Changelog

Loudness normalising levels the band and leaves your click and cues alone, gets loud songs all the way to the target, and is much quicker.

Fixed

• Normalising no longer moves the click and cues. The gain used to ride the Stage Traxx song volume, which turns every track of the song up or down, so your in-ears changed level from song to song. It now goes on the band's tracks only. Click, cues, guide click and anything on the click or cue bus stay where you set them, and the song volume is yours again. Re-export songs you normalised before to pick this up.
• A downloaded Cues stem is no longer measured as part of the band. A MultiTracks Cues track counted toward the song's loudness, so a quiet song could be turned down instead of up.
• Stereo mixes keep the click side where you set it on a normalised song.
• TraxxTool opens on Intel Macs running Monterey, and on Apple silicon Macs running Ventura. Both closed as soon as they opened. Every Mac build is now checked against those versions of macOS before it ships.
• The background task list counts what is already running when you open it. It said "0 active" until the next task came or went.

New

• Peak limiting, so every song reaches the target. A loud song whose peaks left no room used to land short, often a dB or more under the rest of the set. Now its peaks are limited just enough to get there, usually by less than 1 dB on a fraction of a percent of the song, and the same way on every band track so the mix does not change. The limiting is written into that song's band stems when you export, so it has a switch: Limit peaks when a song needs it (on by default), and each song can turn it off in the Loudness window. The click and cues are never limited.
• Loudness for the whole Library. Tick songs and press Loudness… in the Library to measure them all and see where each one lands, with the limited songs marked. Change the target and every gain updates at once. It runs as a background task, so you can close the window and carry on.

Improved

• Measuring is several times faster. A song that took 12 to 23 seconds to measure takes 4 to 7, a 26-song set takes about a minute and a half instead of six, and a song that has not changed since it was last measured comes back at once. A normalised export no longer takes longer than a plain one.
• The Loudness window shows its progress, and Cancel stops straight away. Close it mid-measurement and the measurement finishes in the background.

Click sounds work on a click that came from somewhere else.

Fixed

• Default gives you the TraxxTool click. On a click from Moises or a DAW, choosing Default now swaps it in. A click downloaded through TraxxTool already has it, so that one stays as it is.
• A new click sound no longer plays over the old one. Part of the original click could be heard under the sound you picked for the first 30 seconds of the song.

Lyric headings keep the size you gave them.

Fixed

• Headings stay at the level you chose. A heading set to 2 or 3 in the Lyrics Studio turned into a big level 1 heading when you pressed Apply Text, and went to Stage Traxx that way. It now keeps its level, in the Studio and on stage, along with any colour you gave it.
• The Lyrics tab shows headings in the colour Stage Traxx does. Headings were drawn in blue, but Stage Traxx shows them in your lyric colour unless you pick one. To have a coloured heading on stage, select it and choose a colour.

The Downloader lets go of songs you added from a single file.

Fixed

• Downloader: "Not in my library" lets go of songs you added. A backing track named "Song - Artist" is now added as that song by that artist, and songs already in your library under the whole file name are recognised, so they leave the filter and Add to Library no longer makes a second copy.
• A rare crash on a Mac as TraxxTool opens. The main window could take the app down as it appeared. It opens cleanly now.

Improved

• Report a Problem tells us how your song is set up. Along with the logs it now sends the open song's tracks, pans, buses and markers (never audio or lyrics), so a fix is built on your song, not a guess at it.

Pan works on songs with their speed or key changed.

Fixed

• Pan works in the Workbench on a song with its speed or key changed. With the speed or the key moved, the tempo normalised or warp markers on the song, every track played in the middle whatever its pan said. Tracks now sit where their pan puts them, as they do in the Stage Traxx export.

The spoken cues follow the click to its side.

Fixed

• Cues sit on the click's side. With the click panned (hard left for your in-ears, say), the spoken cues and the count-in now pan with it, in the Workbench and in the Stage Traxx export. They used to sit in the middle and leak into the music side. Cues on a bus of their own stay centred.

Import from Backup brings your songs in when you press OK.

Fixed

• Import from Backup imports the whole backup when you press OK. The song list opened with nothing selected, so OK closed it and nothing came in, with no message to say why. Now every song in the backup starts selected (untick any you don't want), and OK stays off while nothing is selected.

The Downloader knows about songs you add to your library while it is open.

Fixed

• Not in my library drops a song as soon as you add it. A song you added to your library after opening TraxxTool stayed in the list, still marked On disk, until you restarted, while Add to Library said it was already there. Now the list catches up when you come back to the Downloader or turn the filter on, and a song you delete from your library comes back to it.
• The Downloader and Add to Library agree on what is already in your library. A song in your library with no artist now counts for the same title in the Downloader too.

Fixed cues and click areas after Tempo Normalise, waveforms that drift from the sound, and Ableton Live sets.

Fixed

• Cues play where the timeline shows them after Tempo Normalise. The markers moved with the song but you still heard each cue at its old time.
• A click area set to Silence these areas stays silent after Tempo Normalise, and after you switch normalising off again. It used to click again until you reopened the song.
• Regions and click areas move with a bar you add to or take off the click. Taking a bar off used to leave a region behind in front of the click, and an area silencing that bar could silence the first bar of the count-in instead.
• Waveforms stay with the sound in a song that mixes 48 kHz and 44.1 kHz files. Tracks at the other rate were drawn stretched, so the picture slipped further from the playhead every bar. What you heard and exported was always right.
• Changing the sample rate in Settings with a song open no longer plays it fast and sharp. It stayed that way until you reopened the song.
• Set up ShowVizz says so when it can't make the folder. Picking somewhere your computer won't let you write, such as a Mac's disk itself, said the folder was written with a gap and showed you nothing. Now it tells you why and asks for another folder.
• Ableton Live sets:
• One song exported from the Library takes its name from your file name pattern, not "TraxxTool Set".
• A return for every bus you've set up now counts buses you gave a colour or a Live output, not only the ones you named.
• The cue track has its own row on the Groups tab. It used to land in Tracks whatever you chose.
• Short regions, such as a half second Setup with a Pause, are no longer left out of the set.
• A blue track no longer comes out violet in Live.
• One song keeps the track order you gave it, whichever DAW you export it to.

Added

• Make it one bar. Right-click a region: it keeps its end and starts a bar earlier, with room made before the song if it needs it.
• More for Ableton Live sets. Name your buses on the Buses tab (the name is the return's name too), pick a colour for the song's group, hide the returns in the Arrangement, and let buses with no Live output play straight to Main.
• New cues line up on, in Settings > Cues: a cue you add can finish on the marker, peak on it or start on it.

Lights that stayed dark on the night now light.

Fixed

• Lights whose shutter is shut at 0 now come on. More lights from the fixture library open their own shutter, among them JB Lighting Varyscan, Martin Atomic 3000 LED and several American DJ and Elation models.
• Create a light warns when a light may stay dark. If a Strobe channel would get 0, or a channel called Dimmer is set to Nothing we drive, the editor names the channel and what to set it to. The Light Kit Builder points you to it as well.
• The Comes on at box shows its whole value.
• Words on Stage App pages each sit on a dark panel, so they stay readable over your splash. Cover the wall is now on by default in Showdown, Bracket, Scoreboard and Request line.

Added

• Betopper LM0740 (7x40W mini bee eye) in the light library, in its 18 channel mode.

PDF charts that turn their own pages in Stage Traxx.

Added

• Chart view. Press Chart in the Workbench, or drop a PDF onto it, to see the song's chart the way Stage Traxx shows it at the playhead. Every page turn is marked on the chart beside it.
• Auto Sync for page turns. TraxxTool finds the song's lyrics on the chart and turns the page just before the next line would go off the screen. A scanned chart turns with the song's sections instead.
• Tap or click to place a turn. While the song plays, press Page Down or a page-turner pedal where you would turn. Or click a spot on the chart, and the screen shows it from the playhead on.
• Make a chart from the lyrics. Your words and chords laid out as a PDF, with the song's capo and transpose applied.
• PDF Charts in the Library. Attach a folder of charts to your songs by title, make charts for every selected song, or save a set's charts as one chart book to print.
• Show Chart puts the page turns on the timeline, where you can drag them.

The chart scrolls by itself on the iPad once you export. Notes you draw on it in Stage Traxx stay in the PDF and come back with an import.

Fixed

• A Stage Traxx song with PDF scroll tags in its lyrics imports properly. Each tag used to become a section heading that then showed on stage.

Ableton Live sets laid out the way you build them, and a Stage Traxx export with one stereo file per song.

Added

• Ableton Live sets, your way. The Arrangement view export now follows your own layout, set once in Settings > Export > Ableton Live sets (or the button beside the target in the export window):
• Name each set from a pattern, such as Song - Key - Tempo.
• Each output bus becomes a return track with its colour and Live output, and every track plays through Sends Only.
• Put track types into your own groups, inside one group named after the song.
• Tracks keep their TraxxTool colours.
• A Sections track has a coloured clip for each song section. A Lyrics track has a clip for each line, with chords in square brackets.
• Your rig's MIDI goes on its own tracks, one per device. The set is plain Live. If you use AbleSet, one switch gives the tracks and clips AbleSet's names.
• Stage Traxx 4 (L/R mixes) and Stage Traxx 3 (L/R mixes). Two new formats in the Library's export list send each song as one stereo file instead of its tracks: click and cues on one side, the band on the other. Lyrics, MIDI, sections and song settings go across as usual, and the files are far smaller. Each song arrives in Stage Traxx as a single track, so you can't turn one part up or down, or mute it, there, and extra cue tracks and buses are lost. TraxxTool warns you before it exports. The normal Stage Traxx formats are still the ones to use if your rig can take the tracks.

Changed

• Ableton Arrangement sets use sends for your buses instead of a group per bus. The old layout is still there as an option in Ableton Live sets.
• The Stage Traxx 3 "Single Mix Backup" option is replaced by Stage Traxx 3 (L/R mixes), which adds the warning, the choice of click side and song shares.

Cue level, song sections in Light & Video, and fixes for snap, Ableton exports and the backing-track downloader.

Added

• Cue level. Turn the spoken cues down (or up) without touching the click. Click the dB button on the cue lane in the Workbench and pick a level, or set any value from -24 to +6 dB in Settings > Cues. You hear the change straight away, and every export uses it: the Cues track in Stage Traxx, the other formats and the stereo mixes. It is 0 dB until you change it, so nothing you already export sounds any different.

Changed

• Song sections can be added in Light & Video. Add Marker and the timeline's right-click menu now have Song Sections (Intro, Verse, Chorus and the rest) in Light & Video too, the same as in Cue. You no longer have to change mode before Create my light show can build from them, and the sections show on the timeline while you work on the lights.
• Create my light show helps when a song has no sections yet. Instead of a message telling you to switch modes, it offers Add a section, which opens the Add Marker menu where Song Sections are.
• The box next to Add Marker is now labelled Mode, so it is easier to tell it switches between Cue, Light & Video and your MIDI gear.

Fixed

• Snap lands on the beat again in a song you have tempo normalised. Markers, regions and cuts could snap to a point just before or after the beat lines on the ruler, so a cue meant for the downbeat sat just in front of it. Anything you placed with snap in a normalised song may be off the same way: drag it and it snaps onto the beat.
• The click lines up with Live's bars in an Ableton Arrangement export. The stems started at bar 1 with the pre-roll in front, so every beat sat a little after Live's grid. The stems now start just far enough in for the click's bar 1 to land on a Live bar line, and the Locators move with them. Export the song again to get the fix.
• A backing-track download no longer puts one channel's audio in another's file. A song could arrive with the click in its drum track. The downloader now checks the store is playing only the channel it is about to download, and downloads a track again if it arrives as a copy of another one.
• Refresh Tracks no longer stops at "checking the browser" when the first browser download was cut short. If TraxxTool was closed while it was first downloading the browser the backing-track downloader uses, every Refresh Tracks after that waited 90 seconds and gave up. It now downloads the browser again.

The two downloader fixes come with the backing-track downloader add-on 1.4.16, which updates itself.

Fixed a crash report when closing TraxxTool straight after opening it.

Fixed

• Closing TraxxTool within a few seconds of opening it no longer sends a crash report saying "Signal source has been deleted".

Fixed "Failed to load Python DLL" when updating from 2.48.1 or older, and the backing-track downloader failing to get its browser on some connections.

Fixed

• Updating from 2.48.1 or older on Windows no longer ends in "Failed to load Python DLL". The restart after an update is done by the version you are updating from, so the fix in 2.48.2 only helped from 2.48.2 on. The installer now restarts TraxxTool itself when the older version would fail to.
• The backing-track downloader gets its browser on more connections. On some, downloading it timed out every time, even though the same file came down fine in a web browser. If it still can't, the message lists the two files to save to your Downloads folder, and the downloader picks them up from there. This comes with the backing-track downloader add-on 1.4.15, which updates itself.

Fixed a "Failed to load Python DLL" error after updating on Windows.

Fixed

• TraxxTool reopens by itself after an update on Windows. It could show "Failed to load Python DLL ... LoadLibrary" instead. The update had installed; only the restart failed. The same could happen after changing a setting that restarts the app.

Fixed a crash when backing up to the cloud.

Fixed

• Back up everything now no longer crashes. It did if you had opened Settings from the export settings link in the Library. Settings opened from there now also applies your changes straight away.

Added an Ableton export in Arrangement view, a starting note for singers and a BPM setting for Speed. Fixed an empty Cues.mp3 and Tempo Normalise pulling the click off the music.

Added

• Ableton Live Set, Arrangement view. A new export format: one song per Live Set, every track lined up from bar 1, with the tempo set and your song sections as Locators.
• Starting note for the singer. In the cue menu. TraxxTool finds the first note in the vocal and puts it on the cue track as a piano note, a bar before the singer comes in.
• Speed in BPM. Click the word SPEED to switch the box between percent and BPM, then type the tempo you want.

Fixed

• Cues.mp3 opens again. In a song with a cut running past its end or back before its start, the cue track could export as an empty 1 KB file.
• Tempo Normalise keeps the click on the music. On some songs the new click and the bar ruler landed up to half a beat early. If a song you normalised is out, switch Tempo Normalise off and on again.
• Songs you had transposed on the store come down in their original key again. A pop-up on the store's page could stop the backing-track downloader putting the key back, and the last few tracks failed. Your store key is still applied in TraxxTool as the song's pitch. If a song's key can't be put back, nothing is downloaded and the Downloader says how to fix it. This comes with the backing-track downloader add-on 1.4.14, which updates itself.
• If one track of a song won't come down, the rest of the song still does, and downloading it again fetches only what is missing.
• When the store refuses your sign-in, the Downloader now shows the store's own message.
• The download summary no longer counts a failed song as downloaded.
• Fewer crashes on Mac after closing a window, most often the Light Cue editor or a look in Scenes & Looks.
• TraxxTool opens faster if you last left it on the Rig page.

Fixed the cue stem being replaced by a track called Cues.

Fixed

• Your cues are in Cues.mp3 again. If a song had a track of its own called Cues, for example stems brought back from Logic after an earlier export, that track was written over the cue stem, so the cues you placed in TraxxTool were missing from every export. The track now goes out as Cues 2, beside your cues.

Fixed a crash that could follow editing a light cue, mostly on Macs.

Fixed

• No more crash after editing a light cue. Closing the Light Cue window could leave TraxxTool to crash a few seconds or minutes later, often while you were doing something else entirely. It was mostly seen on Macs.
• "Mark your song sections first" now says where. Section markers are added in Cue mode: right-click the timeline and pick Song Sections. The Light & Video right-click menu only offers light cues, so the old wording sent people looking in the wrong place.

Fixed muted cues being mixed into the stereo backing track, and the Downloader now only moves song folders to the Trash if you turn that on.

Changed

• The Downloader leaves your song folders where they are. Moving a downloaded song's folder to the Trash or Recycle Bin is now an option in Settings > Library, off by default.

Fixed

• Muted cues stay out of the stereo backing track. With "Leave out muted tracks" ticked, muting the cues in the Workbench now leaves them out of the export too. The mute is saved with the song.

Fixed crash reports that could describe the wrong crash when TraxxTool had been opened twice.

Fixed

• A crash report now describes the crash you were in. If you opened TraxxTool again while it was already running, a crash in the copy you were using could be reported with the details of the second one instead.

Fixed a false crash report after quitting mid-download on Windows.

Fixed

• Quitting while a song is still downloading no longer reports a crash. On Windows the next launch could offer to send a crash report for an app you had closed yourself. Your songs and settings were never affected.

Fixed blank purchase dates in the backing-track downloader.

Fixed

• Purchase dates show for every song in the backing-track downloader. Where the store writes dates month first (9/30/26), songs bought after the 12th of a month had no Purchased date, and the rest had the day and month swapped. Press Refresh Tracks once to fill them in.

Add-ons

• The backing-track downloader add-on 1.4.11.

Fixed TraxxTool closing just after you add stems to a song.

Fixed

• Adding stems no longer closes TraxxTool. Now and then the app shut down a moment after the new tracks landed.

Added audience voting that needs no sign-in on the player, and Stage App pages on every ShowVizz player.

Added

• Audience voting runs on any ShowVizz player. A show with audience voting now carries its own voting key, so nobody has to sign in on the computer or tablet that plays it. You can turn a show's key off on your account page at traxxtool.app.
• Stage App pages on Mac, Linux, iPad and Android. With ShowVizz 1.5.0 the pages draw on every player, not just Windows.

Fixed

• The voting QR shows on the Showdown, Scoreboard, Bracket and Request line pages, and Showdown no longer cuts off its round name and QR on a 16:9 screen. Export the show again to pick these up.

Fixed the Screen preview on songs with page cues or video cues, and Import a Folder leaving a song unsaved.

Fixed

• The Screen preview no longer stops with an error on a song with a page cue.
• Import a Folder leaves your songs saved. The last song imported showed Unsaved though nothing had changed, and opening another song could ask to recover changes that were never lost.
• Import a Folder no longer says "the 0 songs". When every song you tick brings its own cues, the spoken title option says there are none to add.
• Screen preview on a video cue. Stopping or scrubbing onto a video cue could leave the Screen preview black until you pressed Play. It now shows the cue.

Fixed a false MIDI clash warning.

Fixed

• No more rig warning for a switch that is never sent. A song on Board # 1 with no rig on that board warned that its Stage Traxx MIDI clashed with the HeadRush rig, though nothing switches the rig for that song.

Fixed the automatic count-in on songs whose click starts well before the music, and MIDI from Stage Traxx backups landing on the timeline.

