macOS 12+ · Live Performance
Confidently drive backing tracks and video from any cheap Mac. The interface is designed to be read across a dark room, driven by big buttons and assignable keys. Add PRO and design your lightshow sync'd to the music. No designer, no lighting engineer, no large-venue budget.
Fat fingers
Design for gig conditions. Big text, big buttons and customisable keys.
Low risk
All the data is on the Mac. Backup to a spare Mac.
Low cost Mac
Use a low cost Mac — macOS 12+ and 2015 models supported.
Remote control
iPad, iPhone and Android apps control the Mac app over Wi-Fi.
GIG — Built for the stage
Most backing track apps are designed for the studio. GwavaTRACKS is designed to be used under pressure at the gig.
macOS 12 Monterey and above — 2015 Macs. All the data is on the Mac hard disk, so no requirement for internet. The Backup/Restore feature means you can quickly set up a backup Mac.
High contrast on near-black. Large song titles, big nav buttons, customised keys, colour-coded rows. Perfect for the high stress of a live gig.
Hit the spacebar to kill the song and reset. Turn on Auto Follow for any song and the next one plays automatically. Assign a Finale song and trigger it with a single keypress to cue that song.
Real-time waveform display with elapsed and remaining time always visible. Current song and "up next" displayed prominently so the whole band knows where you are.
The Mac app can also be controlled by an iPad, iPhone or Android. Connected securely by your Wi-Fi.
Got your songs in iTunes / Music app or a spreadsheet? Your library is built in seconds. No re-entering everything by hand.
Drive a video backdrop on a second screen. You can have a default band video or override it for different songs.
Full Backup and Restore. Sync everything to a second machine before the show. If anything goes wrong on the night, switch and keep playing.
From zero to encore
Artist, title, BPM. It creates a setlist and adds new songs to the song library. Or import songs from CSV. Build a setlist manually — add songs and drag into order.
Drag the audio files onto the songs — MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, AIFF. If you want, drag videos onto the band or each song — MP4, M4V, MOV.
Quicklists is a separate setlist of colour-coded songs at the bottom of the performance view. Use it for test and soundcheck songs, or songs not in the setlist — like Happy Birthday.
Hit Enter. At the end of every song, the next is cued — just hit Enter to keep the show flowing. Panic Stop kills the track and resets. Hit Finale to jump straight to the end of the show.
PRO — Lighting designer and controller
A choreographed lightshow has always been out of reach unless you're at a large venue with a budget for a lighting designer spending days programming, and a lighting engineer at every gig to run it.
GwavaTRACKS PRO changes all of that. The lighting designer builds a complete set of scenes for each song in seconds using AI or presets. Trigger each lighting scene or chase — a sequence of scenes — from a MIDI file attached to each song. The light show runs automatically when you launch the song, all night.
Set up each fixture type you own and then drag and drop the channel definitions. Create a Lighting Project with your rig setup — fixtures and their DMX addresses.
Choose colours, styles and patterns and the lighting designer will create a chase with scenes. Use AI (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) and it costs less than 10c to create 16 scenes.
Set colours and use the presets — sweep, figure 8, in/out odd/even — to quickly create chases and scenes for your LEDs and moving heads. See the show inside the designer.
Merge the chase and scenes into a lighting project and assign a MIDI note so the song MIDI file can trigger the chase or any scene. Use the simulator or connect the lights to audition the show.
There are only 127 MIDI notes available. But we've created themes where you can use 127 notes per theme for any song. Don't like the look? Just flip the theme at the song level.
GwavaTRACKS drives industry-standard DMX512 via the Enttec Pro USB controller. Plug it into the Mac, one DMX cable to the rig, and you're live. Works with any DMX512 fixture or rig.
Controller apps
GwavaTRACKS runs on the Mac. But control it from a remote device. Connects over Wi-Fi automatically. Uses the setlist downloaded from the Mac to eliminate any lag.
The engine. Runs your tracks, drives your lights, manages songs and setlists. Lives on the Mac that stays on stage. All the data is on the Mac, reducing risk and lag.
Hosts the sessionFull performance view on iPad, mirroring the Mac interface. It drives the Mac which holds the data, so lower risk.
Auto-connects over Wi-FiEssential controls in anyone's pocket. A cut-down interface, but still has the essentials: play, stop, next, panic stop. Anyone in the band can drive the show from wherever they're standing — no need to reach the Mac.
Auto-connects over Wi-FiTiers
The trial includes PRO features — unlimited songs and setlists, 30-second playback cap, up to 10 lighting scenes and 1 chase, no backup/restore.