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.

Pliris™ organizes everything around four nested ideas. Once you see how they stack, the whole app clicks into place. This is that map, in depth.

The hierarchy

Band → Song → Arrangement, with Setlists cutting across your songs to build a show.

• A band contains songs.
• A song has one or more arrangements.
• An arrangement holds the actual music and everything synced to it.
• A setlist orders songs for a specific performance.

Let's take each one.

Bands

A band is your workspace and the container for everything else — songs, arrangements, stems, setlists, and members. It's the front door.

If you're a touring engineer or MD working across multiple artists, each artist gets their own band, keeping catalogs cleanly separated.

Plan limits:

• Free tier: one band.
• Paid: unlimited bands.

You can also invite members to a band — bandmates, techs, managers — and give them granular permissions (view only, download files, create setlists, manage arrangements, edit songs, manage members).

Songs

A song lives inside a band. It's the tune — title and identity. When you add a song, Pliris automatically creates its first arrangement so you always have somewhere to put the music.

Plan limits:

• Free tier: 15 songs total across your account.
• Paid: unlimited songs.

Think of a song as the name on the setlist. The how it actually sounds tonight lives one level down, in the arrangement.

Arrangements

This is where the work lives. An arrangement is a specific version of a song — a studio version, a live version, an acoustic version, a shortened festival edit. Because each version can differ in tempo, length, and structure, each one is its own arrangement.

An arrangement holds:

• Stems — the individual tracks (drums, bass, vocals, synths, etc.) you play back, mute, and solo.
• Tempo — the base BPM and, for warped material, a full tempo map.
• Key — extracted automatically on analysis.
• Time signature — also extracted on analysis.
• Sections — Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge and friends, placed on the timeline so you can jump around (press 1-9 to jump to a section).
• Lyrics — auto-extracted and time-synced, with the current line highlighted during playback. Editable line by line.
• Chords — auto-extracted chord data rendered as a chart that follows playback.
• MIDI cues — events that fire external gear (lighting consoles, click tracks, pedals) at precise timecodes. Each member programs their own; everyone can see all cues. Press C to quickly add one.

The arrangement page has two view modes: Simple (a clean waveform with collapsible panels below) and Pro (a DAW-style layout with section lanes and draggable inline MIDI cue markers). Toggle between them at the top of the page.

Plan limits:

• Free tier: 1 arrangement per song.
• Paid: unlimited arrangements per song.

On the free tier, auto-analyze extracts sections, tempo, beats, time signature, and stems — and manual mode is always available (type your BPM, add sections from Ableton, upload your own stems). A subscription adds key, chords, and lyrics to auto-analyze, the Standard/Pro/Custom Set Builder templates (plus uploading your own template), and full access to Playback Academy.

Pro tip: Because arrangements are independent, you can keep a full studio version and a stripped acoustic version of the same song side by side, and drop whichever one you need into tonight's setlist.

Setlists

A setlist puts songs in order for a performance. It's the cross-cutting layer — it pulls from your song library and sequences it for a show.

From a setlist you can:

• Add songs from your library and drag to reorder them.
• Share a public link so the band (or crew, or fans) can view and play without an account. Public viewers can listen to reference audio but can't download stems.
• Print a clean PDF for the music stand.
• Assign LTC timecode values for syncing external gear.
• Export the whole show back to Ableton as one running Live Set, every song in order.

Plan limits:

• Free tier: unlimited setlists.
• Paid: unlimited setlists.

Plan limits at a glance

There's no trial period — new accounts start on the free tier and stay there until you subscribe to Pliris. The free-tier limits above apply until you upgrade.

Frequently asked questions

How many bands can I create in Pliris?

The free tier includes one band; paid accounts get unlimited bands. If you're a touring engineer or MD working across multiple artists, each artist gets their own band to keep catalogs cleanly separated.

What's the difference between a song and an arrangement?

A song is the tune's title and identity — the name on the setlist. An arrangement is a specific version of that song (studio, live, acoustic, festival edit) and holds the actual music: stems, tempo, key, time signature, sections, lyrics, chords, and MIDI cues.

How many songs and arrangements does the free tier include?

The free tier allows 15 songs total across your account and 1 arrangement per song, along with 10 GB of storage. Paid accounts get unlimited songs and unlimited arrangements per song.

Is there a free trial of Pliris?

No — there's no trial period. New accounts start on the free tier and stay there, with the free-tier limits applying, until you subscribe to Pliris.

Can people without a Pliris account view my setlist?

Yes. You can share a public link to a setlist so the band, crew, or fans can view and play it without an account — public viewers can listen to reference audio but can't download stems.

Where to go next

• Ready to start? Creating Your First Band.
• Curious how analysis fills in tempo, key, and sections? Analysis Credits Explained.
• Want the whole flow end to end? Your First Five Minutes with Pliris, then building a setlist.

Questions about limits or upgrades? Click the support bubble on any page or email support@fromstudiotostage.com.