For

stage ops

For bands that play to stems, a click and triggered sounds, on a grid or off it, with the rig split across machines.

the sampler

Recorded audio plays, slices and stretches inside a patch.

A patch gets a front panel a player can reach mid-set, with settings that come back the next time.

A patch keeps time from its own clock, from another app or from no clock at all, and parts of it can keep different time.

Controllers, sensors and phones send values into a patch over MIDI, HID, serial, OSC and Bluetooth.

A patch runs on a computer with no screen or keyboard, and the rest of the rig is checked from another machine.