are written in the target version's form.
• Transitions that crossfade fade the right length on every stem. A warped stem measured its fade in beats and an unwarped one in seconds, so the same overlap faded differently lane to lane; and the seam is measured from where the audio starts, so a second crossfade after a first no longer leaves a hole.
• A cut section starts on its own downbeat. Slicing a stem used to place the audio by the clip's stored warp markers, which record whatever tempo the file was analysed at, not the song's; a slice could start seconds late. The tempo map decides now.
• JUMPGUIDE merges once, not once per song, however Live drew it below the group.
• Warp-mode transposes no longer come out shorter; a transposed stem is warped first, so its length holds exactly.

Fixed

• Live no longer crashes when opening a built set. Dangling linked-track-group references were left behind during the merge; they are cleaned up properly now, so the set opens every time.
• Tempo no longer bleeds into the next song. Each song holds its own tempo through the boundary instead of carrying the previous one across.

Added

• Control track review window. Check what the set will build before you build it, rather than finding a problem once it is open in Live.

Changed

• Choosing your songs folder is far more forgiving. StitchAble now finds your songs whether each one is a song folder with an Ableton project inside, a single song folder you choose on its own, a loose .als file, or a flat folder of .als files. Key, BPM, and time signature are read from the best-named folder, or from the .als filename.

New

• Set a song's key by hand in the running order when it was not found in the song's name, so transpose-to-key and the key display work for it like any other song.

Fixed

• Choosing a folder with no Ableton projects now says so, "No Ableton projects (.als) found," instead of silently showing nothing.

Added

• Free trial and activation. StitchAble is free to download and build with, up to 10 sets of 3 songs, with every feature working. A license key lifts the caps in the app you already have, so there is nothing to reinstall.
• Site pages for the app, including the manual.

Fixed

• The transition preview now anchors the same way the real build does, so what you audition is what you get.
• Count-in number cues are matched to your installed voice, so the count says what it should.

First release

• Multi-song merge. Combine your finished song projects into one gapless Ableton Live set, native Live songs and MultiTracks or Live 8 sessions alike, converting as it goes.
• Zero-setup click and guide. The sounds install themselves, so there is nothing to download before your first set, and the whole set gets one click and one guide.
• Returns review. Every song’s returns reconciled onto the outputs you actually use.
• Transpose and transitions. Move any song up to 12 semitones, pitch only, and choose every seam: a bar of gap, gapless, or an overlap up to 8 bars. Audition any seam before you build.
• Folder-name cleanup. Fix a mis-typed folder name and relink that song’s samples in place, or use Rename all to canonicalize every non-standard folder in one pass.
• Add Pack. Bring in extra guide and click packs, including the MultiTracks samples or your own recordings.
• A missing cue stays quiet. If a cue has no recording in your chosen voice, StitchAble leaves it silent rather than speaking a different section, so the guide never announces something misleading.
• Transposing across an overlap switches to the pitch-shifting plugin method automatically, so two songs playing at once stay in time with each other.