sustain

Click. Pad. Play.

Build a setlist in seconds, route every track to its own output, and run it all from MIDI. No wifi at the venue? It keeps working, and syncs to the rest of the band once you're back online.

sustain playing Gravity from a Friday-night setlist: click and pad per song, the pad fading into G, and the click, pad and master strips of the mixer below

Precise and customizable click.

Tap a beat to accent it. Every song in the set keeps its own pattern, in quarters or eighths.

Signature
Accents
SongBPMSigAccent

Change key without a gap.

Every song carries its key, and the pad crossfades into the next one as the set moves — no silence, no two chords stacking up.

Fast and flexible audio routing.

Click to the in-ears, pads to front of house — on whatever interface is on the desk tonight.

Audio Interface

2 connected
Scarlett 4i4
Focusrite · 4th Gen
ACTIVE
4 IN
4 OUT
M-Track 2x2M
M-Audio · C Series
2 IN
2 OUT

MIDI and keyboard triggers for every control.

Map a footswitch, a MIDI controller or any key to start, stop, next song or a pad key. Click the control, press the key — done.

MIDI mapping mode: every transport button and song row outlined, each with its MIDI note, and a toast showing the note just played on a foot controller
MIDI mapping
Key mapping mode with the Next button waiting for a key press
Keyboard shortcuts

Create a setlist in seconds.

Type a few letters to add a song from your library, drop in a placeholder for the walk-on or a speech, and drag rows into order.

A setlist of six songs, each with its tempo, time signature, accent pattern and pad key
A placeholder row named Walk-on intro at the top of the setlist
Add placeholder
The song Clocks lifted mid-drag and moved up between Viva La Vida and Yellow
Reorder
Typing “the” in the add-song row lists Hymn for the Weekend, The Scientist and Waiting on the World to Change from the library
Add song

Collaborate with your team.

Invite the band into one workspace. Every edit syncs to the cloud and shows up on everyone's laptop within seconds — no files, no version names.

The Organization page listing five band members with their roles, and one pending invite
One workspace per band
Four setlist cards, each showing the avatars of the people who edited it and when
See who changed what

Offline first. Synced when you're back.

Your setlists, pads and edits live on the laptop, so the show goes on when the venue wifi doesn't. Reconnect and every change merges on its own.

The sustain workspace with the Friday at The Anchor setlist open and playable while the laptop has no connectionNo connection — still playing
Editing with no connection

Comparison

sustainAbleton LivePlayback by MultiTracksPrime by LoopCommunity
Purpose-built for click + pads
Real photos of your gear, not generic icons
Sync to cloud
Instant start on trigger
Built for desktopmobile-firsthardware unit
Works with no internetafter downloadafter download
Simple to learnlimited
Run custom tracks

Best guess as of August 2026 — competitor features change, tell us if we have something wrong.

Pay for the band, not the seat.

Free for the rest of 2026

No trial, no card, no catch — every feature is open through the end of the year. After that, subscription plans arrive for individuals, bands and teams, priced so that moving from any tool in the table above still costs you less than staying put.

Individual

One musician, every gig.

Band

Up to 5 members sharing a workspace.

Team

Up to 20 members, one shared set.

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