Richter Playback
Backing-track playback for the stage.
Assemble stems into songs, songs into sets, and route audio and MIDI to your rig. Multi-output routing, per-song click and count-ins, and MIDI control for your amp and lighting. Native to macOS, and built to run a show without surprises.
£39at launch
ScreenshotMain window: the transport bar, track headers, and a set on the timeline with a few songs placed, markers on the marker bar, and the meters showing.
Stems, songs, sets.
Load your stems, group them into songs, and arrange songs into sets. Songs are reusable across every set in the project, so one library covers the whole tour. A track-based timeline holds it together, with markers you can jump to and transport events that pause or move the playhead on their own.
- Songs and interludes, reusable across sets
- Multiple sets per project
- Markers, named and jumpable
- Pause and Go To events, fired as the playhead crosses them
ScreenshotTimeline close-up: tracks with a couple of song clips, the marker bar with named markers, and a Pause or Go To event on the Events track.
Build each song.
A dedicated editor for every song: line up the stems, set gains and outputs, and configure the click. It runs its own audio engine, so you can audition a song without touching your front-of-house routing. Add stems by dropping files in, and Richter reads their tempo where it can.
- Per-stem gain and output
- Drag to align each stem in the song
- Per-song click, BPM, time signature, count-in
- Tempo detection when you import a file
ScreenshotSong Editor: channel strips down the left (name, gain, output), stem lanes with waveforms on the right, and the click and BPM inspector row.
Route it where it needs to go.
Define your own output buses and send each to specific channels on your interface. Tracks to the desk, click to the drummer, cues to the MD, all at once. The project runs at its own sample rate regardless of the hardware, and if the interface drops out mid-set, playback stops cleanly and recovers when it comes back.
- Virtual outputs to hardware channels, mono or stereo
- Project sample rate, 44.1 to 96 kHz, independent of the device
- Per-output metering and faders
- Device-drop protection, with automatic recovery
ScreenshotI/O Configuration window: the project sample-rate picker, hardware device, and virtual-output rows with their channel routing.
Switch your rig from the track.
Send Program Change and Control Change messages at exact points in a song. Change presets on a Kemper or Quad Cortex, kick in an effect, or drive MIDI lighting, all in time with the audio. Draw the changes on a value graph, or type them into an event list with bar, beat, division and tick positions.
- Program Change and CC, on any channel
- Kemper, Quad Cortex, and any MIDI device
- MIDI lighting, in time with the song
- Value-graph and event-list editing
ScreenshotMIDI Control editor drawer: the value graph with CC points and the Program Change strip on the left, and the event-list table (Position, Name, Type, Num, Val) on the right.
Run it hands-free.
Drive transport from a MIDI foot controller or a keyboard-style button box, so you never have to touch the Mac mid-song. Bind buttons to play, stop, skip, mute, and marker jumps in a learn mode: hit Learn, press the button, done. Bindings are global to the app, so your controller means the same thing in every project.
- MIDI and keyboard controllers
- Learn-mode binding, one button at a time
- Transport, markers, mute, panic
- Global across projects
ScreenshotControl Setup window: the actions table with a Learn and Clear button per action, and the MIDI input source picker.
Built to not fail.
A live tool has to survive a bad night. LIVE mode blocks accidental edits while you are playing. Mute All takes a deliberate one-second hold, so a stray click can't kill the show. And a pre-flight check confirms every file is present, the interface is connected with enough channels, and the sample rates line up, before you walk on.
- LIVE mode, edits locked while playing
- Hold-to-engage Mute All
- Pre-flight check before the set
- Voice cues, recorded onto the timeline
ScreenshotPre-flight Check sheet with green and amber checks, or the transport bar showing LIVE mode active and the Mute All button.
- Platform
- macOS 14 and later, native
- Audio
- Real-time engine, 44.1 to 96 kHz
- Routing
- Virtual outputs to hardware channels
- Click
- Per song, with pre-roll count-in
- MIDI
- File playback and editable PC / CC control
- Control
- MIDI and keyboard control surfaces
- Cues
- Record voice cues to the timeline
- Projects
- Portable .richter packages
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