StageBox

The ultimate live-performance tool for keyboard players

Your Rig Your Way

StageBox™ is a standalone plugin host and setlist manager for live keyboard players, designed to simplify performance and provide studio-quality sound on stage with no compromises.

With StageBox, you can take your favourite software instruments and effects plugins on stage, and create dream keyboard rigs not possible with traditional stage pianos.

StageBox is the brain child of Matt Robertson, a 3x Grammy-nominated composer & musical director. Frustrated with using overly complicated or compromised stage solutions like Mainstage, Gig Performer and Ableton Live he decided to team up with the legendary Jules Storer (JUCE/Tracktion Engine) to develop his own hosting software which focuses on ease of use and efficiency. Welcome to StageBox!

Adapt Your Set On the Go

StageBox lets you design custom instrument and effect setups using any VST3 or Audio Units plugins, then build them seamlessly into Songs and Sets. When you want to tweak the setlist, simply drag and drop songs into place using the straightforward at-a-glance UI.

Features

• Host VST3 and Audio Units software instruments and effects
• Tailored for live performance: create, adapt, manage and rearrange setlists
• Build songs from layers or splits of software instruments
• Share instruments between songs for quick set preparation
• Apply effects per sound, or per song
• Clutter-free layout only shows you what you need to see
• Simple MIDI Controller management and support for multiple devices
• Send sound layers to different hardware audio outputs

Outperform Traditional Stage Pianos

StageBox software frees you from the limitations of traditional hardware keyboards by unlocking the processing, storage and playback power of modern laptops, which greatly outperform stage keyboards. It also lets you access a huge range of sounds and processing using any VST3 or Audio Units plugin — not just the presets available on your hardware.

Carry Dream Rigs for Every Occasion

StageBox works with MIDI Controllers and multi-output audio interfaces so you can create custom control configurations and audio routing setups for all your live performance scenarios, however large or small.

Why Use StageBox

StageBox vs DAW

Many people have used DAWs for hosting AUs and VST3s in a Live performance environment, but quickly realise that they are not really designed for the task.

• Quick navigation

DAWs lack a good way to quickly navigate between Sounds and Songs, particularly if those Sounds are made from complex layers of different instruments.

• Flexible setlists

DAWs don't have a way to organise / change a Setlist made up of Songs and Sounds you have created.

• MIDI mappings

DAWs usually have MIDI mappings that are based on the whole session, rather than just the active selected Song.

• External MIDI

DAWs don't allow a Song selection to be made via an external MIDI pgm change command, which can be really useful in a Live environment.

• Optimized performance

DAWs don't allow you to share instrument resources between Sounds / Songs, which can allow for RAM saving when using large sample sets.

• On-the-fly transitions

DAWs usually don't have any way to make a seamless transition between two different sounds / songs, unless workarounds are made which compromise other areas of performance.

System Requirements

• macOS 13 or Later
• Apple Silicon recommended
• Windows 10, 11
• 64-bit