OnStage Clips

This application is to be used on stage to provide playback of audio files already present on an Android device at user prompted times. The application calls these audio files Clips.

The Clips are primarily intended to provide audio effects to accompany a live stage performance of a song. The Clips can also provide accompaniments of musical instruments not present on stage.

The user starts playback of each Clip by either using the touch screen or using an externally attached foot pedal switch. After playing back a Clip the program waits for user input before playing back the next Clip.

The application provides the means for the user to configure the order in which the Clips are played and also to organise them into sets which the application calls a Song.

In turn the user can configure the order in which Songs are played and also to organise sets of Songs into a Performance.

Performances and Songs can be saved for later use or reuse.

Multiple Performances can be configured but only one Performance can be played back at a time.

When the user starts the playback of a performance the application will display to the user which Song and Clip in the Performance will be played next . When the user touches the screen or depresses the pedal switch then that Clip will be played back. At the end of the Clip the application will again prompt the user as to the next configured Clip to playback but will wait until the user touches the screen or depresses the pedal switch. This will continue until all the Clips configured for playback in the Performance and the Songs in the Performance have been played.

The application also allows the user to skip to the start of the Clip currently being played, the start of a previous Clip or the start of the next Clip. In turn the application allows the user to skip to the start of the current Song, the start of the previous song or the start of the next Song. Also in turn the application allows the user to skip to the start of the current Performance.