Fixed

• The automatic count-in counts into the song. When the click starts more than a bar before the music, "2 3 4" now land in the bar before the song starts, and the title starts with the click. If the start of the song isn't clear, the count stays where it always went. Songs you have already imported keep their cues.
• MIDI a Stage Traxx backup sends on song load, play or stop comes in as the song's Stage Traxx MIDI, listed in the Inspector's MIDI section, instead of as a marker at 0:00. MIDI at a set time still lands on the timeline.
• A backup's board switch comes back as the song's Board # on a machine with the same rig, so it goes out once when you export.

Fixed ShowVizz shows starting the first song's light show under every song, and the Stage App picker in the installed app.

Fixed

• Every song in a ShowVizz show starts its own light show. In a show of two or more songs, Stage Traxx started the first song's lights and film under every song after it. Each song now keeps its own MIDI song number. After updating, export your show once: TraxxTool names any song that needs Prepare Song before its Stage Traxx file sends the right number.
• The backing tracks are free. File > Export As asked for Pro to export a Stereo or Left/right backing track, and the Library showed a PRO badge beside them.
• Medley Studio says what it counted. A count-in or a breather is a block like a song, so 3 songs and a count-in are 4 blocks, and the upgrade box now says that instead of "This one has 4".
• The Stage App picker lists the six built-in apps. In the installed app it showed only "No app", so Scoreboard, Bracket, Showdown, Now playing, Request line and Splash could not be picked. They now ship inside TraxxTool on Windows, Mac and Linux and work offline.

New click sounds, and Stage Traxx backup imports keep your MIDI where you put it.

Added

• The built-in click sounds are real recordings now. Woodblock, Drumsticks, Cowbell, Rim knock, Kick and snare and Kick and hi-hat are hits from real instruments, and there's a new Claves. The cowbell is a high bell on the accent and a low bell on the rest, and Rim knock is a proper cross-stick. The electronic beep has a crisper edge.
• Clicks that sound like your DAW. Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Studio One, FL Studio, Reason, Bitwig and Sonar, wherever you pick a click sound.

Changed

• The old built-in sounds are marked (legacy). A song that uses one sounds exactly as it did and keeps it, but they are no longer offered anywhere else. If your guide click default was one of them, new guide clicks start on its new version.

Fixed

• Re-voicing a click TraxxTool made no longer loses beats. A Kick and hi-hat click dropped a hat or two, and a fast Cowbell click lost the beat just after each downbeat.
• A song imported from a Stage Traxx backup keeps its MIDI in your order, with your headings and notes above the commands they describe. Re-import a song you have already brought in to get its order back.
• Timed section headings on an imported lyric sheet keep their times, and the lines under them start from there instead of being spread evenly over the song.
• A line of asterisks closing a sheet's MIDI block no longer shows up in the Lyrics tab.

Fixed Pause regions again and a guide click losing its area sounds.

Fixed

• A Pause region no longer plays the next region's first click as it stops, even when that click lands a moment before the region line.
• Pressing Play after a Pause region plays the next region's first click in full. It started from the second beat.
• A guide click keeps its area sounds when its track type is changed. Its areas played the normal click instead, and the Sound and Level settings disappeared from the Inspector. The sounds were never lost, so they come back as soon as the song is opened.

Fixed Pause regions, the output meters in the clip editors and the Genius error in Auto-Sync.

Fixed

• A Pause region stops before the next region starts. The next region's first click no longer sounds as it stops.
• Pressing Play after a Pause region carries on into the next region. It stopped again on the spot with a clunk.
• The output meters in the click sound and cue editors are empty when nothing is playing. The number under the meter still shows the clip's peak.
• When Genius rejects your access token, Auto-Sync says so in one line and tells you to paste a new one in Settings, instead of showing the server's whole reply.

Fixed two Mac crashes.

Fixed

• TraxxTool no longer crashes at random on a Mac. It was most likely while the window was opening, and could take several tries to start.
• Opening the Rig tab no longer closes TraxxTool when macOS will not let it use MIDI. The MIDI port list is empty until macOS answers again.

Fixed a Lyrics Studio crash.

Fixed

• Editing on the Lyrics tab no longer crashes TraxxTool when the words hold a colour tag Stage Traxx does not know, such as {c:chorus}. The tag is kept as it was.

Fixed a guide click's name spreading to the click in every song.

Fixed

• Renaming a guide click no longer renames your other clicks. It changed the click in every song to match, and naming it back to Click did not stick.
• A song with a guide click opens with its main click still called Click, not Click2.

Added Bands & Shows, lighting versions and new editors for click sounds and cues. Fixed click sound trimming, splitting on a Mac for the first time, and the Bandroom window.

Added

• Bands & Shows, for one library that plays in several bands. Set up each band you play in, then the kinds of night each one does. A show has its own set list, lighting, screen, Stage App and starting mix, and every song still exists only once. It lives in its own section of the Library sidebar. If you never open it, nothing else changes.
• Get this show ready checks a show and exports it to Stage Traxx and ShowVizz in one go, with its set list in sets. It tells you about anything missing before you get to the venue.
• Utility songs. Interlude, Ready mics, Break, Walk on, End of set and Blank are made from the Library in a few clicks, with no trip to the Workbench. They can change the Stage App page and move your desk, so an Interlude can fade up the XR18's aux 17/18 for break music and fade it back down.
• A band's mixers. Add your desk by name, or Stage Traxx's own mixer using what you taught it in Remote Control > Learn. Stage Traxx mutes arrive as toggles, since that is all Stage Traxx allows, and the show check warns you about it.
• Lighting versions. A song can keep more than one lighting show, such as a slow one for the theatre crowd and a fast one for the pub. Switch between them from the chip on the light lane. A version can carry the lights, the screen (video cues and the song's film), or both. A show picks which versions it plays, and a song without that version plays its own.
• Playlists do more. Drag songs between sets, drop them exactly where you want them, reorder and duplicate playlists. Alt+Up/Down moves a song into the next set when it crosses the boundary.

Changed

• New editors for click sounds, recorded cues and audio cues. The clip sits on top, with Low cut, EQ, Comp and a Level fader with a meter underneath. EQ and Comp start as one knob each, Tone and Amount, and the switch in each corner shows every control behind it. Knobs and faders work like a DAW's: double-click to reset, click a value to type one. Sounds and cues you already have play exactly as before until you change them.
• The Bandroom window is easier to read. Drag a column wider, double-click a divider to fit it, sort by any column and search songs, artists and members. It remembers its size and column widths, and each row's button says what it will do: Download & open, Update & open or Open.
• Tables across the app have one look, in the Library, Shows, the Downloader, devices, MIDI and lighting: row bands, status dots and clear selection.
• The Downloader's toolbar is two rows, your sources and actions on top, then a full-width search with filter chips.
• The Light & Video toolbar matches the main toolbar. Scenes and looks are one row at the same height as everything else. When there are more than fit, arrows appear and the mouse wheel scrolls them.
• One + makes a new scene or look. It stays at the end of your scenes however far you scroll.
• The Light Kit button shows your kit's name, "Pub rig" rather than "Kit: Pub rig".

Fixed

• A click sound plays exactly what is between its handles. The right handle stops at the 400 ms limit, which is marked on the clip, and you can drag the tick along to another hit.
• A Beat taken from the same clip as the accent keeps its own level. It used to be set to a fixed level whatever it was in the recording. The editor shows whether it is still far enough under the accent to count as a beat.
• Tone, Comp and Low cut do what they say. Everything starts flat or off, so a new clip plays as it was made.
• The waveform shows the sound at its real level. A quiet hit no longer looks turned up next to the rest of the clip.
• Normalise and Auto-trim in the cue recorder are switches you can see. Normalise shows how much it turned the cue up.
• Microphones show their full name in the cue recorder and Harmony Studio. Windows cut long names short.
• Splitting on a Mac works the first time. The first split on your own computer failed with "Could not load the Demucs model" before a single stem was made.
• Notes beside your MIDI in a Stage Traxx lyric sheet stay with it. A backup import put them in the Lyrics tab as lines of the song. They now come in with the MIDI they describe and go back out above the same command.
• Stems called "Git Lead", "Git4Solo" or "GitRhy" are typed Guitar. They came in as Other.
• Close, Esc and the title bar X close the Bandroom window. They did nothing.
• The Bandroom website fits a phone, with bigger buttons, and says what it is doing while it uploads.

Added a choice of cue track when reading cues off a track, and a way to leave muted tracks out of a stereo backing track. Fixed trimming a click sound to a later hit, and cue tracks coming back from a Stage Traxx backup.

Added

• "Cues from this track" lets you pick the cue track. If you use extra cue tracks, choose the main cues, one of your cue tracks, or a new one named after the audio track. It starts on the cue track with the same name, and the marker dropdown moves to wherever the cues went.
• Leave out muted tracks in File > Export As..., for the stereo backing track. It is ticked by default, so muted tracks stay out of the MP3. They used to go in anyway.

Fixed

• A click sound can use any hit from a clip of several. Dragging the left trim handle past the first hit kept bringing the first hit back, and every beat played it. The Beat now plays the hit you trimmed to, and the waveform shows only what you will hear.
• Counts read onto an extra cue track are kept. A "3" on the singer's audio was dropped when the main cues already had a "3" at the same moment.
• Cue tracks come back from a Stage Traxx backup as Cue Stem. A track called VoxCues arrived as a lead vocal, and "guide_track" from songs prepared before 2.15.1 arrived as a second click. "Guide" and "Guide Click" are still clicks.
• A backup's Cues track has its row on the Output buses page straight away. It used to appear only after you opened one of those songs.
• Adding a cue track while in Light & Video switches to it. The next marker you placed used to be a light cue.
• A click track is no longer offered "A track of its own" under Also play in. That choice silences the rest of the stem. For a click that plays only in some bars, press Add Click, mark the bars and pick "Play only these areas".
• A stem sent to a track of its own in "Play only these areas" no longer sounds twice on the device. The marked bars were exported in the stem and again in its Marked areas copy.
• "Keep playing here as well" keeps the track playing. It is gone from "A track of its own", where it did nothing.
• The Marked areas lane draws only the bars it carries. Areas sent to the cues, or sent nowhere, were drawn into it too.
• An area's Sound list follows the click track's own sound. Re-voice the click with an area selected and the first entry names the new sound straight away.

Stage Apps are new, and in beta for this first outing.

Added

• Stage Apps: something on the screen the room can join in with. A showdown the audience votes on from their phones, a running score, a request line, a countdown through the break. Pick one under Stage App... on the Video tab. It is a new feature in beta, so the screens carry a NEW banner with a report button in it: please use it. Your lights, video cues and MIDI triggers run exactly as they did before, whatever a Stage App does.
• Pages draw on the Windows stage player in this beta. ShowVizz on a Mac or on Linux runs the whole show, lights and video and all, and leaves the page off. The iPad and Android players do not draw pages yet.
• The page engine is a separate download, about 150 MB. TraxxTool offers it when a show of yours has a Stage App in it, and never otherwise, so a show without one costs you nothing.
• The app asks for what it needs and you fill it in: the venue, your colours, how many rounds, your logo.
• Page cues sit on the song, in their own lane on the Screen strip. Double-click the lane where you want the screen to change.
• A song can hand the app a page as it plays out. Right-click its lane and open When This Song Ends.
• Interludes change the screen between songs. Each one goes into the show as its own silent track, so the band starts it from the iPad like any other.
• Pads for whoever is running it. App controls... maps notes and knobs to pages, votes, scores and the app's own buttons, on a MIDI channel you pick. It works with no network at all.
• A phone or tablet as the remote, paired by scanning the code on ShowVizz's Remotes screen. Operator or watch-only, several at once, no internet.
• The audience votes from a QR code on the screen. One vote per phone per round, no sign-up, and anything anybody types waits for your approval.
• Voting and the remote from outside the room need TraxxTool Cloud. The rest of a Stage App is free to build, and travels inside the show like everything else.
• The stage player is paired to your show as always. A show with a Stage App in it asks for ShowVizz 1.4.0 or newer, and TraxxTool will not hand you an older one for it.

Whole folders of songs import in one go, a song that brings its own cue track keeps it, and the stem splitting engine downloads on Intel Macs.

Added

• Import a folder takes a folder of song folders, one subfolder of stems per song, as well as one file per song. It lists the songs under the names they will get, and you can untick any you don't want.
• A song that comes with its own cue track keeps it. If one of its stems is called Cues, Prompts or Talkback, TraxxTool adds no spoken title or count-in. Place Intro Cues still adds them, and Import a folder lets you choose for every song at once. Downloaded songs get theirs as before.
• A cue stem of your own gets a Cue Stem track type and goes to the same bus as TraxxTool's cues. It used to arrive as Other. Change its bus on the Output buses page.

Fixed

• A song whose stems are in a folder called Stems is named after the song. "Paradise/Stems" and "Paradise Stems" both come in as Paradise. They used to come in as Stems and Paradise Stems.
• The Cues track of a song imported from a Stage Traxx backup stays on the click bus when you prepare it again. It used to move to the Other bus.
• Dropping a folder of songs on the Workbench finds stems kept a folder further down, like "Paradise/Stems". It used to say there was no audio.
• Opening TraxxTool while a copy that has stopped answering is still running tells you so. It used to do nothing at all.
• The stem splitting engine downloads on Intel Macs. It stopped part way through with an error.

A guide click that changes sound as the song goes, your own audio as a cue, and a medley that keeps every song's cues.

Added

• The empty Library has an "Import a song's stems" link, beside Import a folder.
• New track type asks for a name, an output bus and a colour in one step. It is at the end of the list on the Output buses page, in the type menu on a track, and under Add in Manage track types. Use it when you have more buses than track types, like three guitar buses.
• A stem named after one of your own track types arrives as that type. Make a Banjo type and "Banjo.mp3" comes in as Banjo, on the bus you gave it.
• One track can go to a different bus from the rest of its type. Tick Tracks can have their own bus on the Output buses page, then pick one under Output bus in the track's channel strip or right-click menu. Its header shows the bus. While it is ticked, songs imported from a Stage Traxx backup keep the buses they had on the device.
• Add a folder of stems to a medley. The button is under the song list in the Medley editor. The folder joins your library as a song and goes into the medley.
• Start here and End here on the Medley editor's Song tab. Click in the song where you want it to start or stop, then press the button. It lands on the nearest bar line. The [ and ] keys do the same.
• Save a Copy asks what to call the copy. The copy's folder on disk gets that name.
• A guide click can change sound and level from one area to the next. A rim tap into a quiet intro and a cowbell after a loud solo, each at its own level, on one track. Click an area and set Sound and Level in the Inspector, or right-click the area > Sound.
• Audio cues: your own audio as a cue. Import a clip, trim it, set its level and drag the amber line to the instant that lands on the marker. It plays whatever cue voice is set, on the main cue track or an extra one. Switch it on under Inspector > Cue Tracks > Audio cues, then pick from Audio in the Add Marker menu.
• Generate a sound from a description. In Audio Cues, Generate takes a few words and a length and gives you a sound to trim like any other. It shows the price in credits first, or uses your own ElevenLabs key.
• Also play in lists your extra cue tracks under Cue track, so an area can go to the singer's cues and nobody else's.

Fixed

• Auto-Sync no longer ends on "No lyrics found" when LRCLIB stops answering part way through the search. It says what went wrong instead.
• ShowVizz on a Mac installs into your own Applications folder, where Finder shows it. It used to go in a hidden Library folder. A copy already there still works.
• ShowVizz opened from TraxxTool on a Mac asks for local network access under its own name, and is listed as ShowVizz in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network. It was listed as TraxxTool, so there was no ShowVizz to allow for Art-Net.
• Updating ShowVizz on a Mac removes the version it replaces.
• ShowVizz is found on a Mac wherever you keep it, including the Desktop, Downloads or another drive.
• Tidy with AI keeps your chords. It used to return the lyrics with every chord removed. MIDI tags, notes and instrumental chord lines stay too. If a tidy can't keep every chord, it changes nothing and says so.
• Import Chords fits a sheet whose lines are split differently from your lyrics. Chords follow the words now, so an Ultimate Guitar sheet lands on synced lyrics even where one joins two lines or adds a "yeah". The lyric lines and their timing stay as they are.
• A chorus the sheet wrote out once gets its chords on the repeats too, where the words clearly match.
• Importing the same sheet again no longer adds its instrumental chord lines a second time.
• After an import you are told how many of the sheet's chords were placed and how many lyric lines now have chords.
• Help > User Manual opens the manual. On a Mac, and in the portable Windows build, it linked to a file on the website that was taken down a couple of releases later, so it opened a 404. Every build now carries its own copy.
• The Interactive Tour opens, or tells you it could not.
• "Do it for me" in the tour waits for the song to load. On the stereo import it moved on at once and skipped most of the chapter.
• The tour's Auto Categorise stop highlights the button. On a new install it lit up the whole toolbar.
• The tour's MIDI stop no longer sits on "Finding the control" when no device plugin is installed.
• The tour no longer asks you to delete a demo song that was never saved, so is not in the Library. It clears that one away itself.
• The keyboard hints on the tour card are no longer cut off at both ends.
• Closing a song while it is still splitting into stems no longer shows an error.
• File > Load / Import with no song open points at Import Stems and Open Project. It used to do nothing.
• Preparing a song no longer warns that "Click 100" is too long for the Stage Traxx mixer. Add Click chose that name, not you.
• Stems named in French or Spanish get the right track type. Batterie, Clic, Voix, Chœurs, Batería and Coros used to arrive as Other.
• A medley keeps each song's spoken cues. The count, Verse, Chorus and the rest stay where they were in each song. Turn it off under When rendered on the medley page.
• The medley click stays on a song whose tempo you changed in the Workbench. It used to drift off the music for the whole song.
• The first song in the Medley timeline shows its colour and waveform. It was often drawn as an empty box.
• The Length on the Medley editor's song page updates after a trim.
• An area of a guide click sent to the cue track arrives in the guide click's sound, and at its double or half time. It used to arrive as the original tick.
• Add count-in clicks leaves the areas already on the guide click as you set them, Also play in and its level included.
• Undo puts back Also play in and Level there on an area.
• Export asks before it generates cue audio a song is missing, once, with the price in credits. Say no and the song exports without those cues and tells you which.
• Editing several markers at once uses the cue audio you already have, your own recordings included. Only a cue with no audio anywhere is generated, and once.
• A cue placed several times is generated once, so Regenerate and a voice switch cost what they quote.
• Change Click keeps your guide clicks. They move to the new click, stay in time with it, and keep their sound, level and areas. An area the new click has no ticks in is removed, and you are told. Undo puts the old click back, guide clicks included.
• The Selection Area choices read in full in the Inspector. "Play only these areas" was cut off at "Play only these a".
• Half time on a Cowbell click keeps every other tick. It kept three in four. Double time on a Cowbell click puts its extra ticks halfway between the beats.
• Renaming an audio cue renames it on the cues already placed in the open song. One Undo puts the old name back, and cues under the old name keep playing in every song.
• A cue track keeps the name you typed. One called Guide Vox reads Guide Vox in the mode list too, and so does a cue or a track type with Guide in its name.
• A song shared to your band keeps its extra cue tracks. The singer's cues arrive on the singer's track, not in everyone's ears, and the band page lists the main cues only.
• Repair rebuilds every cue track's stem, and notices when an extra one is missing.
• Place Ending Cues, counts and cue groups use the cue track's own voice when it has one.
• The title and count-in always go on the main cue track, and a count on an extra track no longer stops them being placed.
• Cues from this track mutes the track it read, so the calls are not heard twice. One Undo takes back the cues and the mute.
• A medley asks before it generates the spoken song titles, once, with how many and the price in credits. Say no and it is built without them and tells you.
• The Guide click row in Output buses moves your guide clicks. Change the row and they follow at the next export, including one made while the row said Same as click. A guide click you gave a bus of its own under Output bus stays on it.
• A Voice Cues track is never taken for the click. Dragged above the click, it was what markers, counts and bar lines snapped to. It is no longer offered a click sound, extra bars, double time or Duplicate either.
• Guide clicks move with their click. Time Shift or Align Click the click and its guide clicks go with it, in one Undo. A guide click can't be dragged away from its click.
• The first click of a guide click area plays at full level. It was faded in, so the first click of every count-in was the quietest.
• The click keeps its fader when the intro count is merged into it. Volume, pan, EQ and mute reach Stage Traxx as you set them.

