BANDIT

BANDIT (BAND Information Technology) is an upcoming MacOS and Windows app for your music group. Collect song meta-data, tabs and lyrics and distribute it to the group members during rehearsal or concerts using BANDIT RemoteView. Visualize lyrics and chords syncronized to backtrack. Control your equipment with OSC (Open Sound Control) and/or MIDI and light fixtures with DMX. Split audio using "state-of-the-art" AI technique into separate stems, transpose chords, pitch audio, slow down playback speed and much more to facilitate learning and become a better musician/band.

See below some functions and views in BANDIT - there is much more in BANDIT as Multiple mp3-sources (Backtrack, Reference Audio, Recording,...), Multitrack playback, BANDIT Browser (yes a web browser!), a Practice Tracker, a Song Database Manager, a Playlist Editor, User-defined YouTube tutorial Links, SpotifyURL Link, ...

BANDIT is customizable and a BANDIT Community will be launched in 2025 for sharing customizations (Themes, Language Translations, View Templates, ...) but above all BANDIT Song Definition files (bsd-files) that define songs in BANDIT. We hope you will jump on the BAND(IT)wagon!

Some History

BANDIT originates from an application called RecoveryPlayer thats been used in the band RECOVERY for more than 15 years. The RecoveryPlayer app and the BANDIT app has been used on many gigs and has never failed.

BANDIT Player - Lyrics View

Above a screenshot of BANDIT Player showing the Lyrics View. Suitable if you are playing without a backtrack. The playlist is docked to the screen edge (not showing).

BANDIT Player - Training Tools

Above a screenshot of BANDIT Player in dark mode with many functions enabled to facilitate the rehearsal of a song. The playback is looped around the solo section of the song. The song is transposed two semitones up and the audio pitched to the same degree. The song is played at 70% speed to more easily learn the solo. The song guitar chords are showing. The user defined Command Grid is showing with commands to control external equipment. The playlist is docked to the screen edge (not showing).

BANDIT Player - Karaoke View

Above a screenshot of BANDIT Player showing the Karaoke View. Suitable if you are playing along to a time-syncronized backtrack.

BANDIT Preferences

BANDIT Song Editor

Above a screenshot of BANDIT Song Editor. Create song lyrics, tabs, and syncronize lyrics to a backtrack/reference audio file. Define MIDI, OSC to control equipment and DMX commands to control light fixtures when the song loads or time-syncronized to audio playback.

BANDIT RemoteView

Above a screenshot of BANDIT RemoteView. The band members connects tablets/phones to BANDIT over a local network and view lyrics/scrolling lyrics/tabs/meta data/playlist in the web browser. The view changes when a new song is selected in BANDIT Player, tempo changed, the view scaled in BANDIT Player or the song edited i BANDIT Song Editor. The tempo button in the lower right corner flashes according to the song tempo.