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Start standalone
No app ever fails, nags, or degrades because a sibling is missing. That’s the prime rule of the whole suite, and it never softens.
Performance Percussion · The performance-first percussion company.
The percussion app forpeople who have to perform.
Plug in a MIDI controller, pick an instrument, play. No studio, no laptop, no manual — the samples already exist, and this is the thing that plays them.
Runs on iPad · Mac · Chromebook
“A lot of these people are trying to set up a recording studio on a football field — and this iPad fixes that.”Vince Romanelli · founder
Instruments
The players that don’t exist.
World-class samples exist for every kind of percussion. A simple, show-safe way to play them live doesn’t. That’s the whole job of these two: plug in a controller, pick a sound, play. A sampler makes sounds. A player just plays them.
Pit In Beta
Mac · iPad · Chromebook
The instruments you can’t bring outside.
A pitched-percussion sampler and show player for front ensembles, theatre pits, and schools. Marimbas, vibes, timpani — played from any class-compliant MIDI controller. Three verbs: Sounds, Split, Perform.
Meet Pit
Breakbeat In Beta
Mac · iPad · Raspberry Pi
The best samples. The easiest way to play them.
The flagship drum sampler. Turns MIDI drum controllers into an instrument: scan libraries, build kits, map controllers, arrange multi-controller stage plots — then perform, with a Raspberry Pi stage player for laptop-free gigs.
Meet Breakbeat
Software
Everything else the rig needs.
Show control, kit building, routing, and hardware editors — one job per app, in plain language. Take the one that solves today’s problem; ignore the rest. Status badges are honest: shipped, in progress, and designed are labeled apart.
Cycle In Beta
Mac + Raspberry Pi
Loops on a grid. Tempo on a leash.
A loop and groove player: an 8×8 clip grid with scenes and faders, built APC-Mini-first, with Ableton Link as the tempo spine. Not a sampler — tempo-locked loops, launched from pads.
Meet Cycle
Rundown Available
Mac (Electron)
The show spine.
Setlist and show control. Songs with title, BPM, and key; five MIDI actions per song; global Stop/Panic; MIDI learn; a full-screen Perform mode. On song change it fires recall at every app and device on the list.
Meet Rundown
Outs In Beta
iPad
Your Ableton set, out the outputs. No laptop.
A multistem backing-track player for iPad. Reads an Ableton .als set directly and plays the stems sample-locked out discrete outputs — 8 stereo pairs, 16 channels — warp-aware, with Studio and Stage modes.
Meet Outs
Backline In Design
Mac (Electron) — designed
Patch recall for the tech side of the stage.
The patch organizer for backline gear — Kemper Profiler and Neural DSP Quad Cortex first. Per song, per device, it stores the patch recall (Bank Select + Program Change; Quad Cortex scene CC) and fires it — from a big-button, tech-facing Performance View, or automatically when Rundown changes songs.
Read the design
Midiable In Design
Mac — designed
The Ableton bridge.
Everything that connects the suite to Ableton Live, under one product: every song in a setlist exported as a standard .mid clip; a full .als Live Set generated offline from a show; and the two-way live mirror between Rundown and Live.
Read the design
Breakbeat Lab In Beta
Kit creation
Turn sample libraries and VSTs into organized, portable .bkbt kits — velocity layers and round-robins captured automatically.
See the Workbench
Pit Lab In Beta
Instrument capture
The pitched-instrument wizard on the same engine: three steps from a library to Pit-ready sounds.
See the Workbench
Pathfinder Available
MIDI router
Routing, virtual ports, and a crosspoint matrix. The suite’s referee: it observes, it never carries your signal. Free.
See the Workbench
If you end up with more than one
They already know each other.
Most people buy one app and stop there — that’s the design. But own two or more and they find each other on your LAN and speak one show-control language, with no setup screen and no cloud account. “Build the show once — your setlist programs your hardware.”
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Connect when it helps
Every app works 100% standalone — most people buy one or two. But when you own several, they recognize each other and just work together. No setup screen, no cloud account. When Rundown advances the set, Breakbeat recalls the kit, Cycle loads the performance, Pit changes the patch.
/suite/setlist/* · /suite/panic · Bonjour · Ableton Link
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Keep the show running
If the coordinator dies mid-show, audio keeps playing. Wired USB MIDI for shows — never Bluetooth. Works offline; nothing phones home.
Why performance-first
The standard is the performance — not the recording.
A director needs tools that sound good from the stands, make sense to a student, and stay calm when the pressure is real. Most tools in this space were built for the studio mindset — max velocity layers, max realism, max complexity. Performance-first means knowing what’s worth perfecting and what isn’t, and making the right version for the job.
Performance Percussion is built by a percussionist who did the hard part so the next person doesn’t have to become the system tech.
Where this is going
Your rig. Ready for the show.
Begin with one app. Build toward the system your performance needs — and read what’s coming next, honestly labeled.