Add Click now hears where the beat and the 1 of the bar are, and adds a click in one press.

Changed

• Add Click is one press. It listens to the song, adds a click that follows its beat with a count-in in front, and places the intro cues.
• Shift+click Add Click for the options: a steady metronome, a count-in on its own, the count-in length and beats per bar. The count-in you pick is remembered.
• Change Click replaces Regenerate Click on a click Add Click made.

Fixed

• The click lands on the beat, and the accented tick on the 1. Songs whose loudest hits fall between the beats, like a country strum or a disco hat, no longer get a click half a beat out.
• A quiet intro follows the timing the band sets once the drums come in.
• A medley made in another app gets a click that keeps up, even when the second song is at a different tempo or starts off the first song's grid.
• Tempo Normalise asks first on a song that changes tempo, like a medley, instead of putting every part at one tempo.
• The tempo wand reads a click Add Click made, so the two agree.
• Align Click says when a steady click can't fit a song whose tempo moves, and points you to Change Click. It used to blame the stem you picked.

Fixed

• Searching the Plugin Database while a plugin is still installing no longer crashes.

Added lyric choices for Stage Traxx exports, and songs brought back from Stage Traxx keep their MIDI.

Added

• Section names in the lyrics can be headings, hidden comments or left out. Pick under Settings > Export > Section names. Regions export either way.
• Start the lyrics with the title alone. Settings > Export > Start the lyrics with offers None, Title and artist, or Title only.
• Helix presets are named the way the Helix lists them, so preset 1 reads 01A. Type either the name or the number.

Fixed

• Songs imported from a Stage Traxx backup or share bring their MIDI back as markers, at the times they had on the device. Commands set to fire on load, play or stop still do.
• Opening the Stage Traxx Editor from the File menu no longer crashes when the Library hasn't been opened yet.
• Move to folder, Add to playlist and Delete work on every song you've ticked. Dragging a ticked song onto a folder takes the others with it too.
• Cues play at their real pitch and speed with the sample rate set to 48000 Hz or higher. They used to come out sharp and fast. The exported cue track was always right.
• ShowVizz is found on a Mac when it is in Applications.

Fixed

• One song with no BPM no longer stops a whole backup importing into Stage Traxx. Every song and track now goes out with everything Stage Traxx needs.
• A backup that already won't import can be fixed where it is. Turn on Live Edit a Backup for it and click Transfer Stage Traxx settings. It takes seconds and needs no free space.
• Auto-Sync asks which track has the lead vocal when more than one stem could be it, instead of picking the first.
• Auto-Sync no longer charges when it hears no words, and syncing the same vocal again doesn't pay for a second transcription.
• Lyrics are found for more songs by bands that can be written with or without "The", like Bee Gees.

Fixed

• Opening one song straight after another no longer closes TraxxTool. A load that finished a moment after the next one started could take the app down instead of settling quietly.

Fixed

• Exporting to an external or network drive finishes cleanly. A backup that was written all the way through no longer comes back as "Export Failed".
• Leftovers from a previous export no longer stop the next one.

Added extra cue tracks, so one band member can have their own spoken cues.

Added

• Extra cue tracks. Tick Extra cue tracks under Cue Tracks in the Inspector and click Add. The new track sits next to Guide in the mode dropdown, and the cues you place while it is picked go on it.
• Each extra cue track exports as its own track, named after it and with a track type of the same name, so Output buses can send it to its own bus.
• Copy or move cues between cue tracks from a cue's right-click menu, or copy every cue from another track under Cue Tracks.
• A voice for each cue track. Pick one under Cue Tracks and that track's cues are generated in it.

Fixed

• Tempo Normalise no longer gives up part way through a song. A click a fraction off the tempo you set used to be refused a minute or so in with "don't fit the grid". Each beat is now counted from the one before it.
• Songs whose tempo moves can be normalised. A slower intro, or a section where the click doubles up, used to be refused.
• A click that stops before the music does normalises too. The hold on the last chord follows the rest of the song, and the replacement click keeps its final tick.

Added counts on any cue, and a new DAW Export add-on.

Added

• Shift-click a cue to place it with a 1-2-3-4 count into the playhead. The cue lands two bars before the playhead, with the count in the bar leading into it.
• Alt+Shift counts down instead: 4-3-2-1. It works on Count (1-8) as well.
• Request a developer licence from Settings > Plugins if you build plugins for TraxxTool.

Changed

• Plugins that don't come from TraxxTool need Pro to load. Settings > Plugins marks them "Not from TraxxTool".

Add-ons

• QLab 2.0.0, and DAW Export 1.0.0 for Logic Pro, Ableton Live and Reaper projects.

Fixed connection problems showing up as the wrong error, like "No lyrics found".

Fixed

• Auto-Sync says when it couldn't reach the lyrics database. A dropped connection or a slow server used to read as "No lyrics found". Now you see what went wrong, for example "LRCLIB took too long to respond."
• Errors from online services name the service and the problem. Sign-in, credits, transcription, voices, AI, Google Drive and plugin updates tell you whether you're offline, timed out or the service is busy, instead of showing raw error text.
• A blocked connection to TraxxTool no longer signs you out.

Add-ons

• Ultimate Guitar Chords 1.3.3, Genius Lyrics 1.0.4 and Cifra Club Chords 1.1.2 report connection problems the same way.

Fixed Home and End leaving the Workbench view behind.

Fixed

• Home and End scroll the Workbench to the playhead. Zoomed in, pressing End moved the playhead to the end of the song but left the view where it was.

Fixed QLab and multichannel exports ignoring your Output buses preset.

Fixed

• QLab, multichannel WAV and DAW exports put each track on the bus your Output buses preset gives it. A preset with every instrument on bus 2 made no difference before.

Changed

• "Write mono left/right bus outputs" in Settings > Export now covers QLab workspaces too. Bus 1 plays from output 1 and bus 2 from output 2, so the click can go to one output and the band to the other.

Fixed a watched folder listing every stem of a song as a song of its own.

Fixed

• A folder of stems named after their song lists as one song in the Downloader. Stems like "Song (bass)", "Song (arpeggio)" and "Song (lead gr)" each showed up as a separate song, so a watched folder could list thousands.

Added QLab 5 and multichannel WAV exports, and fixed songs opening twice from the Library.

Added

• Export to a QLab 5 workspace. Each song is a group you start with one GO, and every track plays from its bus outputs: bus 1 on outputs 1-2, bus 2 on 3-4. Volume, pan and muted tracks come across as QLab levels you can still change.
• It is in File > Export As… and the Library's export formats once the QLab add-on is installed. It needs TraxxTool Pro, and QLab needs an Audio licence to play past its first two outputs.
• Songs with MIDI cues get a MIDI File cue too. Choose your MIDI device in QLab's Workspace Settings before it will play.
• Multichannel WAV export. One file per song with each bus on its own pair of channels, for QLab or any multitrack player. Pro.
• On a Mac, File, Edit, View and Help can show in the window header again, as well as in the menu bar. Turn it on in Settings > Appearance > Menus.

Fixed

• Double-clicking a song in the Library opens it once. It opened twice and left "Loading project" spinning in the header.
• Download missing audio rebuilds a song's cue track at the same sample rate as its other tracks, so the cues stay in time in Stage Traxx.

Add-ons

• QLab 1.1.0, HeadRush MIDI 1.4.2.

Fixed installing the Stem-Splitting Engine on an Intel Mac.

Fixed

• The Stem-Splitting Engine installs on an Intel Mac. The download stopped at demucs with an error.

Fixed a crash in Harmony Studio.

Fixed

• Resting the pointer over a take in Harmony Studio no longer closes TraxxTool.

Added the Stage Traxx Editor, for changing a Stage Traxx playlist or backup on your computer.

Added

• Open a playlist you exported from Stage Traxx (.st4s), drag its songs into order, add or remove songs, rename it or split it into sets. Save writes it back as a .st4s, ready to import into Stage Traxx.
• New song… makes a song with no audio, for a lyric sheet, a chord chart or a speech.
• The Song tab edits one song's title, artist, BPM, key, notes and lyrics.
• Backups open too, including database-only ones, with the MIDI, Song fields, Lyrics and Clean up tabs as before.
• Find it under File > Stage Traxx Editor…, or beside the Stage Traxx export options in the Library. Saving your changes needs TraxxTool Pro.

Changed

• Save now saves over the open file. Save as… still makes a copy.
• Deleting a song from the file removes its audio when you save.

Added an experimental option to transcribe lyrics on your own Whisper server.

Added

• Lyric Auto-Sync can use your own Whisper server instead of ElevenLabs, and so can Cues from this track. Turn on "Use my own API keys instead of credits" in Settings > AI to find it.
• It is experimental and untested. Timings may be noticeably worse than with ElevenLabs or TraxxTool AI credits.
• Any server with OpenAI's transcription API should work, such as faster-whisper-server or LocalAI. Guide voices still use ElevenLabs.

Put the Mac's own file browser back in every picker, and made a moved song easier to find.

Fixed

• Choosing a file on a Mac uses the Mac's own browser again, with your drives, iCloud Drive and recent folders. 2.35.4 swapped it for TraxxTool's own browser, which could not reach an external drive.
• If the Mac's browser does not open, TraxxTool opens its own instead. On some Macs running macOS 26, choosing a file did nothing until TraxxTool was restarted.
• TraxxTool's own browser reaches your drives and cloud folders. It lists every drive, iCloud Drive and Google Drive by name, plus Desktop, Documents, Downloads and Music.
• Choosing the folder a song moved to shows the audio inside it, and clicking one of the song's files picks its folder.
• "Locate file…" is no longer cut off in the Missing audio window.
• Audio still in iCloud is not called missing. On macOS 13 and earlier, locating a folder whose files iCloud has moved off your Mac starts the download and says so.

Added

• Settings > Library can use TraxxTool's own file browser on a Mac, for a Mac where choosing a file or folder does nothing.

Fixed file pickers on a Mac that could stop opening.

Fixed

• File pickers open every time on macOS 26. Importing a song, adding stems, choosing your Library folder, exporting and the downloader's folder could do nothing when clicked until TraxxTool was restarted.
• iCloud Drive is in the sidebar of every file picker on a Mac, along with any other cloud folder you sync.

Fixed a crash when adding count-in clicks where the music comes back in.

Fixed

• "Add count-in clicks where the music re-enters" no longer crashes. After a bar was removed from the start of the song, choosing it failed with an error instead of placing the count-ins.

Fixed a song with a cut in it never loading in Medley Studio.

Fixed

• A song with a cut in it plays in Medley Studio. It stayed on "loading audio" with only the click playing, even though the same song played and exported normally from the Workbench.

Fixed reconnecting audio that has moved to iCloud Drive on a Mac.

Fixed

• Songs moved into iCloud Drive can be reconnected on a Mac. When TraxxTool says a song's audio is not where it was and offers to find it, iCloud Drive is now in the sidebar, and so is any other cloud folder you sync. Until now there was no way to reach them, so audio moved out of Downloads stayed missing.

Got your cues back out of a track that only has them as audio, and stopped a track from drifting out of time with the rest of its song on the device.

Added

• Cues from a track you already have. Right-click a track header and choose "Cues from this track". TraxxTool listens to what is said on it and puts every call back as a cue marker at the moment it was spoken, section calls tagged as sections and count-ins landing on the click. Each marker keeps its own slice of that track's audio, so the cue track your next Prepare builds is the recording itself rather than a voice imitating it. It is for the song that came back from a Stage Traxx backup with its cues flattened into an ordinary track, and for a backing track somebody called the sections over.

Fixed

• A song's tracks all export at one sample rate. A stem brought in from another session, or a spoken cue rendered at a different rate, used to be written at its own rate. Stage Traxx plays every file in a song against one clock, so that track ran ahead of the rest of the song, or came out low. Every track of a song now goes out at the song's own rate, which for an ordinary song means nothing is converted at all.
• A stem that was fractionally longer than the rest no longer starts early. Stems downloaded together are meant to share an end, and one that decoded a hair longer than its siblings was placed exactly that far in front of everything else. A real count-in is a bar or a beat and still lines up with the end of the song.

Fixed re-voicing a click track closing the app once it had finished.

Fixed

• Changing a click track's sound closed TraxxTool when it finished. The new click was made correctly and the song was saved; it was the message telling you so that failed, and it took the app down with it. Reopening the song showed the work had been done all along. The same fault sat behind the undo labels for clearing markers.

Added light kits, so a song plays on the lights it was built for, and aiming that lands several moving heads on the same spot.

Added

• Light kits. A kit is one named set of lighting: every light, every group, the stage layout. Bands with different lighting can each have their own, and a song plays on one of them. Every kit you own travels in the show file, so ShowVizz has the right one for whatever song is playing.
• Moving a song to another kit. TraxxTool works out which of the new kit's lights stand in for the old ones and shows you that before it changes anything. Overrule any of it, and anything that cannot carry across is named rather than quietly dropped. The kit keeps your answers for the next song.
• Moving heads that converge. Give a kit its stage size in metres and each head its height, and several heads pointed at one spot all land on it. Zoom and focus stay with the aim.
• ShowVizz: a Lights screen for the room you are in tonight. Swap a light for the model the venue really has, out of a library of over 1,700 lights that ships with the app. Give it the address it really has, mark it not here, add the extra cans the house threw in, and flash any one light to find it on the truss. It plays from the next cue, and it is kept as a named venue for the next time you play there.
• ShowVizz: calibrating a moving head at the venue. Point the head at three marks on the floor and ShowVizz works out where it is really hanging, then re-points every cue that uses it. A list of every look that aims a head lets you check the beams before the first song.

Changed

• A show made now still opens in the ShowVizz you already have.

Fixed cancelling the stem-splitting engine download closing the app.

Fixed

• Cancelling the stem-splitting engine download closed TraxxTool. The download ends by timing how fast your computer splits a song, and pressing Cancel during that took the app down with it. Cancel now stops the timing too, so your computer is not left working on it.

Fixed a song gaining bars at the front every time you opened it.

Fixed

• A song could gain bars at the front and drift out of time. Where a song's audio sits in the song's own folder, preparing it wrote the finished audio back over that file, so opening the song again added the space at the start a second time. It got worse with every prepare.

Added a name box for Stage Traxx exports.

Added

• Name your export. The box beside the Export button fills itself in from the songs you tick: one song comes out as Artist - Title, and a set that is all one artist comes out as the artist. Type your own name in if you want a different one.

Changed

• Exports are no longer named after the date and time. If that name is already in your Exports folder the date is added to it, so an export still never replaces one you have.

A wide pass over the app. Exports come out in time, work stops going missing, and the app speaks up when something has gone wrong instead of carrying on quietly.

Added

• Stop a Library export part way through. Backups, combined projects and backing-track exports can all be cancelled now. It stops between songs, so everything already written is finished and usable.

Fixed

• A stem with selection areas on it exported out of time. In a song using warp markers or a tempo map, that stem was stretched without them and drifted against everything else. It sounded right in the Workbench and only came out wrong in the exported files.
• The click drifted when the intro count was merged into it. That merged click was built by a different route to every other stem and never picked up the song's warp. It is now rendered exactly the same way as the rest.
• Lyrics you had typed but not applied were thrown away. Closing the Lyrics Studio with Escape, or with the window's own close button, discarded them without a word. Both ask now, and keeping your words is the default.
• Closing certain dialogs could take the whole app down with them. Seven of them, the chart browser and the scene manager among them, could kill the app if you closed them while they were still working.
• A song prepared from a band share or a download went missing. The workbench cleared and the notification said it was done, but the Library never listed it: its audio and its project file were written to two different places. A song this already happened to comes right by opening it again and preparing it once more.
• Two songs with the same title overwrote each other's stems. Exporting a set holding both put them in one folder, so the second song replaced the first.
• Switching songs threw away unsaved edits without asking. Only closing a song asked first. Loading another one, dropping in new stems and applying a chart all ask now.
• A stem that fails to load is named. It used to be missing from the song with nothing said about it.
• A guide cue that could not be generated stops the export and asks. Before, it went out silent, which you found out about on stage.
• Choosing your Project Root again could scramble the Library. Picking the same folder spelled a slightly different way made every song look new, which emptied playlists and dropped everything into Unsorted.
• A Library that cannot be read or saved says so. Folder moves, playlist edits and keyword changes used to stop saving silently and were gone by the next launch.

Setting a Project Root now reaches Medley Studio straight away.

Fixed

• Medley Studio sees your Project Root the moment you set it. It read your library once when the app started, so a Project Root chosen afterwards left the Medley shelf empty and "Add songs" telling you to set a Project Root in Settings - over a root that was set and saved. It only came right on the next launch.
• "Add songs" says what is actually missing. An empty shelf with a Project Root set now says there are no prepared songs in your library yet, instead of sending you back to Settings.

Fixed splitting a song into stems on Intel Macs.

Fixed

• Splitting a song into stems failed on every Intel Mac, saying it could not load the Demucs model. The download was carrying an incomplete copy of that engine, which hid the working one you had installed.
• The Intel Mac download is a lot smaller, and the download page gives its real size.

Songs go into a large backup in seconds without needing the backup's size again in free space, and the backing-track downloader on a Mac repairs its own browser driver.

