Just tablets — no PC
One person hits play,
everyone's score follows.
One tablet in the room becomes the clock. The rest simply keep up with it.
No PC, no DAW, no special gear. Open the same setlist, and the moment one person starts playback, everyone's score moves to the same song and the same position together.
A feature in progress
Sync Together is a new feature under development. Here is an early look at the experience it will bring.
You don't need a DAW to follow along¶
"Every score moves automatically along with playback" — until now, this was something PagePilot Conductor achieved by using a DAW on a Mac or PC as the timing source. It sends the playback position to several tablets, and each score follows the same flow.
That is genuinely useful, but bringing a DAW and a PC to every rehearsal is rarely practical.
Sync Together replaces that timing source with a single tablet among your bandmates. The mechanism is the same as Conductor. Instead of a DAW, someone's PagePilot Viewer broadcasts "which song, and where in it, we are right now," and the other tablets follow. Internally, PagePilot calls this mechanism "Local Conductor."
Say the drummer hits play¶
Picture a band rehearsal. The drummer starts a setlist song on their own tablet and begins playing along to the click.
At that moment, the guitarist's tablet, the bassist's tablet, and the vocalist's tablet all start moving their scores from the same song and the same position. Nobody is turning pages by hand. There are no cables and no PC anywhere.
One person becomes the "host" and plays
Just open a setlist and hit play. That tablet becomes the one broadcasting "which song, and where in it, we are."
It broadcasts over BLE to the others
Nearby tablets follow the host. Only the song number and the elapsed time within the song are sent — not the page turns themselves — so different scores never get crossed.
Each score advances at the same position
Each receiving tablet decides which page to show using its own score and page settings. So even with different scores, everyone stays in step at the same point in the song.
Why it's nice¶
Different scores are fine¶
The pianist can keep a piano part, the guitarist a chord chart, the vocalist a lyric sheet. Only the position is shared, so nobody has to hold the same score. Everyone keeps the score they want, and only the flow lines up.
No gear, no cables¶
All you need is tablets. No PC, no DAW, no audio interface, no cables. In a rehearsal studio or at home, you can start right where you are.
Everyone rides the drummer's click¶
When the host plays along to the click, every score follows that tempo and flow. Live-band sync performance comes together with just tablets.
Your usual auto page turns still apply¶
Each tablet runs on its own page settings, so the auto page turns you set up for practice carry straight over into sync performance. Jumps and tempo changes follow each score's own map.
What you need¶
Nothing special.
- Tablets with PagePilot Viewer installed (one per player)
- The same setlist, opened by everyone
That's it. No PC, no DAW, no dedicated gear.
For DAW-led shows, go one step further¶
When you want the timing source to be a DAW on a PC rather than a bandmate's tablet, PagePilot Conductor handles the same following, DAW-led.
Sync Together is the on-ramp — start by lining up with just tablets, then extend to a DAW when you need to. Either way, the underlying idea is the same: the score follows the timeline.
Current status¶
Sync Together is a new feature under development, and this page is an early look. Whether a device can become the playback "host" depends on the device (tablets that only follow work on a wider range of hardware). The entry points, supported devices, and detailed constraints will be added as the release takes shape.
See the manual for screen-by-screen instructions.