Pliris Docs

Guides and reference for Pliris™ — the multitrack stems player for live performance by From Studio to Stage. Learn how to import songs from Ableton Live, upload and analyze stems, build setlists, program MIDI cues, and send LTC/SMPTE timecode.

Getting Started

  • What Is Pliris? — The big-picture mental model — what Pliris is, who it's for, and the four nouns that hold your whole live rig together.
  • Signing In to Pliris — Where to sign in, how the magic-link flow works, and how one sign-in carries across every From Studio to Stage app — there is no separate Pliris login page.
  • Your First Five Minutes with Pliris — The one path that takes you from a fresh account to running an Ableton show set — in about five minutes.
  • Bands, Songs, Arrangements, and Setlists — The full data model — how bands hold songs, songs hold arrangements, arrangements hold your show, and setlists put it all in order.
  • Creating Your First Band — Add your first band, set its name and profile image, and understand what a band actually holds — the front door to everything in Pliris.
  • Credits Explained — What "Analyze on Upload" does, how credits work, why analysis is now priced per minute of audio, and why re-importing an Ableton file never costs you anything.
  • The Pliris Account Menu — The same avatar menu in every Pliris app — your profile, credit and storage meters, and account links that open already signed in.

Songs & Setlists

  • Uploading and Analyzing Your Stems — Upload raw stems, let Pliris analyze them into key, tempo, sections, lyrics, and chords, then name and audition each track.
  • Importing a Song from Ableton Live — Bring a song in from Ableton in one drop. Collect All and Save, zip the project folder, drop it on the uploader — Pliris reads your tempo, sections, and arrangement AND pulls in your stems together. (A bare .als is structure-only.)
  • Building and Sharing a Setlist — Create a setlist, add and reorder songs, share it public or private, print it to PDF, and assign LTC timecode values.
  • The Setlist Navigation Panel — Open a song from a setlist and a floating panel follows you — jump back to the set, skip to the next song, or leap anywhere in the list.
  • Exporting Your Show Back to Ableton — Export a whole setlist as one Ableton Live Set with every arrangement in order and LTC timecode tracks pre-configured.
  • Updating an Arrangement from Ableton — Change a song in Ableton — mutes, deactivated clips, a duplicated chorus — drop the .als on its arrangement, and the on-page player updates in place. No re-upload.
  • Updating Your Set's Arrangements from Ableton — Export your set, rehearse and edit it in Ableton, drop the one file back on the setlist — and update each arrangement or spin up new versions, your call, song by song.
  • How to Choose an Ableton Template — Your template decides how every Ableton export from the app is structured — single songs and whole sets alike. An account admin sets it per band under Account settings → Ableton template. CLI and API cloud builds take their own per-build template instead.
  • Snapshot History — Every Version of Your Work — Pliris saves a version every time you change an arrangement or setlist. See exactly what changed, and restore any version — safely, because restoring is itself undoable.

Hardware & Setup

Troubleshooting

  • Stems Won't Play or Are Silent — A practical checklist for when audio won't start, a stem is silent, or your stems never uploaded — upload, analysis, browser, and output.

Account & Billing

  • Plans, Credits, and Billing — What the free tier includes, what a Pliris subscription unlocks, how credits work, and where to manage your plan.

Still need help? Ask the Pliris AI assistant or email support@fromstudiotostage.com.