Fixed

• Writing songs into a large backup no longer needs the backup's size again in free space. Exiting live edit used to copy the whole backup into a new file beside it, so two songs into a 150 GB backup wanted 150 GB free and took as long as the copy did. The songs are now written into the backup where it lies: the new audio is added, the song list is updated, and everything already in the file stays exactly where it was. It takes seconds and needs room for the new songs only. If the disk fills or the app is closed part way through, the backup is put back as it was.
• The backing-track downloader repairs its own browser driver. When the driver inside the app will not start on a Mac, it is run again without its just-in-time compiler, then a Node.js already on the machine is tried, and failing that a copy is fetched from nodejs.org and checked against its published hash. Only when none of those work is the driver's own error shown.

Lyrics come across from a Stage Traxx backup, the device catalog fits on a laptop screen, and a backup that will not fit on the disk is refused before it starts.

Added

• Get Lyrics from a Backup. Select songs in the Library, point at a Stage Traxx backup, and your own lyric sheets are put on them, matched by title. No audio is copied, so it costs nothing on disk and takes seconds.
• Fetch Lyrics & Chords for songs already in your library. Select any number of songs, right-click, and the words (and, with a chord plugin, the chart) are looked up in the background for the ones that have none.
• The backup picker shows what an import will cost. Every song lists the space its stems take, the selection adds up as you pick, and it is held against the free space where your library lives.

Fixed

• Lyrics come across from a Stage Traxx backup. Sheets typed on the iPad and never tapped, lines timed to a whole second, and section headings were all dropped, so a song with a full sheet arrived with no lyrics. Everything comes in now; words without timing are spread over the song, ready for Auto-Sync.
• A backup import stops when the disk fills. It used to keep going and fail every remaining song one at a time. Now it stops at the first and says how many were left.
• A Live Backup that will not fit is refused before it starts. Writing songs into a large backup on a nearly full disk used to copy for as long as the disk lasted and then fail with an error number. It now says how much room it needs and how much there is, and nothing is written.
• The device catalog scrolls, and it has a search box. On a laptop the list ran off the bottom of the screen, taking the X Air and X32 mixers and the Close button with it. Typing "XR18", "Behringer" or "mixer" narrows it.
• The Behringer mixers say which mixers they are. "X Air Mixer" is now "Behringer X Air Mixer (XR12 / XR16 / XR18)", and "X32 / M32 Mixer" is "Behringer X32 / Midas M32 Mixer".
• The backing-track downloader on a Mac. Its browser driver is signed with the same permissions Node.js ships its own copies with, and a refresh that fails now says what the driver reported instead of blaming your internet connection.
• A problem report lists your plugins and their versions. It used to say you had none.
• The Rig page's Send line gives both numbers for a preset, the one you typed and the one sent, because a device that shows preset 34 on its screen wants 33 on the wire.

Fixed a Medley Studio crash on Intel Macs, and a download browser that would not start.

Fixed

• Shaping a crossfade in Medley Studio closed the app on Intel Macs.
• The backing-track downloader no longer asks you to "run playwright install". The browser it needs is downloaded again whenever it will not start, half downloaded or damaged. The bar says which part is downloading and how far along it is, instead of sitting at 4%.
• A refresh that fails writes the reason to the log, so a problem report carries it.
• A problem report no longer carries your backing-track account password. The account list in the diagnostics is scrubbed like every other secret.

Added a folder import for finished backing tracks, rebuilt Harmony Studio on the song's timeline, and the Mac downloads now open without a warning.

Import

• Import a Folder. A button in the Library, and File > Import a Folder of Songs, takes a folder of finished backing tracks and brings every one in as a TraxxTool song. Pro.
• The voice on the click side becomes cue markers. Count-ins land on the ticks, "Chorus" and "Verse" are tagged as sections, and each marker keeps its own slice of the original voice, so the cue track you export is the one you recorded.
• A clean click on the original's ticks. Same count-in, same tempo changes, without the voice and the noise.
• Numbered files are your set order. "1 - Opener", "2 - Second Song" import in that order, without the numbers, into a playlist named after the folder.
• Lyrics and chords for the whole folder, fetched in the background after the import.
• Watch every song go in. One window, a row per song, with where it is and what came of it. Leave a song out, stop after this one, retry the ones that failed. Clicking the task in the header brings the window back.
• Section calls heard on import become regions when the song has none.

Harmony Studio

• Your takes sit on the song's timeline. The song and its lyrics on top, a row per take under the part you sang it to. Drag a take to move it, drag its ends to trim.
• Bars or time on the ruler, with the song's sections named. A moved take snaps to the beat.
• Harmonize. Right-click a take for a third above, a sixth below or an octave up, moved along the song's scale.
• Add to song as stems. Your harmony lines become Backing Vocals tracks in the song.
• Your phone shows the count-in and turns red while the take rolls.
• Rehearse in the Bandroom can queue the harmony lines after each song.

Finding your exports

• Exports folder. A button next to Export in the Library opens the folder your Stage Traxx exports go to. Also under File > Show Exports Folder, and in Settings under the project root.
• Click a "saved" message to go to the file. Every export, backup and mix message opens the folder with the file selected, and so does the notification when the job finishes.

Devices

• The Kemper panel says what is wrong. A connection check under the banner walks the path one step at a time and stops at the first step that fails, with what to do about it. Copy report puts it on the clipboard.
• The Kemper panel no longer says Not connected while live MIDI is pointed at the Profiler.

Fixed

• Mac downloads open without a warning. Every Mac build is signed and notarized with Apple, so no right-click > Open.
• ShowVizz for Mac installed from TraxxTool now runs.
• Cloud stem splitting handles long songs, and several at once. Songs up to 30 minutes, each on its own GPU.
• The backing-track downloader signs in once per session, not once per song. When the store shows something other than its sign-in form, the browser window opens on it so you can see what it wants.
• The bar grid is drawn over the stems, not hidden behind them.
• A Stage Traxx share no longer carries the Backups folder.
• A title with a dash inside brackets, "Public Shows (1 - 3) 4 Piece", exported as a song called "Public Shows (1". The dash is read as part of the name.

Add-ons

• Kemper MIDI 1.1.0, backing-track downloader 1.4.2.

Fixed the ShowVizz download on a Mac, and a crash when opening a project from a folder macOS protects.

Fixed

• TraxxTool gets ShowVizz for your Mac. It had been offering the stage player to Windows machines only. Lighting Studio fetches the right one now, Apple Silicon or Intel.
• Opening a project from a protected folder closed the app. On macOS, Documents, Desktop and iCloud Drive folders need your permission before TraxxTool can read them. It says which folder it could not read, and where to grant access.

Added Logic Pro as an export option, and a say in which track each stem plays on.

Export

• Logic Pro. Export your songs as a Logic project. Double-click it and they are laid out one after another, each at its own tempo, with a marker at every song and every section. The audio is inside the project file, so there is nothing to relink.
• Your MIDI cues come with them. Rig changes, block switches and notes land on their own track, on the right bars.
• So do levels and mutes. A stem you turned down is down in Logic, a stem you muted is muted, and both are still yours to change.
• Exporting several songs asks how you want them. All of them on one timeline, or a project per song in a folder. Reaper and Ableton too.
• You choose which track each stem plays on. Songs across, tracks down: drag a stem where you want it, or leave it out. One button works out the fewest tracks that still play everything, keeping the guitars together and the vocals together.
• A hard-panned stem stays panned in Ableton when two songs share a track and are panned differently.
• Stems as M4A. Settings, Export, Stem format. M4A is AAC, better sound than MP3 at the same size. A Reaper project gets those stems as WAV.

Lyrics

• Genius can supply the words. With the plugin set up, Auto-Sync asks whether to look them up on LRCLIB or Genius, and Genius covers songs LRCLIB has not got.
• A song with almost no singing still syncs. The words are timed from the database instead, and the studio says the timing is estimated.
• Tap Sync. Press it once, then Tap, Space or Enter stamps each line as you hear it.
• Syncing again leaves your own cues alone. It removes only the section markers it placed last time.
• The lyrics show as soon as a sync finishes, without switching tabs.
• Tidy with AI waits out a busy AI service instead of giving up on the first try.

Timeline

• Cues copy and paste in beats. Copy Verse, 2, 3, 4 once and paste it at every verse. In a song at another tempo they still land on the beats.
• Cue groups. Right-click selected cues, Save as Cue Group, and place the lot in any song from the Add Marker menu.
• Shift+drag a shared region edge to open a gap between two regions.
• Click a marker's flag to select it, not only the stem.

Fixed

• A cut-out section came back during playback. Editing an area, changing the click or adding a stem after a cut put the uncut audio back until you reopened the song.
• A song whose stems have moved now asks where they went. Point it at the folder and every stem is found by name, or open the song anyway with those tracks silent.
• The last region stopped short of the end of the song by the length of the count-in.
• Adding a bar at the start ran the click over the title cue. The cue moves with the click and keeps its gap.
• Regions from cues includes a cue you placed yourself, like Solo.
• Pause and Skip regions play as they do on the device. A Pause region stops at its end, a Skip region is jumped.

Pro and Cloud unlock on Intel Macs.

Fixed

• Signed in on an Intel Mac, still treated as Community. The Intel build could not read a licence, so Pro and Cloud stayed locked after signing in. They unlock once this update is installed.

A marker that fires several MIDI commands sends them in your order, and the MaestroDMX joins the device list.

Fixed

• A marker's MIDI commands go out in the order you wrote them. A Generic MIDI message in the list, or a device whose plugin is switched off, could jump to the front, so a bank select or a preset change arrived out of order and the gear landed on the wrong sound.

Add-ons

• MaestroDMX. Pick a cue for the chorus, hold a blackout on the last hit, ride the global brightness, swap a fixture group's palette. The box takes MIDI on DIN only, so you need a USB to DIN dongle.

Names fixed in the Library now reach Stage Traxx, a song share carries one playlist, and the AI can sort a library into playlists.

Fixed

• A title, artist or year fixed in the Library did not export. The export read the copy saved when the song was last prepared. It reads the current one now, so Tidy Details and Rename reach the device without opening every song again.
• A song share with several playlists arrived as one. Stage Traxx treats a share as a single playlist. When the songs you export sit in more than one, you are asked which playlist the share is, or none. A Full Backup still carries them all.

Library

• Suggest Playlists. Tell your AI what kind of nights you play and it sorts the library into named playlists, a song in as many as fit. Tick, rename, Create.
• Remove chord lines already inline. Moises and some other lyric exports write a line of nothing but chords above a lyric line that already carries the same chords. Right-click songs to drop the duplicates. Also in the Lyrics Studio menu and the Batch Editor.
• Exporting from the Library ends with a count: songs, how many lack an artist or a year, playlists and their entries.
• Tidying up to 6 songs at a time is free. A whole library in one go is Pro.

Two bulk jobs in the Library: tidying up song names, and building playlists from a set list.

Library

• Tidy Details checks every song's title, artist and year, and shows what it would change before changing anything. Tick the rows you want, fix anything it got wrong, Apply.
• It reads each song's own file tags, strips what a filename leaves behind (track numbers, underscores, "(Official Video)", the artist stuck in the title), then confirms the spelling and release year against MusicBrainz. Anything still in doubt goes to your AI, if you have one set up.
• Songs with a proper title and artist are the ones Ultimate Guitar and Genius can find.
• Tidying a few songs at a time is free. A whole library in one go is Pro.
• Paste a Set List. Paste the list your band already has, or open a .txt, .m3u or .csv. Every line is matched to a song in your library, and you can pick a different one where it guessed wrong.
• "Set 2" or a blank line splits the list into separate playlists, or into the sets of one playlist.

Getting songs in

• A file's tags name the song. A backing track that says who it is by arrives with its title, artist and year already filled in.

Fixed

• Every song exported to Stage Traxx said 2026. A song with no year now exports without one. Set it in Song Details, or let Tidy Details find it.

Stereo backing tracks, click-left/band-right files and an existing Stage Traxx library all get a proper front door.

Getting songs in

• A stereo backing track is a Mix. One track type for the whole band in one file, with its own colour and bus row. A song called "Piano Man" no longer lands on the keys bus because of its title.
• Split into stems is the recommended path. The import dialog says so, and when a click is found on one side, "then split the music into stems too" is on by default.
• Import a folder of finished tracks in one go. A watched folder of titled files lists one song per file, and Add to Library asks once for the whole batch: split into stems (with a time estimate), separate the click side only, or open as one track now and split later.
• Files it cannot place are listed, never decided for you. Desk recordings with more than two channels still go through the Channel Mapper.
• A click-left/band-right song gets its tempo from its click on import.

Click and tempo

• Add Click follows the song. With no click in the song it reads the beat from the mix and places a click that follows it, count-in included, already in time. Steady tempo is still there for songs with no clear beat.
• Detect Tempo reads a real click when the song has one.

Lyrics

• Auto-Sync works without a vocal stem. It offers to split into stems and sync, sync against the full mix as a quick first pass, or pick a track.
• A song synced against the mix says so, with "Split and sync again" beside it.

Export

• Stereo backing track. One full-stereo file per song, with .lrc and .txt lyric sidecars.
• Left/right backing track. Click and cues on one side, the band on the other, and you choose which side the click takes.
• A "Left/right rig" bus preset, and an option to write mono left/right bus outputs into a full backup, off by default.
• Export the original mix instead of the stems, per song, in Stage Traxx details.
• Output buses is a page now. Open it from "Output buses…" on the Library's export row or from the Rig tab: every track type in one list, drag it into the order you want, pick the bus beside each name. The spoken cues are a row in it, so you choose where the cue track lands in the song.
• Import from Backup carries the attached MIDI file, brings a one-track song in as a Mix, spots click-on-one-side songs and offers to separate them, then offers the stem split for the batch.
• Bandroom says when a song is one stereo mix, so members know they will get the full mix only.

Workbench

• End goes to the end, F zooms to fit. Both are in Settings, Shortcuts, like every other key.
• Shorter labels, tooltips that wrap. The explainer text under controls has moved into tooltips, and no tooltip runs off the screen any more.

Add-ons

• Ultimate Guitar Chords 1.3.2 searches again by artist when the title page is all someone else's versions.

Fixed

• A re-exported song keeps the keywords set on the device.
• The Custom MIDI Commands dialog shows the times the export writes.
• A stereo stem panned to one side comes out right in the Stage Traxx 3 single-mix export.
• The Band Mix of a song with no click plays in both ears. It was right-ear only.
• Dropping an .m4a onto the Workbench works. It was refused.

Chords that land in the right key, bars and beats on the ruler, and a round of fixes.

Fixed

• The Downloader could delete a folder of your own. A song from a watched folder offered "Delete Downloaded Files" and took your original folder with it. Downloads go to the Recycle Bin now.
• A capo did nothing on a fresh iPad. Stage Traxx ships with Transpose Chords switched off. A new backup turns it on when a song needs it.
• Cifra Club chords reach the stage as chords. A7(4), C7M and Gdim arrived as plain text.
• The library's export tick boxes could disappear with no way to get them back.
• A pasted Google model name works. "models/gemini-2.5-flash" is trimmed for you.

Chords

• Import Chords puts the sheet in your song's key. Ultimate Guitar and Cifra Club send their key, capo and tuning along with it, so a tab written in Em shapes with a capo on 2 is stored as the F#m you actually hear.
• The song's capo is set from the sheet, so Stage Traxx still shows you the Em shapes you play.
• TraxxTool works out the key from your stems when nothing has recorded one. Type over it if you know better.
• Capo sits next to Pitch in the Inspector, with a line under it saying what the chords read as on stage.
• The chord strip and the sync map show what the stage shows. Change the pitch or the capo and every chord on screen follows.
• A warning when the chords are in the wrong key, with the fix beside it.
• Nashville numbers, in Song Details. In G, "G C D Em" becomes "1 4 5 6m".

Bars and beats

• The ruler counts bars. Switch it on the ruler or the transport readout. The grid comes off your click track and moves with a Time Shift.
• Fix the bars when the click is wrong. Drag a bar line for a 2/4 before the chorus or a bridge in three, and the click is rebuilt to match.
• Toolbars fit the window instead of wrapping onto a second row.

Lyrics and Stage Traxx 4.1

• Lyrics Studio shows the words the way the stage will. Bold is bold, red is red, and a formatting bar writes the markup for you. The Markup tab beside it still shows the tags.
• Sets in playlists, kept the way the device keeps them.
• Song folders reach Stage Traxx, and come back when you import a backup.
• A PDF chart per song, travelling in the song's folder.

Getting songs in

• Split a track into stems from its header. It keeps playing until the stems are ready.
• Dropping a folder of songs asks what you meant instead of loading every file as a lane.
• Sort tracks by type from any track header.

Changed

• The Inspector has a close button.
• Song Details has "Trim & fades on the timeline".
• The track header's Areas menu starts with "Mark an area to silence".

Add-ons: Ultimate Guitar Chords 1.3.1 and Cifra Club Chords 1.1.1.

Fixed

• A launch that keeps dying before the window appears now gets through. After three of those in a row, TraxxTool opens at its default size with the standard title bar and tells you why. Move or resize the window and it remembers your layout again.
• A crash report now says what you were doing. When the app goes down hard, the report you send carries the trail from the run that died, plus the system's own crash log on macOS.

Fixed

• A song no longer restarts itself while it plays. Some machines announce an audio device change every few seconds, and each one sent the song back to the beginning. Playback stays where it is now, and switching to another output picks up where you were.

A round of Medley Studio work: new controls on the ruler and the Song tab, and fixes to undo, playback and the view.

Added

• Meter changes live on the ruler. Click the count above any song to change it, have it detected from the recording, or put the song back on the medley's count. Right-click the ruler to change the count from any beat.
• The Song tab plays the whole song. Playback started there plays the selected song past both ends of your excerpt, so you can find the part you want before it is in the medley. "Always play the medley" turns it off.
• A minutes and seconds ruler under the bar numbers, in the Panels menu. Off by default.
• Scrollbars on the Song tab, the same zooming bar as the main timeline.
• The click has a level, in the medley panel with the count-in.
• "Set automatically" beside each song's Trim. On, the level is matched from the part of the song you actually use, and moving your selection measures it again. Off, the trim is yours and nothing overwrites it.
• "Combine repeated tracks into one", for players that cannot handle a dozen tracks at once: Bass (2) and Bass (3) arrive as one Bass. Off by default.

