PadBrain: Drums for the Stage

PadBrain is built for drumming live: backing tracks to the house, the click to your in-ears and pad sounds on cue, from one iPhone, iPad or Mac. For small gigs, college shows, worship teams, rehearsals and lessons, without a laptop rig.

WHEN THE BAND DRIFTS
• SYNC: the band lands a beat off the click? Tap on the band's one and the click and bar count move to it at once. Undo for ten seconds.
• With a backing track, the same button takes the click out: you lead the band to the bar line, and the click comes back exactly on it.

ON STAGE
• Backing tracks and click run on one clock. One splitter cable: left to the house (tracks + pads), right to your in-ears (click + cues).
• One line under the song says where the sound goes — and warns when a single output puts the click in with the band.
• Section chips and HOLD: tap the chorus when the leader calls it, or HOLD for "once more". Moves land on the next bar line.
• "Next ▸ Chorus · 3 bars" beside the section, then the beats of the last bar.
• Voices only fades the band and keeps your click. An ambient pad in the song's key fills the space between songs.
• Stopped, tap the tempo to hear one bar of the next song's click in your ears before you count it in.
• PANIC (hold), LIVE LOCK (tap to lock, hold to unlock), foot switches and page-turner pedals.

PADS
• A kit per song, nine pads: a recorded acoustic kit with four dynamics and up to four takes per sound, a worship kit with ride, bell and floor tom, 808, percussion and FX.
• Plug in a USB MIDI pad, drum module or trigger and play. Around 10 ms.
• Pads that fire on a section's first beat, a crash on the chorus. Soft hits ignored and screen pads locked after a stop, if you want.

PREP
• Paste the song list from the chat: titles, keys, tempos, meters and song forms become a set. Backing tracks are optional.
• Share tracks from mail, a chat or AirDrop; the app listens for the tempo and sections.
• Rehearsal tempo 90–110%, pitch unchanged. Several sets, a linked iCloud Drive folder per set, a whole show in one file.
• Rig drawings, down to the plugs, and a pre-show check that warns when the click would reach the room.

Every feature free. No ads, no account, no data collected. Works offline.