BTSuite is composed by two unique softwares: BT_ASSEMBLER and BT_PLAYER (they include also a pdf User Manual).

These applications allow you to:
A) customize the song depending on your needs
B) create a live show that is always under the band leader’s direct control.
Softwares can be used both on Mac and Pc Windows operating-systems. (See system requirements).

Windows®:

- Intel Pentium® dual-core with 2 GB of RAM

- Operating System Windows XP SP2; SP3

- Apple Quick Time 7.5.4 or superior; http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

- Java™ Virtual Machine: Sun™ JRE 1.6; http://www.java.com/it/download/

- ASIO4ALL; http://www.asio4all.com

- Card audio recognized by the system;

Mac OS®:

- Intel Pentium® dual-core with 2 GB of RAM

- Operative System: 10.4.X - 10.5.X - 10.6

1) BT Assembler
Assembler is the first software to be used and it allows to edit the purchased song completely.

Editing means:
A) Modifying the structure by cutting off some measures, copying and pasting entire sections of the piece, modifying intro and finals, creating medley and much more.
B) Arranging the piece tuning in real time by providing higher or lower-shiftings in half steps. The great innovation introduced by Backing-Tracks is that the pitch-shifting process does not affect the tracks of the drums.
C) Arranging the piece speed by acting on the bpm or even by drawing flights for the “accelerando” or “rallentando”.
The software has been conceived so that it can be used in rehearsal room where these arrangements may be carried out. It has also the necessary hints, such as the “2 BAR COUNT OFF”, so that play-sessions can take place correctly. This function allows to play the piece starting from a particular structure section (for example the chorus). If the 2 Bar CO is enabled Assembler supplies the drummer with 2 click measures which help giving the band the count off so that one can start playing the Chorus afterwards!!!
Once the piece has been edited you can go on with the second software called PLAYER.

2) BT Player
Player is the real innovation and it permits handling one’s set lists as the play lists of a player software. If you drag the songs into the window you can create the treatment and modify the pieces performing order at once. Say goodbye to the old mini disks or cd-players capacity limits. Now everything depends only on the capacity of the hard disk the songs are recorded on. The convenience of creating different play-lists consists in having old treatments (parcelled out for club or evening) at hand. Player has the unique feature that it may be handled remotely. You are not obliged to have your hands free to direct the evening. As a matter of fact one can control everything thanks to a MIDI file by using a pedal device (in case of singers, guitarists or keyboardists) or a multi pad in case of drummers. Player has all the functions needed by the band for a correct execution of the show. For example you can decide how much time must elapse between a song and the following one, fix a precise number of pieces in order without a break, stop to make an introduction and then just start again by activating a signal or interrupt the treatment at the end of a piece by setting in the auto-pause. You can modify the order of the pieces sequence during the evening execution by winding forward the selector “next song to play”. This always activating a command remotely. Once it has ultimated the song being executed Player will spring directly to the selected song. In case one gets back through the treatment, the programme will not play again the songs which have already been played.
The night is always under control. You know for sure what song is being played and which will be the next one, how many measures and how much time have elapsed from the beginning, how many measures are still to be played and how much is still left.
The whole playlist may be controlled in the same way. Eventually there is a timekeeper section which is very useful for those who must execute a show with a fixed running time. This backwards running timekeeper allows to reckon the time left to execute the playlist and to decide if some pieces must be stricken off. Well, this simple programme is the real solution to all old problems in handling a Live show!

ATTENTION:
If you are already a recorded customer and you have not download yet your copy of the software BT Suite, please click here to get it immediately.