Fixed

• Undo and redo work in Medley Studio. Ctrl+Z did nothing at all. Crossfade drags and resetting a track to its preset can be taken back now too.
• Space plays and stops, as it does in the Workbench.
• Dragging a clip's end no longer jumps the view back to its start.
• Follow waits instead of fighting you. Scroll while it plays and it parks in amber until you press Play again.
• A long crossfade over a tempo change stays in time. The audio either side of a join counts with the click instead of drifting against it.
• Song changes announce themselves on first open. With the spoken cues switched on, the voice arrives with the medley rather than after a refresh.
• Match levels responds when you toggle it. It used to change nothing until the next render. A song added after that render gets a level too.
• Send to Workbench can be left running. There is a Run in background button, and your medley is saved before the render starts.
• Shift trims by beats, on the main timeline and on the Song tab's Start and End buttons.
• Open and Save start in your medley folder, and recent medleys are on the opening screen.

Fixed

• An update no longer installs itself over the copy you are still using. On Mac the installer could replace TraxxTool underneath a session that was still open, which then crashed the next time it needed to load something, sometimes hours later. It now leaves a running TraxxTool alone and installs when you quit, and your downloaded update is kept for that.

Fixed

• Your lyric edits survive Apply. Splitting a section in two, adding a [Solo] for an instrumental, or relabelling a section all quietly vanished when the text was applied. Everything you type now sticks, and applying the same text twice changes nothing.
• An instrumental section is a real section. A [Solo] with no lines under it keeps its place, gets a time, can become a region, and reaches Stage Traxx as a heading.
• Two same-named sections in a row stay two sections - in the editor, in Regions from Lyrics, and in the exported headings.

Fixed

• Silencing part of a track now actually goes silent. The silenced audio was being prepared correctly and then never handed to the part of the app that plays sound - which is why this looked fixed more than once and never was. It is now checked against the sound engine itself, not just the preparation step.
• The same repair stops a removed backing track or preview voice quietly playing on until the app restarts.

Fixed

• The update notification is safe to click again. Clicking "click to see what's new and update" and then closing the update window brought up a crash report.

Fixed

• A song with a Song Cut stays in time when you place the intro cues. The music played about a bar late while the playhead and the waveforms stayed right. Moving any cue in front of the downbeat did the same.

Added

• Fractal AM4 support. All 104 presets, the four scenes, amp channel and boost, the FX slots, tuner and tap - placed on the timeline and exported as MIDI, no MIDI learn. Enable it in Settings > Plugins, then tick the AM4 in Rig > Devices & MIDI.

Fixed

• macOS: the startup Keychain prompt is actually gone. 2.27.11 cut the prompts down to one, but that one still came up at every launch if you were signed in. TraxxTool no longer uses the macOS Keychain at all. You may see one final prompt to carry your sign-in over, and API keys may need entering again in Settings.
• Editing a cue keeps your voice. Renaming a cue marker regenerated it with the AI voice even when you had recorded that cue yourself. Edits and auto-placed cues now pick up the right recording.
• The Custom MIDI Commands window no longer squashes its fields together on macOS.

Fixed

• macOS: the Keychain prompt is gone. TraxxTool kept asking for Keychain access even with no API keys saved and nobody signed in. It now only asks about credentials it has actually stored, and if you say no it stops asking.

Fixed

• "Silence these areas" always does what it says. Picking it on a track whose areas were switched off quietly did nothing - the area stayed selected, and playing.
• The inspector edits the area it names. Switching a track's areas off used to leave one of them invisibly selected, so changes kept landing on that track no matter what you clicked next.
• Switching a track's areas back on keeps your chosen mode, instead of resetting a click to "play only these areas".

Fixed

• Selection areas work with the Regions tool active. Drawing one, resizing one and silencing part of a click all did nothing while Regions was the chosen tool - which for someone who region-marks every song was all the time.
• Auto-Sync is truly on for existing installs. 2.27.5 turned it on for new installs only; a setting saved months ago kept it off for everyone else.
• The short stem names now apply when stems are first imported. They only ran when reopening a project, so a fresh import still came in as "Drum Kit". Songs already imported get the short names next time they open; names you typed are never touched.
• A Helix (or any device) control placed from its plugin shows its name on the timeline instead of the raw MIDI numbers.
• A Pause region reaches Stage Traxx as Pause. It arrived as Skip - the stored numbers for those two modes were the wrong way round. Re-set any region that shows the wrong mode and it will export correctly now.
• A custom track type stays where you drag it in Manage Track Types, instead of snapping back to the bottom of the list.

Fixed

• "Keep its own timing" now plays what was recorded. The tempo analysis treated a held or pushed beat as a reading error and smoothed it away, so a song with real push and pull got a nearly even click. Every beat the click stem actually has now lands exactly where it was played, and "Normalise to a regular grid" (the setting formerly called "Lock it to the click") pulls those same real beats onto the grid.
• The Song tab tells the truth. The waveform no longer goes blank when you zoom out or move the selection, and the playhead sits on the audio you are hearing, in both timing modes.
• One stem, one lane. A stem you moved to another track could come back in its old lane as well, playing and drawing twice. Saved medleys carrying the double are repaired when opened.
• The crossfade tab follows the Tracks tab. Moving stems between lanes now updates the waveforms at every join.
• A timing change while playing now stops playback. The music used to carry on under the old timing while the click moved to the new one.
• Every new account gets the welcome credits. They were only arriving on Google sign-ups.

Added

• The Song tab handles like the timeline. Drag down on the ruler to zoom in, up to zoom out, sideways to scrub; Shift and the wheel pans. The nudge buttons now say which edge they move: Start and End, an arrow each way.
• Dragging a hard cut longer opens a crossfade. No need to switch the preset first. Fade drags now feel linear, can close a fade completely, and lengthening a fade no longer moves it.
• Time Shift can move every stem at once. Hold Ctrl while dragging and the whole song moves together, the click staying put. The whole-bar snap now measures the bar off the click instead of the stored tempo.

Added

• The mixer names are yours to change. Settings then Workbench then "Edit stem names" lists every short name TraxxTool gives a stem as it comes in, and you can change any of them to what you call it on your desk. Rename a track in the Workbench and that becomes the name for that kind of stem in every song from then on.
• Generic MIDI says when your gear is already supported. A Helix, Quad Cortex, X32, Qu or CQ has a plugin carrying the manufacturer's own control names, so you place "Snapshot select" instead of counting out a CC number.

Fixed

• The quiet gap after the spoken title is now a switch, off by default. With it off, the title cue lands exactly where it did before 2.27.5. Turn it on in Settings then Workbench to get the silence.
• Alt-dragging a region copy onto another region now says why it didn't land, instead of quietly vanishing.

Added

• Stem names that fit the Stage Traxx mixer. Stage Traxx shows eight characters per channel, so "Backing Vocals" now comes in as "VoxBG". Four guitars no longer all read "Electric". Names you type yourself are never changed, and you can switch the whole thing off in Settings then Workbench.
• Regions from cues, and cues from regions. Right-click the region lane. A song you have already cue-marked gets its regions in one go.
• Duplicate a region. Ctrl-D (Cmd-D on a Mac) puts a copy straight after the one you picked, or hold Alt and drag to place one anywhere.
• Name a MIDI value. "Country set" for CC 69 value 1 then shows up by name in the Add Marker menu and goes down in one click.
• A quiet gap after the spoken title. The title plays, then silence, then the count-in, so you can catch a wrong song before it starts. Set the length in Settings then Workbench.
• Regions show their playback mode on the timeline: PAUSE, LOOP, x2 or SKIP.

Fixed

• The arrow keys did nothing on a Mac. Nudging markers, Beat Nudge and jumping from marker to marker all worked on Windows and silently failed on macOS.
• Silencing part of a click that has added bars. The added bars carried on playing.
• A region can now cover the count-in. It used to stop dead at the first beat of the song.
• Right-clicking a track near the bottom of the screen cut the bottom off the channel strip.
• Auto-Sync is on by default, and when it does need something it names the setting that will unblock it. It used to point at a settings page that no longer exists.
• Credits added to your account now work for voice generation.
• Open Project asks for the song's folder, instead of a file called project_state.json that sits in every one of them.

Fixed

• An out-of-date download source plugin no longer closes TraxxTool. Loading its tracks shows a warning naming the plugin to reinstall.
• A song with a bad purchase date no longer takes the app down. The Purchased column reads blank, the same as a song whose source never sent one.

Fixed

• A medley with one song in it played silence. Dragging an edge sometimes let it through, which is why resizing a block seemed to fix it.
• The first song faded in across its whole length. Same cause.
• Start from empty opened a medley you could not see, with the timeline still behind the welcome screen.
• Moving a clip to another part of a song re-reads that part's tempo. It kept the tempo of the part it used to be, so a ballad opening played at the tempo of the rock section it came from.
• A part that changes tempo now locks to the click. It was played at one flat tempo instead, which sounds fine and is a third of a second out by the end. The Doctor says when locking a part costs a lot of stretch.
• Songs stay in time with the click after an edit, instead of drifting until you stopped and moved the playhead.
• The count-in is where you can hear it. The bar in front of the song was ruled at the song's average tempo rather than the one it counts in at, so the first count sat outside the earliest place you could start.

Fixed

• Starting a clip in the count-in now brings the count-in with it. The handle moved into those bars in 2.27.1; the bars themselves stayed out of the medley.
• A song whose click is only its four-beat intro count is now named. The medley was reading the whole song's tempo off those four beats and playing it at that tempo. The Doctor says which songs these are and to download them again.
• One misread beat no longer pulls a whole song off the grid.

Fixed

• A song set to keep its own timing had the click fighting it. The click follows the song now, landing on the beats as they were played however uneven they are.
• You can start a medley clip in the count-in. Dragging the start into the bars before the song begins used to jump forward to bar 1.
• An exported medley plays like the one you built. Its timing could come out different from what you heard in the preview.

Track colours you set once, and a Medley Studio that counts each song its own way.

Track types and colours

• The built-in track types can be recoloured and reordered. Drag them into the order you keep your stems in, and click one to give it a colour.
• A track's colour follows its instrument, not its place in the list. The same guitar used to come out a different colour in every song.
• New songs arrive in your order: click first, then drums through to backing vocals.
• A colour for one track, from the dot beside its name, when two keys parts need telling apart in a single song. Leave it empty and it follows its type.
• The default colours are bolder, and related types no longer share a hue.

Stage Traxx

• Colours arrive on the iPad exactly as you set them on Stage Traxx 4.1: tracks, regions and the app tint. On 4.0 they land on the nearest swatch it has, imported region colours included.
• 4.0 or 4.1 is a setting (Settings > Export) rather than a guess.
• Colours you import from the iPad now match what it shows. Several were noticeably off, pink worst.
• The app tint came out one colour along.

Medley Studio

• A count-in stem plays instead of being dropped along with the click.
• Each song can keep its own time signature. Put a waltz next to a 6/8 shuffle and each one counts its own way.
• The tempo comes from the part you are using. A song filed at 128 whose breakdown runs at 92 used to play 39% fast.
• A song can keep its own timing, for a performance that was never on a grid like the opening of Bohemian Rhapsody.
• A piano note on the downbeat, so whoever comes in next knows what to pitch. Offered in the song's key, as one note or a chord.

Fixed

• Installing an update threw command prompt windows at you and only finished once you closed them.
• Tempo normalising offers a way through instead of refusing. A song with no tempo set is offered the one its click reads.
• A toast that says "click here" can be clicked.
• A support report reaches a person, in full, with a reply that comes back to you.

Fixed

• Adding downloaded songs to your library crashed. "Make a Medley from these" did too. Both work now.

Songs from the download plugin

• A song with both a count-in and a click now downloads both. Affected songs arrived with no click track at all. Update the downloader to 1.4.1, then download one again to pick up the missing file.
• The Downloader says Incomplete when a song is short a track. It could call a song finished while one of its tracks had never arrived.
• A whole selection goes into the library in one go, and on to Medley Studio.
• A second Download pressed while the first was running made both go wrong: the smaller job went green early and the larger one never finished.
• The search box says Search.

Fixed

• A login typed into a plugin's settings page saved nothing when the plugin was installed with Settings already open. Closing the window from a half-typed field dropped that field too.
• The Workbench showed a Rig section for a rig nobody had. It hid itself only when a device plugin owned it.
• The first song's count-in arrived silent, and regenerating one marker at a time was the only way out.
• Signing in left the credits balance reading "-" until you pressed Refresh.

Fixed

• An export stops and names any song you have not prepared yet. It used to write a Stage Traxx file with nothing in it, which imported without a word and added no songs.

The areas you mark on a track, rebuilt.

Marked areas

• Turning the tool off no longer deletes your areas. They are parked, and pressing the button again brings them back with their routing.
• "Play only these areas" was drawn as its own opposite. The greying sat over the part that was going to be heard.
• An area you send to another track stays sent. Dragging its edge afterwards quietly threw away the destination and the level.
• X silences the areas on a track, O makes them all that plays. Both keys are in the Keyboard Shortcuts editor like everything else.
• The K button is gone. It exempted a track from muting in DAW exports and did nothing anywhere else. A muted track now exports muted.
• The header button reads A, X or O, so it tells you which of the two states the track is in instead of naming the tool.
• The inspector has two options, "Silence these areas" and "Play only these areas", with a line under them saying what happens outside your areas. "Leave the track alone" is now a per-area "Keep playing here as well".
• The list of places to send an area is just track names, plus Nowhere else, Cue track and A track of its own. That last one could previously only exist in a song carried over from an older version.
• The lifted lane is called Marked areas. Export a song that had one under the old name and both the file and the device track take the new one.
• A second click track made from a duplicate now says it landed on the same bus and sound as the first.

Songs from the download plugin

• A key you set on the site comes back with the song. The audio still comes down in the original key, and TraxxTool opens it at the pitch you were working at. Update the downloader to 1.4.0 for it.
• KEY, next to SPEED and PITCH. It follows the pitch as you move it. A key worked out from the song's chords rather than read off the page is marked with a "?".

Fixed

• Undoing a cut preview silenced every track set to play only its areas, in exactly the bars it was drawn to play.

Your light show, built from the markers you already have.

Lights and video

• A rig of real fixtures. TraxxTool ships the QLC+ fixture library, so most lights you own are already in the list by make and model.
• Fixtures with more than one lamp behave like it. A bar of four heads chases across its own lamps instead of flashing as one block.
• Moving heads. Point every selected mover at a spot on the stage and the look holds them there; movement effects swing around that aim.
• A cue can do two things at once. Pick a colour animation and a movement animation on the same cue.
• A brightness trim per light, for the one fixture in the rig that is twice as bright as the rest.
• Video cues are their own thing now, with their own dialog, their own editing and their own place on the Screen strip.
• Every layer is conformed to your screen's real shape, so a 16:9 clip on a wide LED wall stops being stretched.
• Play in ShowVizz. Tick the box and the stage player opens beside the workbench and follows your transport: play, stop, drag the playhead and it goes there. Same machine only.
• A fixture editor, for the light nobody has written a profile for.
• Fixture sets, so the four pars either side of the drum riser are one thing you can aim at.
• Update ShowVizz too. Lighting Studio offers 1.1.0, and the movement, the colour wheels and the live preview all need it.

Medley Studio

• The Tracks board. Say which stem of each song plays through which track, and see it at a glance. A crossfade only happens between two stems in the same track, so this is the thing that decides how the medley sounds.
• Loop a crossfade while you shape it. It lands in the same place every pass.
• Ctrl means every track. A plain drag on a seam is the lane you are pointing at.
• A song you prepared today shows up on the shelf today. It used to need a restart.

On the timeline

• MIDI can belong to a region. Right-click a region, hang the commands on its start or its end, and they move with it when you move it. Harmony on for the chorus and off afterwards, in one place instead of two markers you have to keep chasing.
• A region can talk to more than one device at once. A marker fires one; a region can fire the vocal box, the pedalboard and the desk together.
• Commands can fire when the song loads. The patch your keyboard needs before the band plays has to have happened already, and a marker near the start is not the same thing: trim the lead-in and playback never reaches it. There is a "When playback starts" and a "When playback stops" too.
• New section markers land on the bar line. A lyric line is timed to the first word somebody sings, but the section started on the bar before it. Any marker you have already placed or moved is left alone.
• Silence a downloaded count-in without touching the file. Right-click the click track and those bars go quiet. Nothing moves, nothing is trimmed, and the same menu puts it back.

Two more devices, and a name that was wrong

• Fender Tone Master Pro. All 504 presets by bank and number, the eight effects footswitches, looper, tuner, tap tempo, master volume and the expression pedals.
• Roland FANTOM-06, 07 and 08. All 512 scenes, typed the way Roland's own sound list prints them, plus per-zone tone changes, the pedals and the tone-edit controls.
• Allen & Heath CQ. Channel, DCA, mute-group and output mutes, send levels, pan and scene recalls.
• The VoiceLive integration now says VoiceLive 3 and 3 Extreme (VL3X). Same plugin, same commands. A VL3X owner had no way to know it was for them.

Splitting a song

• Both options tell you how long they will take. "On this computer" and "TraxxTool Cloud" now show a time range measured from real splits on real machines, yours included once you have done a few. With nothing to go on it shows no number rather than a guess.

Fixed

• TraxxTool reads a song's tempo right far more often. On the songs in our test library it went from about four in five right to nearly nine in ten.
• A third of the fixture library could not light up, or could not take a colour. Lights with a shutter came out dark, and lights that colour by wheel came out white.
• Movers move in fine steps. They were stepping in whole degrees.
• A moving head no longer moves slower the dimmer it gets.
• A colour chase runs the way you set it. It ran backwards, and on the spread presets it did nothing at all.
• Warmth does something now. It only ever worked when white was already up.
• The video preview plays the real file. It was stuttering on files that play perfectly everywhere else.
• Downloads come down in the song's original key. A key you had set on the source's own page was baked into every download after it, without saying so. Untick "Always download in the original key" in the source's settings to keep taking its transposed audio.
• A "[Chorus]" line in your lyrics stays visible on the iPad. It was rendering as an empty gap.
• A 4.1 MIDI macro survives a backup. TraxxTool now warns by name when an export mentions a "$CODE" it cannot account for.
• A topping cut leaves your pedal markers alone. A delay switched on inside the removed intro used to come back on at bar one.
• A library folder TraxxTool cannot write to no longer kills the app.
• Opening a song whose folder has gone no longer kills the app.
• The Rig catalog's "Installed" box no longer kills the app.

Fixed

• TraxxTool could keep running after you closed it. If it was looking for a HeadRush at the time, the window went away but the app stayed up in the background.
• A HeadRush that was switched on could still show as offline. It stayed that way, Connect included, until TraxxTool was restarted.

Fixed

• Splitting a song into stems on your own computer failed on Intel Macs. It stopped with "Numpy is not available" before writing anything. Library cleanup, which uses the same engine, failed the same way.

