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Central Usage

Each musician's chart, sound and mix

Central Usage is the app for the people on stage. Each musician and singer gets their own chord chart, the lyrics, their instrument sound and their own in-ear mix. It works at church and at home.

MusicianSinger
 per musicianWhat it does

Each key works on two devices, so a player can have one at church and one at home.

Central Usage's Chord chart: Amazing Grace in G with chords over the lyrics, the current verse highlighted, and section buttons for each verse.

What Central Usage does

Charts and lyricsYour soundStudio and controls

Charts and lyrics

  • A chart that keeps upIt highlights where the band is in the song. It's in your key and your clef, and it shows your instrument's part.
  • The chart you read bestChords over the words, Nashville numbers, a lead sheet or notation.
  • Lyrics for the singersThe words move along with the song and the next lines come up before you need them.

Your sound

  • Your own in-ear mixTurn the tracks and the band up or down from your own phone or tablet.
  • Play an instrumentPlug in a keyboard or a guitar. There are 136 sounds built in, and the plans add more.
  • Plugins you already ownOn a computer you can use your own VST3, Audio Units, CLAP and LV2 plugins.

Studio and controls

  • StudioRecord ideas and loops. It runs on the same engine as Central Production, and Open in Central Production takes your work straight there.
  • Learn any controlMIDI pedals, footswitches, keyboards and Stream Deck all work. Press Learn and move the control.
  • Two people, one deviceUser 1 and User 2 can share a computer, each with their own part and mix.
  • Change the coloursYou can change any colour in the app.

Screenshots

These are from the real app, not mock-ups.

Central Usage's Chord chart: Amazing Grace in G with chords over the lyrics, the current verse highlighted, and section buttons for each verse.
Each musician's chord chart follows the song and highlights where the band is.
Central Usage's Lyrics tab: the second verse of Amazing Grace in large text with the next verse underneath.
Singers see the words as the song moves, with the next lines coming up.
Central Usage's In-ears tab: Mix 1 with a Listen here button and a fader for each channel - Instrument, Click, Drums, Bass, Keys, Vocals.
Every musician sets their own in-ear mix from their own laptop.
Central Usage's Instrument tab with Piano and keys picked: a grid of 136 sounds with E.Piano 1 chosen, layers, and an on-screen keyboard.
Plug in a keyboard or guitar and play it through 136 built-in sounds.

Who it's for

MusicianSinger

The musicians and singers, each on their own phone, tablet or computer.

Where it runs

MacWindowsLinuxiPhone and iPadAndroid

Free to download for Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad, Android. The first time it opens, it asks for your key.

Downloads

Get it

 per musician

Each key works on two devices, so a player can have one at church and one at home.

Church packs

If you want every detail, there's a full Central Usage manual. Stuck on something? Try the Help Center.

The other apps

They're separate apps, but on the same Wi-Fi they find each other and share the work.

The Central Pedal's own touchscreen in LIVE: Amazing Grace playing in G at 72 BPM with 1:58 left, verse buttons, Pause, Next, Vamp and Safe stop, and the eight pads.

Central Pedal

The pedal at the worship leader's feet

A floor unit that plays your pads and multitracks, shows the chart and lyrics, and runs a looper and a guitar or keys rig. It has 12 footswitches, knobs, a touch screen and two HDMI ports. We build and test each one, and it arrives ready to play.

See what it does
Central Pedal Control's TRACKS screen: Holy, Holy, Holy's waveform with its verses marked, the lyrics for the current section, rehearse and speed controls, and a mixer for Click, Drums, Bass, Keys and Vocals.

Central Pedal Control

Get the pedal ready from home

This is where the week's prep happens. Build the setlist, add songs and tracks, set up the pads and the instrument, and decide what each button on the pedal does. When you're done, press Upload and it all goes to the pedal.

See what it does
The Lighting tab: the stage in 3D with trusses, moving heads, light bars and beams, above the presets

Central Control

The desk runs the whole service

Central Control runs the room from the desk: lights, lyrics, slides, cameras, the stream, in-ears and the run sheet. If you have more than one computer back there, give each one its own jobs and they work together.

See what it does

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