Fixed

• Harmony Studio could crash when you stopped a recording. Cancelling a take during the count-in left the microphone open, and the next Record press opened a second one on the same device.

Fixed

• Auto-Sync overcharged for timing your own lyrics. A chart you pasted needs no lookup, but it was priced as one, and could be refused when you had enough credits for the real job.
• Auto-Sync no longer warns about a missing artist name when nothing is being searched for.

New

• TraxxTool can ask where you got stuck. At the end of the tour it asks once whether it may send five one time events, such as first launch and first export. Never your audio, song titles, file names or lyrics. Change your answer any time in Settings.
• Update checks now report the version and platform, and a random identifier made on first run, so installs are counted once. The privacy page covers both.
• Spanish covers the new wording.

Rehearsal mixes are made from your song, not from the files it started as.

Fixed

• Rehearsal mixes were built from the original downloaded stems. The count-in was missing, the click sat seconds away from the drums, and endings were cut short. They now come from the same engine that renders an export.
• Sharing a harmony failed on every song. Harmony Studio recorded and tuned a take, then stopped with "No stems to render the guide over".
• The bed you sing against in Harmony Studio is now the song as TraxxTool plays it, count-in and all.
• A share interrupted by a server restart no longer leaves the song with no mixes.

New

• Start a band without leaving TraxxTool. Share to Bandroom used to stop and send you to the website to make one. It now asks for a name and what you play, then gets on with the share.
• Each part ships as the band without it, plus that part on its own. The band page plays both with one slider between them, so you set how much of yourself you hear.

Fixed

• A problem report now carries your account. If TraxxTool had been open more than a few minutes, the report went in anonymously, so you never heard back about the fix.

Fix a library full of badly named tracks.

New

• Clean up, in the Batch Editor. Pick the songs in a Stage Traxx backup and TraxxTool works out what each track is, then puts every proposal in one table with how sure it is. Only the rows you tick are applied.
• Tracks with a usable name are read instantly. The rest are identified by listening, on your own computer. No audio leaves it.
• The first analysis that needs to listen offers the stem-splitting engine, which takes it from about eight seconds a track to one. It is optional.
• Analysing the same library again is instant.

Fixed

• The Video tab no longer errors if you have a band profile. Opening it, or coming back from Manage bands, failed with "'str' object is not callable".
• The Screen preview plays again. It could not build the small preview copies it runs on, so the popout stayed empty.

See your video on the timeline.

New

• The Screen strip. A song with video gets one thin lane above the timeline showing what the screen plays, lined up with the ruler. Click to jump the playhead, double-click a block to edit it.
• The Screen preview. The screen glyph on the strip opens a popout that plays what the screen would show, following the playhead. It stays silent.
• The Video tab. This song's film and cues, and your band's splash and overlay, in one place: Settings > Lighting & Video, or the Video button.
• Light mode is now called Light & Video. Same mode, new name.

Fixed

• Harmony Studio opens songs again. Picking any song failed with "This song has no audio on disk". The backing mix wrongly skipped every track not marked Keep in exports, which is most of them; it now plays everything that isn't muted.
• Bandroom rehearsal mixes render again. The same fault silently skipped them when sharing a song.

Fixed

• macOS: fixed a crash on launch. On macOS 26 the app could quit instantly, with no error, while setting up its title bar. It starts normally now.
• Sharing to the Bandroom a second time. Once one share finished, every later share in the same session failed with an error until you restarted.

Fixed

• Local stem splitting works again on Windows. Since 2.9.7 the first split on a fresh install failed with "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'write'" while downloading the separation model. If that hit you, update and split again; nothing needs reinstalling.
• The same fault could crash the app while quitting.
• A failed update now says so. If an update doesn't take, the next launch tells you you're still on the old version and points you to the download page, instead of offering the same update forever.

Sing it once. Drag the harmony under it.

New

• The note editor. Notes… on a harmony lane shows the take's notes on a piano roll. Drag any note to any pitch, double-click to split one, click the diamond between two to join them. The vibrato survives the move.
• See the song you sing against. The whole mix draws as a waveform under Harmony Studio's transport. Click it to move the playhead and the punch-in point.

Fixed

• Play previews the tuning. Lanes used to play raw until you shared; what you hear is now exactly what Share renders.

Sing the harmonies. Your phone is the microphone.

New

• Harmony Studio. Record vocal harmony guides over any library song, no DAW. Press Record, sing against the backing, and the take lands on a lane: trim, nudge, solo, a level fader, and a count-in at the song's tempo. Takes align themselves to the song, even from a late start.
• Your phone is the microphone. Open band.traxxtool.app/mic on your phone, enter the code Harmony Studio shows, and sing into the phone while the song plays on your computer. Works from any network.
• Tuning that keeps the singer. Off, helped, or tight: a note's centre and drift move to the pitch you meant while your vibrato and phrasing pass through untouched. When the lyrics carry chords, the tuner prefers the sounding chord's tones.
• Share harmonies to the band. Each take renders over a quieter band mix and lands on the song's harmony shelf in Bandroom.
• The TT Studio tab. Medley Studio and Harmony Studio now live behind one tab, with a switcher and a beta badge. Turn the whole tab off in Settings if you don't use it. First open asks, once, whether you'll share beta usage reports; saying no changes nothing.

The band page builds itself.

New

• Rehearsal mixes render on share. Share a song and the band page gets the full mix, a mix without each claimed instrument, and one with that part up front. Songs with cues get the full mix with cues on top.
• Members claim what they play. One pick on the band page; every share renders for whoever is in the band.
• Harmony lines have their own shelf. Any member adds a named vocal line to a song; everyone sees every line, and it plays right in the browser.

Your band gets a room.

New

• Bandroom. A private space for your band at band.traxxtool.app: rehearsal mixes, setlists, and guest links that expire. Members join free with an invite link.
• Share whole songs with your band. Right-click in the Library, Share to Bandroom. Bandmates pull them into their own library with one click. Only changed files travel, and nothing overwrites a song they already have.
• Catch up in one click. File → Bandroom shows what's new and downloads it. TraxxTool mentions new shares after launch; turn that off in Settings.
• Shared charts can bring their light show. Looks land on your rig as authored, or re-draft the show for your own rig in the same style.
• Starting a band comes with Cloud. A 100 GB mirror for you, 25 GB per band. Joining a band is free.

Fixed

• Auto-Sync now times the lyrics you already have instead of replacing them. Chords, sections and markup survive; only the timing changes.
• Start-of-song MIDI fires complete and in order on the first play and from the top, never mid-song on a resume. On export it becomes load tags Stage Traxx fires when the song loads.
• The MIDI commands dialog gains Send: fire the sequence at your device and hear it switch.
• Each song in a set drafts its own light show, not one show for the set.

Double-time now understands songs in three.

New

• Triple-time click. Many 3/4 and 6/8 backing tracks come with a click that ticks once per bar, and 2x used to split those gaps in half: two clicks against three beats. Pressing 2x now listens to the song and splits in three when that is how the song moves; the button reads 3x.
• Or pick it yourself. The click's channel strip has a 3x button next to 1/2, 1x and 2x. Your choice wins, per click track.

Fixed

• A half-time click looks thinned after reopening a project, not just sounds thinned.

Build your lights and stage video in TraxxTool, and a free player runs them at the gig.

New

• Lighting & Video. Build a rig from real fixture profiles, let TraxxTool draft a show from the song's sections, and fine-tune it on the timeline. Video rides along: films, clips on cues, a splash between songs, your logo over the top. Preview it all on the stage plan at home.
• ShowVizz, the free stage player for Windows, Mac and Linux. It follows your Stage Traxx 4 iPad over MIDI and drives the lights and the video wall, with nobody behind a laptop. TraxxTool installs the matching build for you.
• Export a Stage show. Tick songs, a playlist, or nothing at all for the whole library, and TraxxTool writes one .ttshow with every song's lights and video. The iPad's song change cues the right visuals in any set order. A damaged file is refused by name.
• Straight into ShowVizz. On the same machine the export lands in ShowVizz's shows and offers to open. Anywhere else: Open a show, a drop on the Shows screen, or a double-click on Windows.
• Show quality is one question. Original keeps your files untouched; Low, Medium and High shrink films to 480, 720 or 1080 lines. Transparency survives every mode.
• Medley Studio and Lighting & Video are early access and say so the first time you open them. Help > Report a Problem reaches us directly.

Fixed

• A marker's MIDI commands are sent in the order you wrote them, including bank-select pairs that could swap on some devices.
• Names inside a Stage Traxx backup are written device-safe. Titles and track names keep their accents everywhere you read them; only the archive's internal names are folded.
• A download's lone count-in track is named as the click, at download time, without touching files you already have.
• Background workers retire cleanly on exit instead of occasionally taking the app down with them.
• The About box's licence page matches what ships, full licence texts and source offer included.

Fixed

• The merged count-in and click stem is called Click. It holds the count bars and then the click for the whole song, so that is what it is now named on the timeline, in the mixer and in your export.
• The cue track arrives on Stage Traxx called Cues, not guide_track. Songs you prepared before this update are untouched and keep working.

Stage Traxx 4.1 is in open beta, and TraxxTool is ready for it.

Ready for Stage Traxx 4.1

• Capo is a real song field now. Set it in Song Details and it lands on the song in 4.1, instead of only appearing as a line of text at the top of the lyrics.
• Count-in and beat anchor. Both are in Song Details, and both leave the device's own setting alone until you change them.
• Your 4.1 work survives a trip through TraxxTool. Cues, custom region colours, playlist sets, smart playlists and MIDI macros all come back out the way they went in, including on songs you re-prepare and send back.
• The new lyric tags read properly. Colours in any of 4.1's spellings, hex colours, fonts, and bold, italic and underline together. Lyrics Studio shows them the way the iPad will.
• MIDI macros are safe to use. A $CODE in a command no longer breaks the tag it sits in, and batch edits step over it instead of scribbling on it.

Nothing here changes what a 4.0 backup looks like.

Fixed

• Merging into an existing backup no longer produces a file Stage Traxx refuses. If the backup already held the song, importing it back failed outright with a region error. It updates the song in place now.
• Merging is much faster, and keeps everything that was in the backup. It copies your library across as it stands rather than unpacking and repacking it, so PDFs and charts sitting alongside the audio come through too. Live Edit works the same way.
• Songs with an apostrophe or an accent in the title import again. They reported no audio in the backup when the audio was plainly there.
• The chords you paste stay the chords you get. If a line already had its own chords, an intro or a chord line above it could overwrite them, so the StageTraxx tab showed something different from the Text tab.
• Playback stops where the song does. On a trimmed song the playhead carried on past the last thing you can hear.
• Devices stay ticked. Saving Settings could quietly un-tick a device, and a Nord Stage 4 would then be missing from the marker menu until you ticked it again.
• Track Types is usable on a laptop screen. The icons rendered as flat lines on a short screen, and the mute group rows drew on top of each other once you made the window bigger.
• TraxxTool remembers its window size, including when you quit with Cmd+Q.
• Save a Copy shows up in the Library straight away, without pressing Refresh.
• A stalled download can be cleared out. Right-click the row and delete the files it left behind.
• File menu items that need a song open are greyed out when there isn't one.

Fixed

• Recording a guide cue onto a drive TraxxTool can't write to. If your Project Root sat on an external or network drive, saving a cue could close the app outright. It now names the folder that refused the write and keeps your take, so you can point the Project Root somewhere else and save it again.

Songs now travel both ways: pull them out of your Stage Traxx backup, change them, and send them back.

Import from Backup (Pro)

• Your Stage Traxx songs, back in TraxxTool. Import from Backup in the Library reads any .st4b backup or .st4s share. Each picked song arrives as a full project: stems, mixer, EQ, regions and colours, synced lyrics, keywords, song details. Change what you need and export again.
• Bring your bus setup too. A checkbox copies the backup's bus names and mutes into TraxxTool's routing at the same time.
• Timed [midi] commands stay on the Stage Traxx side, and the import tells you how many, so re-exporting a song never doubles them.

Live Edit (Pro)

• Edit a song that is already in your backup. With Live Edit on, "Edit a Song from the Backup" opens one of the backup's own songs in the workbench. Prepare it and Exit Live Edit writes it back over its earlier version, leaving everything else in the backup untouched.

Lyrics and chords

• Chord lines land inline. A chord line above a lyric used to export as its own timed line, stacking on top of the words on stage. It folds into the lyric below as inline chords now; instrumental passages keep their chord lines. Same in the StageTraxx tab, and inside TraxxTool your text stays as you typed it.

Downloads

• Hide my folders. One checkbox hides songs that only come from your own watched folders, which could drown the browser; store songs you also hold locally stay visible.

Fixed

• Songs imported from local folders long ago could keep their raw filenames as track names forever, even after the name cleaner arrived. They get clean names on next open; anything you renamed yourself is untouched.

Fixed

• Quitting no longer kills the app. If you closed TraxxTool while it was still checking your account, or while a job was finishing in the background, it could die on the way out and report a crash next time you opened it. It closes quietly now, whatever is still running.

Edit your real Stage Traxx backup live, add and remove tracks freely, and a timing bug on normalised songs is gone.

Live Edit (Pro)

• Your backup, edited in place. Live Backup used to write a separate file that replaced your whole Stage Traxx library on restore. Now you pick one of your own .st4b backups when you switch the mode on, and every song you prepare is written INTO it when you press Exit Live Edit. Everything already in the backup stays exactly as it was, songs and playlists and settings alike; a song you re-prepared replaces its own earlier version. There is no separate export file any more.
• Transfer ST Settings. One press writes your bus names and mutes, global MIDI slots and theme tint into the live backup, without touching its songs.

Tracks

• Add stems to any song. Right-click any track header. New files are copied into the project, land at the start of the timeline, and get their type from the filename; line them up with Time Shift.
• Delete any track. Also on the right-click menu. The audio file stays on disk, and undo brings the track back with its lane and settings intact.
• The cue track can join mute groups. It appears as "Cues" in the Track Types manager, matching the Stage Traxx mixer.

Playlists

• Colour your playlists. Right-click a playlist in the Library for Stage Traxx's own eight swatches; the colour shows in both apps. Carrying playlists into Stage Traxx as real playlists is part of TraxxTool Pro now; organising your library with them stays free.

Fixed

• Songs stay in time when a cue crosses the song start. On a tempo-normalised song, dragging a cue past the beginning could pull the music seconds away from the waveforms. Everything moves together now.
• The mute-group buttons in the Track Types manager no longer clip.

Stage Traxx exports get colours, mute groups and trims right, and the click learns real double-time.

Stage Traxx export

• Region colours finally match. Three releases of wrong colours came down to one digit: Stage Traxx counts its swatches from 1, we counted from 0, so every region arrived one swatch off with red landing on grey. Confirmed against a reference exported from Stage Traxx itself.
• Six mute groups, set by track type. Stage Traxx has six, not four, and a track can sit in several at once. Tick a type's groups once in the Track Types manager (click on 1, vocals on 2 and 6, and so on) and every song's export carries them. A song can still override its own tracks in the Stage Traxx details screen.
• "Apply audio pitch to chords" means what it says. Exports used to switch it on whenever the pitch was shifted, even with the box unticked. Your choice now arrives as-is. New songs default to on, so chords follow the audible key unless you say otherwise.
• Tracks arrive coloured by their type. Drums, vocals, keys and the rest carry their type's colour into the Stage Traxx mixer instead of arriving uncoloured.
• Auto trim buttons. Start and End in the song details can snap to where the audio actually starts and ends, just like Stage Traxx's own Trim screen. Anything you can hear counts, so a count-in click is never cut off.
• New songs can start with your metronome. Pick the mode and type every new song begins with in Settings, under Export. Songs you already have keep their own settings.

Click

• 2x is real double-time now. Doubling used to keep the accent on the old bar, so a 4/4 song felt like 8/4. The halfway pulse now sounds as a new "1", and it lands right in 3/4 and 6/8 too.
• Count-ins where the music comes back. The click track's right-click menu can find every silent break in the song and put a short count-in on the guide click ahead of each re-entry. No markers needed.

Fixed

• Overlapping lyric lines at the song end. Lines synced past the end of the audio piled onto each other where only the top one could be clicked. They fan out now, and the sync map scrolls far enough to reach them all.
• The Mute Groups column stays in its lane. On Mac the Transpose dropdown could paint across it; the table now makes room for what it holds.
• Double-clicking a downloaded song opens it. It used to start a rename. Renaming lives in the right-click menu and on F2.

Fixed

• Open Project works again on macOS 26. The picker sometimes never appeared until you restarted the app, and when it did open, your project files sat greyed out and unclickable. Both came from the new macOS file panel, so TraxxTool now uses its own picker there.
• A window that refuses to move drags anyway. On Windows and Mac the window could stop moving until you restarted the app. Dragging the header now works even when that happens, and repairs the fault for the drags after it.
• Clicking Open Project with no library folder set now tells you that, instead of doing nothing.

Mute groups, joined stems, readable track names, count-in clicks before sections, and a long list of fixes from this week's field reports.

Tracks

• Rename any track. Right-click its header, or double-click the name.
• Downloaded stem sets get readable names. A set that arrived with every lane reading "Artist Song Title (Drums Custom Backing Track" now shows Drums, Bass, Piano. One generated click or count-in stem in the song used to put the full filenames back on every track. The clean name follows to the device's mixer too.
• Mute groups. Set a track's Stage Traxx mute groups in All details. Exporting used to reset every mask to zero, wiping what you had set up on the device.
• Join tracks by type on export. Tick a type in the Track Types manager and every track of that type exports as one stem named after it, with each track's volume, pan and EQ baked in. Sixteen provider stems become the five or six you actually mix on stage.
• Track headers have a full right-click menu now: rename, mute, solo, keep in exports, the live-part modes and the channel strip in one place, and the header buttons land exactly where they are painted.

Loudness

• Choose which tracks are measured. The Loudness dialog has a Measure box per track, saved with the song. Measurement used to follow the export's "Respect track mutes" setting, so with that off, muting tracks changed nothing about the reading.

Timeline

• The line between two touching regions drags as one seam, moving both regions together. Grabbing it used to catch the left region's edge only, which could only open a gap.
• Markers move while Regions are showing. No more toggling the tool off to nudge one.
• The trim handles come unstuck. The end handle snapped to the nearest click beat from any distance, so in the tail after the last beat it was welded there. Snap now has a sensible reach, and Alt suspends it mid-drag. The Song Cut tool got the same fix: a cut can start before the first click or after the last one.
• Count-in clicks before sections. On a click track's header menu: pick 2 or 4 clicks, and every section marker gets its count-in laid onto a guide click duplicate. Carve it further or re-run it, both are safe.
• In the live-part tool, starting a drag inside a region draws a new one. A click still deletes it.
• Region colours go by name now. The Stage Traxx number is in the tooltip.
• Prepare really clears the workspace. No more ghost regions and trim marks from the last song, and no recovery prompt afterwards offering to restore an empty project.
• "Regions from Lyrics" appears as soon as the song has section markers, not after a reload.

MIDI and devices

• No more stray PC0 above your lyrics. The rig Program Change was sent even with no rig configured, and with MIDI-as-lyric-tags on it landed at the top of every song's words. 2.9.10 closed half of this; installs that carried the rig plugin enabled from the bundled days still hit it.
• Channel clashes now tell you where to fix them. Devices whose hardware channel can move get a Channel box in Rig, Devices & MIDI, and the warning points at the exact control. Two devices whose channels are fixed by their protocol get the honest version: neither can be changed, and each will react to the other's messages.
• Devices ticked on the Rig tab appear in Add Marker straight away. It used to take a restart.
• The device catalog loads and installs in the background instead of freezing the window, and it lists the device plugins as well as bare profiles.

Exports

• An export that produced no audio now says so. A failure that hit every stem used to write a valid-looking song with nothing in it. It stops with an error now, and a partial failure names the stems it lost.
• Songs staged with missing audio files no longer ship dead tracks to the device.

Fixed

• Scrolling with a trackpad over a focused field no longer edits it. Worst in the All details dialog, where some field always has focus.
• The updater keeps your install where it was. An all-users install used to gain a second per-user copy on a silent update, and the Apps entry you knew went missing.
• The Downloader now mentions that more sources come from plugins, with a button to browse them.
• A full-codebase audit landed alongside this release: a session-file race, markers that could fire the wrong device command, an Escape press that could abort the app, exports and cloud paths that quietly carried stale data, batched library writes, and a memory spike on import are all fixed.

Fixed

• TraxxTool no longer crashes when you close or swap a project while its waveforms are still drawing. Each track's waveform is built in the background; clearing the timeline let go of one that was still working, and the app died a moment later with nothing to show for it.

Roland SPD-SX PRO

• Kit changes on the timeline, by name. TraxxTool reads all 200 kit names off the pad, so a marker says "Kit 12 Verse Pads" instead of a number.
• Pad notes come from the pad itself. Each kit carries its own note map, so you get the pads you built, not a generic list.

Valeton pedals

• GP-200, GP-200LT, GP-180, GP-150 and GP-50, one plugin each. Patches, the effect blocks, CTRL footswitches, looper, drum machine and song tempo, on the timeline and exported as MIDI.
• One plugin per model on purpose: Valeton re-uses the same CC numbers across the range for different effects.

Fixed

• Get more devices on the Rig tab shows the devices. It said the catalogue was empty while nineteen of them sat there, and a catalogue it can't reach now says so instead of showing you nothing.
• TraxxTool no longer tells you it crashed when it didn't. Windows' own file dialog logs an internal error on some machines while working perfectly. The next launch read that as a crash and asked you to send a report. Real crashes are still caught.

Fixed

• Running Auto-Sync twice could kill the app. Starting a second lyric sync while the first one was still working shut TraxxTool down on the spot, with no error and nothing in the log. It now tells you a sync is already running, and the one in progress carries on.
• A medley lane played back at its new level but exported at the old one. Change a lane's level and the export could still use audio rendered before the change. It re-renders that lane now.
• Opening a song no longer waits for a HeadRush that isn't there. Every open spent about two seconds looking for a board on the network. If nothing answers, it stops asking for a minute. Pressing Connect yourself still does a full search, so a board you have only just switched on is still found.
• The Rig tab opens straight away. It used to build a panel for every supported device before it showed you anything.
• The downloader's song list no longer stalls while it works out which songs you already have. On a catalogue of a few hundred songs that was a couple of seconds, every time the list refreshed.

The guide click is a real track now, and a song can carry as many clicks as it needs.

Guide clicks

• Duplicate any click track. Right-click it and pick Duplicate. The copy keeps the original's timing and nothing else: it gets its own sound, level, pan, EQ, density, mute and output bus.
• Or build one from the drums in one press. "Add a guide click where the drums drop out" reads your drum and percussion stems and makes a click that sounds only where they are silent. Your own click is left alone.
• Guide Click is a track rather than something that appears on export. It used to exist only in the exported song, so there was no way to hear it, mute it or set its level while you worked. Open a song that uses one and it is there on the timeline, with the same regions, exporting under the same name to the same bus. Nothing changes on your device.
• Two click tracks both set to Guide Click used to be summed into a single stem. They are separate tracks now, with separate controls.

Click sound and density, per track

Both moved into the track's channel strip, beside its fader and EQ. The sound library keeps two defaults: one for the click, one for guide clicks made from it, so they do not come out sounding the same.

Fixed

• The sound you picked for the guide click did nothing. It was saved, and shown in Settings, and read by neither playback nor export.
• Its 1/2 and 2x setting only applied on export, so it looked dead while you were working.
• Half and double time were refused on a click that plays in sections only, which is the combination worth having.
• A song with two clicks merged the intro count into the wrong one.
• Re-voicing a click no longer wipes the sections you set it to play in.

Fixed

• Quitting while an export is still running no longer kills the app. A song export carries on in the background so you can get on with the next song, and closing TraxxTool before it finished took the app down on the spot instead of closing it. It now shuts down cleanly whatever is still running.
• A MIDI command no longer appears above the words of every song. Exports were putting [midi@00:00.000: PC0@7] at the top of the lyrics, an instruction to switch presets on a guitar rig, for people who have no rig set up at all. It was only ever meant for HeadRush and Kemper users, and it now goes out only for them. A song with no MIDI of its own also stops carrying an empty MIDI track.
• Intro cues you couldn't place yet can still be placed. If the spoken title and count-in had no audio when a song was imported - you record your own cues and hadn't recorded these, or you answered "Later" when asked - the song was marked as done anyway and "Place Intro Cues" disappeared, leaving no way to add the spoken title afterwards. The button now stays until the cues really are on the timeline, and it tells you what it did rather than always claiming success.

Fixed

• Sheets written the Stage Traxx way keep their sections. A # Chorus heading now reads as a section, the way [Chorus] always has. It was being treated as a line to sing, which also took "Regions from Lyrics" off the Tools menu, because that only appears when the sheet has sections. Open an affected song and it comes back.
• Scrolling past a control no longer changes it. Two fingers down the Inspector edited whatever the pointer crossed on the way. A control takes the wheel once you click into it, and not before.

Fixed

• A crash in a background job no longer takes the whole app down. If something went wrong while TraxxTool was busy in the background - fetching community charts, scanning your library - the app vanished on the spot, with no message and nothing to send to support. The problem is now recorded properly and the report window opens as it should.

Fixed

• The click has its own row in Bus Routing now. Choose the bus it goes out on, and the spoken cues and the guide click follow it unless you have given them a bus of their own.
• Switching preset keeps your cue bus and your bus mutes. Those are your settings, not the preset's, and they were being wiped every time.
• Bus Details lists all 16 buses. You can name and mute any of them, including the ones you have not sent a track type to yet.
• Splitting a song into stems on your own computer works again. It was falling over the instant it started, saying "No module named 'timeit'".

Fixed

• A medley excerpt that is not a whole number of bars long now says so. If you trim a song anywhere other than a bar line, the excerpt is still a whole number of beats, so every tick of the click lines up and nothing used to mention it. The song after it starts mid-bar all the same, and the click carries on accenting the 1, which sounds for all the world like the click itself is in the wrong place. The Doctor now names the excerpt that did it and offers to trim it to a whole bar. Medleys built for you were never affected; this is the one you get after editing a trim by hand.

Fixed

• Finishing a lyric sync no longer looks like it failed. The panel that opens when a sync completes has been crashing since 2.6.1, in every language, about a second after the success message. Your lyrics were always saved, every time; the only broken part was the screen that told you so. It reads properly in your language now too, including the count of synced lines and the buttons that copy the transcription out.
• A damaged install stops reporting itself as a crash. TraxxTool checks for add-on updates quietly in the background a few seconds after it opens. On one damaged copy of the app that check could not start at all, and instead of passing over it the app said it had crashed, on every single launch. A background job that fails is now just an update that did not happen.

Fixed

• Opening a song no longer crashes when your library lives in iCloud Drive. On macOS a Project Root inside iCloud Drive, Documents or Desktop stays off limits until you grant the app access to it, and TraxxTool treated that refusal as a crash. It now says the folder could not be read and points at the setting that opens it, in Privacy & Security. Nothing is assumed lost either: your folders, playlists and song list are left exactly as they were rather than emptied. The Medley tab's song shelf behaves the same way.

Fixed

• A download that stopped short no longer claims it finished. When tracks went missing on the way down, from a dropped connection or a session that had to be verified again, the song still sat in the Downloader in green saying Downloaded. It now says Incomplete, and hovering the row names the tracks that never arrived. Download that song again and only the missing ones are fetched; everything already on your disk is left alone.

Fixed

• Opening a downloaded song no longer crashes. It caught songs whose saved details had a tempo and nothing else, the demo song among them.
• Region edges snap to the click. With Snap on, dragging a region's start, end or body put it a beat off the downbeat instead of on it.
• Quitting during a download is just a quit. Closing the app while tracks were still coming down could report a crash a minute later, about a download nobody was waiting on any more.

Fixed

• Keywords now arrive in Stage Traxx. Whatever you set in Song Details or in the library comes through, in a backup and in a song share.
• An & in a name stays put. A stem called "Gtr & Keys" was reading as "Gtr Keys" in menus and on buttons.

Plugins can come from more than one place now, and the click's stock sound has a proper name.

Plugin databases

Settings, Plugins lists the databases plugins are read from, rather than the one address it used to hold.

• Add your own, from a URL or a folder on your machine. A band with a shared drive can run its own catalog, and so can anyone writing a plugin, without a web server.
• Switch one off and its plugins stop appearing in search. Anything you installed from it stays installed.
• Everything is searched at once. A database that is unreachable no longer empties the list; the others are still perfectly good.

Also

• The stock click sound is called Default. Whatever you had chosen stays chosen.
• Song details capture says where a value came from using the name of the add-on that supplied it, rather than a fixed list.

Spanish, start to finish. Plus a Nord Stage 4 plugin and a long list of fixes.

The whole app in Spanish

Every screen, not just the settings and the menus: the Workbench and its tools, the Library, Medley Studio, the Rig tab, the batch editor, and the interactive tour end to end. Set it under Settings, then Appearance.

• OK, Cancel and the file browser follow the language too. Those come from Qt rather than from TraxxTool, so they stayed English however complete the translation was.
• Track types and cue names read in Spanish on the timeline, in the bus routing table and in the type manager. What gets stored is unchanged, so a chart from a Spanish user still opens for an English one.

Songs you already own

Point TraxxTool at a folder of songs from before you had it, and they are listed alongside your downloads, searchable, with a Not in my library tick box that leaves only the work still to do. Downloader, then "My Folders". Right-click any of them to bring it in.

• Nothing in the folder is copied, moved or renamed. Not even if you edit the name in the table, which refuses and says so.
• It reads real folder trees. Song/*.mp3, Artist/Song/*.mp3, Song/STEMS/*.wav and a Pro Tools Song/Audio Files/*.wav all come out named after the song. Tell it whether your folders read "Title - Artist" or the other way round and the columns land right.
• Bulk import is not in this yet. Songs still come in one at a time.

The AI voice for one cue

• Right-click a cue, "Generate This Cue with the AI Voice". Keep your own recordings for the standard set and let the AI read the song title, which is a new phrase in every song.
• "Voice for This Cue" in the same menu puts any cue on any voice you have.
• Or set it once under Settings, Guide Voice.

Nord Stage 4

Programs, section enables per scene, layer levels and pans, drawbars, arpeggiator, rotary and effects, all on the timeline and exported as MIDI. Install it from the plugin database and tick it in Rig.

Regions

• Region colours now match on the iPad. A chorus you set to blue was arriving magenta.
• TraxxTool remembers your colours. Set a chorus once and every chorus after it comes out the same, in this song and the next one.
• Clear removes regions, on their own or along with your markers.
• Region edges snap to the grid, so a chorus boundary lands on the downbeat.

Click

• Re-voice a click you already have. Right-click a click track's header to swap the tick for a woodblock, a cowbell, a rim or your own sample. The timing is untouched and the original file is left alone.
• Half-time click, for a sparse intro before the drums come in.
• Snapping knows about bars, and holding Alt puts a marker somewhere off the grid when you need it there.

Lyrics

• Colour your lyrics from inside TraxxTool. Select words in the Lyrics studio, right-click, pick one of Stage Traxx's eight colours, and see it in that colour instead of imagining it on the iPad.
• Change every colour in a library at once from the Batch Editor: yellow to blue, any colour to one colour, or strip it, across every song or only across section headers.
• # Chorus headings count now, not just [Chorus], so batch jobs scoped to section headers work on a library typed on an iPad.
• Start a sheet with the song title and artist, with a capo line if you want one. Optional, under Settings then Export. The capo is per song, in Song Details.

Batch Editor

• Insert a block of text into every song, at the top or the end. Songs that already have it are skipped, so running it twice is harmless.
• Export all lyrics to one text file for reading and searching.

Fixed

• Device plugins install and work again: Nord, Quad Cortex, X32, SQ, Qu, Digitakt, Helix, Strymon and VoiceLive.
• Your track order stays put when you reopen a song.
• The first section of your lyrics reaches Stage Traxx. It was dropped from every export.
• Library keywords and playlists reach Stage Traxx in song shares, not only the ones typed into Song Details.
• Purchase dates fill in properly in the downloads browser. Dates written in the site's own language ("4 ago 2024", "4 août 2024") were not read at all, so on a Spanish or French account four months of the year came back blank.
• Nothing is clipped in a small window: the top bar, the song title, and Prepare Song at the bottom.
• The Medley inspector comes back with the tempo ramp still in it.
• Find an installed plugin with the same search and type filter the plugin database has.

A small fix on top of 2.7.0.

Fixed

• Closing the app no longer looks like a crash. Quitting TraxxTool from a terminal with Ctrl+C, or letting the system ask it to close, could pop a "TraxxTool crashed" report even though nothing had actually gone wrong. Deliberate exits now close quietly and file nothing. Seen mainly on the Linux build.

Medley Studio, Kemper support, and the click stops being one fixed noise.

Medley Studio (new)

A whole new room. Pick songs from your library and TraxxTool works out an order, a tempo for each join, a key plan that keeps every song singable and a crossfade on every track, then hands you one project with real stems, a real click, real lyrics and real markers. It exports like any other song.

• Play it, then edit it while it plays. Tempo, key, levels, crossfade handles and lane mutes all change under your hands without stopping.
• Bars and beats, never milliseconds. Every join is anchored to a downbeat measured off the real audio.
• A key plan that respects singers. Keys move around the circle of fifths and nothing is pitched further than you allow. Chords and lyrics follow.
• A tempo plan that respects arrangements. A ballad in a run of up-tempo songs goes to half time rather than being stretched to breaking.
• The Doctor. A panel that says what will actually sound wrong, a segment stretched too hard, a key nobody can sing, a seam with no room to fade, and offers the fix as a button.
• Trim and seam editors with waveforms, for any join you want by hand.
• Edit Medley from the Workbench. The plan is saved beside the render and reopens.

This one is new and it is big, so you may hit rough edges. There is a Report a problem button in the tab. Your medley plan is saved separately from the songs it was built from, so nothing here can damage your library.

Building, playing and editing is free at any length. Sending a medley of more than three songs to the Workbench needs Pro.

Click

• Click Sounds. Eight voices to start with, the stock click, a woodblock, an electronic beep, drumsticks, a cowbell, a rim knock and two kit voices, and you can build your own from any audio clip. Settings, Workbench, Click Sounds.
• Kick and snare, or kick and hi-hat, for anyone whose click is a part rather than a metronome. Easier to lock to through an intro where the recorded drums have not come in yet.
• An editor for each sound: waveform, Level, Tone, Punch, trim handles, and a click point marking where inside the clip the beat actually is. Press Detect and it usually finds it.
• Re-voice a click you already have. Turn on "Apply my click sound to existing click tracks" and every tick in the stem is found, accents included, and re-rendered where it already is. Variable tempo is fine. Your file is never touched.
• Guide Click. A third mode on the Comp tool for click tracks: select the sections you want in your ears and they are summed into one extra exported track. The click track itself exports unchanged, so the drummer still gets the whole thing. Its bus is set in the Librarian's Routing panel.
• Fill where the drums drop out, from a right-click on GUIDE CLICK. Reads your drum stems, finds every stretch they are silent, and selects those.
• The guide click can have its own density, Normal, 2x or Half time, separately from the click track. The drummer keeps a full click while the band gets a half-time one.
• Half-time click, next to the 2x button. Every other click is silenced, keeping the downbeats. A setting, not an edit.

Regions

• Built from your lyrics. If your sheet has section headers it already holds everything a region needs. Regions from Lyrics in the Tools menu builds the set, named, coloured and in order. Every verse gets the same colour whether you called it "Verse", "Verse 2" or "Second Verse".
• A Regions editor, alongside Markers and Cut. Drag to draw, drag to move, drag the edges to resize, double-click to rename, right-click for colour and playback mode.
• Playback modes come across too: Continue, Repeat Once, Repeat, Skip and Pause. Set a chorus to Repeat and it loops until you move on.
• A glance, not a distraction. With Show All on, regions stay visible in every other tool as a thin coloured strip.

Gear

• Kemper PROFILER. Your Performances become the rig list, each song picks one, and its Program Change is sent when the song loads. Module toggles, MultiBlocks and Slot changes go on the timeline. Built for the Stage; the Head, Rack and Player speak the same MIDI.
• Read your Performances off the board, so the timeline says "MOD - Rotary Speaker" instead of "Block 6".
• A MultiBlock lands where it says it will, even if you stomped a switch yourself mid-song. Delay and reverb keep their tails.
• Nine more devices. Tick what you own in Rig, Devices & MIDI, and each gets an editor mode with every control named:
• Line 6 Helix / HX, snapshots, setlists, presets, footswitches, looper.
• Neural DSP Quad Cortex, presets, scenes A to H, footswitches.
• Strymon TimeLine, presets, bypass, A/B/TAP, knobs, looper.
• TC-Helicon VoiceLive 3, every vocal and guitar block as an on/off.
• Behringer X32 / Midas M32, faders in dB, mutes, pan, mute groups, scenes.
• Allen & Heath Qu, mute any channel, DCA, mix or mute group, plus scenes.
• Allen & Heath SQ, all sixteen Soft Keys, plus scenes.
• Nord Stage 3, programs, organ, piano and synth, drawbars, rotary.
• Elektron Digitakt, per-track level, mute, filter and sends, patterns.
• QLab shows read straight in. Open the Rig tab's QLab page, read the workspace QLab has open or a copy of the .qlab4/.qlab5 file, and your cues appear in the timeline's right-click menu under their own numbers and names. Two shows can be imported without clashing.
• Gear that listens on MIDI notes works now, live and in the exported MIDI.
• A warning when two devices would fight. A device works out what is for it by MIDI channel alone, so two boxes on one channel both act on everything. TraxxTool now says so, in the Workbench's MIDI panel and in Rig. Program Change gets special attention, because a device reacts to any Program Change on its channel whatever the number.
• Controls next to every device in Rig, listing everything it understands with a Send button, so you can prove the cable at soundcheck.
• Star the controls you actually use. They sit at the top of the Add Marker menu, the first nine on Alt-1 to Alt-9.

Cues

• Ending cues. Park the playhead on the last hit, press Place Ending Cues, and you get an End call a bar early followed by a 1-2-3-4.
• Two new cues: End and Last Time. End is the end itself, as distinct from Outro, which announces a section that can be a minute earlier.
• A two-bar count-in, under Count in the Add Marker menu.
• Count in eighths with Ctrl+Shift, "1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &".
• My cues. Every custom cue in your library, whichever song or voice it came from. They used to be offered only in the song that already used them.
• Choose which cues to generate. The coverage grid is tickable, so wanting one cue no longer means paying for every gap.
• Favourite cues, starred to the top of the Add Marker menu.
• The cue editors show the cue you already have, drawn, with a Preview button. They used to show an empty pane whether or not it existed.
• Refresh Cue Audio, on any cue marker's right-click menu, so re-recording a cue updates the markers you already placed.
• Move where a cue lands on the beat. The alignment point is an amber line you can drag. One drag fixes every song using that cue.
• An AI Cue Editor. Change the words behind a generated cue, because "Chorus!" is shouted where "Chorus." is called.

Library

• Tempo and key for your whole library, looked up rather than guessed. TraxxTool asks whoever knows: the site that built the song states both, chord sites state the key, and only when nobody knows does it analyse the audio. Every value records where it came from. Free up to 20 songs at a time; Pro sweeps the lot.
• Import a folder of audio as a voice. Filenames are matched to cues in stages, anything it cannot place confidently is imported as a custom cue rather than dropped, and you see the whole thing before it commits.
• Batch-edit a Stage Traxx backup. Batch Edit next to the Merge controls opens any .st4b and changes the songs already inside it. It opens instantly even on a huge library.
• MIDI commands written into your lyrics, changed everywhere at once. Every command across the backup, with how many songs use each. Move a channel, renumber a program, nudge a value, or add a load-time tag to every song.
• Song settings in bulk, with a Ripple mode that walks a value down the selection, for giving 40 songs their own program number.
• Find and replace that knows what it is looking at, so a three-letter search cannot quietly rewrite your MIDI commands. Chords can be transposed.
• Nothing happens without a preview, and a restore point is taken before every batch.
• Your own track types, properly managed. A Track Types window to rename, delete, and give each type an icon and colour, so custom types read at a glance instead of all sharing one purple tag.
• Deleting a type checks your library first and asks what those tracks should become, then rewrites those songs with a backup kept. They used to land silently on the fallback bus at the next export.
• Renaming carries your library with it, bus assignment included.
• Presets no longer move your own types onto a shared bus.

Changed

• Moving a cue marker is instant. A busy song's cue rebuild went from over a second to under five milliseconds, and most edits no longer trigger one. Cues used to go silent for the whole rebuild, which is exactly when you wanted to hear them.
• TraxxTool ships with no gear in it. A band with no HeadRush should not be carrying one around. Every device is a plugin now, downloaded from Settings, Plugins, so you install what you own. Generic MIDI is always there.
• Nothing is taken away on update. If you were using the HeadRush or X Air support it is kept and works as before.
• The plugin database can be searched and filtered.
• Every device has its own page in the Rig tab. Past seven, the rest collapse into a More menu instead of squeezing the panel off the screen.
• The Workbench's HeadRush section is now Rig, since it belongs to whichever rig your song uses. Only the label moved.

The half-done parts of 2.6.0, finished.

• Spanish reaches the whole app, not just the main screens: the Library, the Downloader, the recorder, Song Details, the rig editors and every settings page. Around 1,500 more pieces of text. Anything not yet translated shows in English rather than blank.
• Cue markers are called cue markers everywhere, including the screens 2.6.0 missed and the Settings toggle for anyone who preferred "guide".
• The Voices table. Voices and Cues opens on a real list of your voices, how many cues each holds and when you last used it, above the coverage grid.
• Fill several voices at once. Select any number and one run generates every missing cue across all of them, with the cost stated first. Your own recorded voice is skipped with a note rather than blocking the run.

Fixed

• The custom loudness target works in a non-English interface.
• The Cloud Backup button no longer sticks on "Cancel backup".

Shaped almost entirely by what people asked for. Guide markers are now cue markers, voices become first class, and the app starts speaking Spanish.

New

• Voices and Cues manager. Every voice keeps its own cue library, shared across all your songs, so a cue recorded or generated once is reused everywhere. Settings, Guide Voice, Manage Voices and Cues shows which voice has which cues and fills the gaps in one batch, cost stated first. Switching voices no longer quietly plays audio made by the previous one.
• Import your own cue audio. WAV, MP3, M4A, FLAC or OGG straight into the same trim and save flow as a recorded take, for anyone who already has professionally recorded packs.
• The whole count, one click. Hold Shift on a number in the Count menu and the full count lands on consecutive click beats, each number on a real beat.
• Spanish is arriving. Settings, Interface. The main screens come across first. Spoken cues can be generated in Spanish too, set independently of the interface, and each language keeps its own cue audio per voice.
• Custom track types like FX or Pads, next to the built-in ones, in the role menu, routing, AI categorisation and exports.
• Auto key detection. The Key field can fill itself from the song's chords. Your manual entry is never overwritten.
• Tidy with AI. Paste rough lyrics into the Lyrics Studio Text tab and let AI clean the layout and section order, in the song's own language. Nothing is applied until you hit Apply Text.
• Live Backup (Pro). Every song you finish is added to a working backup as you go, with Finalise Backup writing the .st4b when you are ready. Made for big migrations.
• A separate bus for spoken cues, for consoles that keep them apart from the click. Off by default.
• Colour tint. Pick the app's accent in Settings, Interface, and it rides into your backups so Stage Traxx picks a matching one.
• Downloads browser upgrades: an Added column, Status sorting that puts fresh downloads first, Ctrl+C to copy a selection as a list, and a right-click menu that understands multi-selection.
• Custom ElevenLabs voice IDs are verified as you type, showing the voice's real name, so a typo cannot cost you a broken cue later.
• Cifra Club chord sheets, a new optional chords plugin covering Spanish, Portuguese and English songs.

Fixed

• Lyric sync no longer drifts at the end of songs. The final section almost always needed correcting by hand.
• Chords always match what you hear. A pitch-shifted song applies the shift to its chords on export, including when the shift is baked into the audio.
• The top menus no longer crush into an unclickable sliver at low resolutions or high display scaling. They fold into a menu button instead.
• The recorder tells you the truth on every platform. No microphone, an input that will not open, or an OS privacy setting feeding silence all show clear guidance, plus a "Hearing you" check before you record.
• A crash closing the lyric sync results window after using a copy button.

A Mac round, all from real reports.

Fixed

• macOS: recording your own cues works. The app never asked for microphone permission, so macOS handed it silence and your take came out empty with no error. It asks properly now, and a dead-silent take says where to fix it.
• macOS: mics and interfaces clocked at 48 kHz (AirPods, many USB interfaces) refused to record at all. TraxxTool records at the device's own rate and converts for you.
• macOS: switching your output device no longer needs a restart. Connect AirPods and playback follows.
• Honest cue generation. If spoken cues fail to generate, it says which ones and why instead of announcing success while your markers sit silent.
• Sections survive a lyric re-sync instead of being orphaned and stacked with a duplicate set.

Fixed

• macOS: window dragging works where 2.5.2 did not manage it. Some Macs, notably on the newest updates, accepted the request to move the window and then ignored it. TraxxTool moves the window itself when the system will not. If one still will not budge, Help, Report a Problem now captures what happened to your drag.

Fixed

• macOS: the window can be moved again. On some Macs it just sat where it opened. Dragging any empty part of the top bar moves it, and double-clicking zooms, like a normal Mac title bar.
• Honest lyric timing. When line times are estimates, from typed or pasted lyrics that have not been synced, the Lyrics Studio says so and points at Auto-Sync, which listens to your lead vocal, or Tap Sync.

Song sections, linked to your timeline

The sections in your lyrics and the section markers on your timeline are two views of the same thing now, kept in step.

• A cue marker can double as a section. Right-click it, Mark as Section, or pick from Song Sections in the Add Marker menu. It still calls out its cue exactly as before.
• Type a header like [Chorus] in the lyrics editor and it lights up. One press of Add Section Markers puts a marker on the timeline for every section, and only ever adds what is missing.
• It works both ways. Add a section on the timeline and the [Chorus] header appears in your lyrics; rename or delete one side and the other follows.
• Auto-Sync no longer drops section markers on the timeline behind your back. They arrive in the lyrics editor and you place them when you want.

Import desk recordings

Record your show on the desk and drop the one big file on TraxxTool. A 32-channel WING-LIVE file, an X32/M32 card recording, any multichannel WAV. The Channel Mapper turns it into a ready-to-mix song in one screen, instead of a DAW session just to bounce channels out.

• Every channel gets a row: include it or not, pair it with its neighbour as one stereo stem, name it. Names drive the same role detection as any other import, so "Kick" lands on the drum bus.
• TraxxTool suggests the mapping first. Silent channels come unticked, channels that move together arrive paired, and a sparse spiky one is flagged as the click, each with its confidence on the row. Nothing is decided silently.
• Gigabyte show files are streamed, never loaded whole, and the split keeps your recording's bit depth.
• Layout templates. Save the mapping once ("My WING rig") and the next import is two clicks. Mono, stereo pairs and a Jamzone-style band set are included.
• Free for everyone, like every import feature.

Also

• Behringer WING add-on. One click fetches every scribble-strip name and colour over the network, read-only, so your imported channels are labelled exactly as they were at front of house. Includes find-my-WING discovery. The X Air integration gained the same for XR12/16/18.
• Desk plugins API, so a plugin can teach the Channel Mapper to fetch channel names from any console.

Loudness normalization and chords.

Loudness normalization

Backing tracks from different places land at wildly different volumes. Tick Normalize on the export bar and every export is levelled, -16 LUFS by default, measured the way Logic and the streaming platforms measure it.

• It measures the mix your audience hears: your faders, pans, EQ and mutes, minus the click bus and anything routed to a bus you mute on the device. One gain is applied via the Stage Traxx song volume, so your stems and mix balance are never touched. Un-muting the drums live still sounds like your saved mix, just levelled.
• True-peak protected, never past -1 dBTP. Transparent gain, no limiter, so a song without the headroom lands as close as it honestly can and says so.
• Loudness shows this song's measurement, the exact gain the next export will apply, and a per-stem list of what was measured and why anything was excluded. Give one song its own target if it is the odd one out.
• Stereo mixes get the same gain, and every export re-measures.

Chords

TraxxTool can put chords on your songs and export them to Stage Traxx, drawn above the words on stage.

• Import Chords in the lyrics room. Paste any chord sheet or a ChordPro file, and every chord lands on the matching synced lyric line, so they inherit the timing your lyrics already have.
• Sheet section headers become real song sections, and named sections export as proper headings.
• Instrumental passages come across. A bar line like "| Em7 | G |" becomes a timed line you can drag on the sync map.
• A chord strip on the timeline, charting the whole song, one colour-coded block per chord. The same chord is always the same colour, neighbours never share one, and labels step aside instead of piling up.
• Ultimate Guitar add-on, a separately installed plugin that adds a search box finding the best-rated sheet for your song. Fetches happen only when you ask.

Fixed

• Lyrics stay in time on cut or tempo-warped exports. Line times were only shifted, not remapped, so the words could drift against the audio. Lines inside a removed section are dropped rather than piling up at the seam.

• TraxxTool updates itself. When a new version is out it can tell you what changed and update in place. Settings, General, Updates: install automatically, notify me (the default), or never check. Help, Check for Updates always asks on the spot. Every download is integrity-checked, and an update only applies across a restart, never mid-song.
• The full changelog is on the website, at traxxtool.app/changelog, with a deep link per version.

Fixed

• macOS: "TraxxTool is damaged and can't be opened" is gone. Right-click, Open would not get past it either. You get the normal one-time "unidentified developer" prompt instead.

Fixed

• Stage Traxx could refuse to import an exported song, with "Unexpected Error / typeMismatch", if the song had its Key set. The Key, the Notes and the song-select MIDI trigger now export in Stage Traxx's own format. Re-export on this version and it will import. Already made a broken file? tools/repair_st4s.py fixes it without re-exporting.

• A guided Interactive Tour. Help, Interactive Tour, and TraxxTool walks you through itself with a spotlight over each part as you go: importing stems, placing cues and markers, cutting a section, and running Prepare Song for real on a bundled demo song. Step away partway and it offers to pick up where you left off.

Changed

• "Export Song" is now "Prepare Song." Same action, rendering your stems and manifest into your library ready to package. The name describes what it does before anything leaves the app.
• Faster launch. The splash appears within a moment instead of after a dead pause, and cold starts are noticeably quicker.

Fixed

• macOS 26: Detect Tempo and other busy actions no longer crash the app.

Fixed

• macOS: launching no longer bounces the Dock icon for up to a minute. The app unpacked itself on every launch, and clicking the icon again during the wait started a second copy, so you got two TraxxTool icons. It ships fully unpacked now and starts in seconds; opening it again brings the running window forward.

Fixed

• macOS: repeated error windows then a crash. Opening almost any window could set off a cascade of dialogs mentioning "WindowChrome" and eventually take the app down. Mac dialogs keep their standard title bars, as before.
• Out-of-date add-ons could crash the app, taking the Downloader tab down with them. Open Settings, Plugins and update. A broken plugin now shows a message instead of crashing.

New

• Installed plugins keep themselves up to date, a few seconds after launch, with a small note when one does. Only plugins you installed are touched, downloads are integrity-checked, and you can turn it off in Settings.
• Help has a User Manual entry, opening the bundled PDF or the current one on traxxtool.app.

Fixed

• The stem-splitting engine download crashed on every install, with "Failed to execute script" before anything was fetched. The same fault blocked the MIDI add-on installer. Just Retry the download on this version.
• Custom ElevenLabs voice IDs work without Advanced mode. The field used to live with the bring-your-own-key controls, so credits users had nowhere to type it.
• Changing your Project Root refreshes the Library immediately.
• MIDI markers show in the Lyrics Studio preview when "Embed MIDI as lyric tags" is on, exactly as Stage Traxx will receive them.
• The export list says Stage Traxx 4, so it cannot be mistaken for the Stage Traxx 3 option next to it.

Export to Stage Traxx 3

Still on ST3, or sharing with a bandmate who is? Pick StageTraxx 3 in the export format dropdown for the same choices as ST4: a Song Share (.stsa) to import alongside your library, or a full Backup (.st3), with Merge to add songs without disturbing what is there.

• Multitrack Backup collapses each output bus into one ST3 track, since ST3 tops out at 8, and only pulls a level down if it would clip. More than 8 buses and it tells you to simplify the routing rather than quietly dropping stems.
• Single Mix Backup embeds one stereo Band Mix per song: click and cues in one ear, backing in the other, the parts your band plays live left out.
• Cues, markers, lyrics and MIDI all come across. ST3 has no attached-MIDI support, so your device MIDI is written as timed lyric tags automatically.
• Backups and Merge are Pro, the song share is free.

Also

• Embed MIDI as lyric tags instead of a .mid file, in Settings. Off by default for ST4, always used for ST3.

Fixed

• First launch no longer hangs on the splash screen. On a new install the welcome window could open behind the splash, which then never went away, so the app looked frozen before you ever saw it. If 2.0.1 stuck for you, this is the fix.
• The macOS installer window shows its background again instead of coming up plain white with two bare icons, and the disk mounts with a TraxxTool icon.

Fixed

• A download add-on's settings tab now appears right after install, before its browser component has been downloaded.
• A saved ElevenLabs key no longer bypasses the credits gate unless bring-your-own-key mode is on.
• The Rig tab's HeadRush and X Air panels no longer report a missing module.
• macOS: traxxtool:// links open the copy you have running instead of a second one.
• macOS: the title bar is transparent with traffic-light buttons, matching Windows.
• macOS: the app icon shows in Finder.
• Windows: the taskbar icon is fixed for installs launched from a shortcut.

Changed

• macOS builds ship as branded .dmg installers with drag-to-install instructions instead of bare .zip archives.

The first public release.

• Lyrics Studio. A room of its own: type or paste lyrics, see them exactly as Stage Traxx will render them, and drag the sync map against the vocal stem until it lands.
• Stem separation, built in. Drop in an mp3 and get six stems back, free on your own machine or on a cloud GPU when the laptop is busy. You can also pull a hard-panned click out of an old backing track.
• Community charts. Share and download finished arrangements. A chart carries every parameter and is fingerprinted against the stems it was built from, so a download either matches your audio or says plainly that it does not. Never carries lyric text.
• Rig tab. Devices get their own room instead of being scattered through Settings, each with a connection banner so you know whether you are editing live or offline.
• Tempo detection and normalising. TraxxTool works out a song's BPM and uses it everywhere: the click, the count-in, the DAW export. Normalising fits a drifting click onto a steady grid, and turning it off puts the original back.
• Sign in without a Google account, with a six-digit code emailed to any address. No password to set, remember or reset.
• Google Drive downloads, alongside direct links.
• Song naming that sorts itself out. Stem filenames are mined for the title and artist, with an AI guess as backup, and nothing is renamed until you have seen the review.
• Cloud backup that actually restores. Re-uploading unchanged songs costs nothing, and a second machine can pull the whole thing back down.
• Multi-command markers. One marker can fire several MIDI commands.
• Align Click picker. The one-click button guesses which stem is the click and which is the drums. Shift-click or right-click to say what you meant when it guesses wrong.
• Combined DAW export. Reaper and Ableton in one pass, carrying your MIDI through.
• Guide voices you can hear before you pick, a curated list with previews instead of raw model ids.
• Diagnostics and support. One place to see what the app thinks of your setup and send a bundle. Telemetry is opt-in.
• Deep links. traxxtool:// opens the copy you already have running.