Glossary

Short definitions of the terms you meet across the platform. Three tools keep a much deeper reference of their own field, published as public pages: the rigging glossary, the FreqSense field notes and the PowerSense good-practice rules.

Platform

• Account sync — the tools that support it store their data in your account so the same rundown or plan opens on another device. Last write wins. See Account sync.
• Licence — the one-time purchase that unlocks a paid tool on your account. Bought on Gumroad, activated with a key. See Licences and paid tools.
• Claim link — the /claim/{tool} page that turns a Gumroad purchase into an unlocked tool on your account.
• PWA — Progressive Web App: the platform installed to the home screen, launching fullscreen and working offline. See Offline and installing the app.
• Share link — a read-only page other people open without an account. Show Clock uses them for the running order.
• Coming soon — a tool that is listed but not released; its landing page describes what it will do.

Show day

• Running order / rundown — the ordered list of everything that happens tonight and when. Show Clock's core object.
• Slot — one entry in a running order: a start time, a type (Doors, Set, Changeover…), a label, optional duration and notes.
• Offset — the running-late or running-early shift applied to every upcoming time at once. See Getting started.
• Changeover — the gap between two acts when the stage is reset. Also Umbau in German rundowns.
• Curfew — the hard end time the venue or licence imposes.
• Cue — a short text message the operator pushes to everyone on a share link.
• Stage plot — the drawing of the stage: positions of players, amps, monitors, risers and inputs. The venue's first look at your show.
• Input list / patch sheet — the numbered list of every channel: source, mic or DI, stand, phantom power, notes. PatchSmith's core object; also part of a stage plot.
• Strip name — the short channel name a console can show, usually 12 characters or fewer.
• Stereo pair — two adjacent channels linked as one stereo source. Behringer X32 and Midas M32 link odd–even pairs only.
• DCA — a digital control group: one fader that scales several channels.
• Tech rider — the document a band sends a venue: stage plot, input list, backline, monitoring, hospitality. RiderSmith will assemble it.
• Setlist — the ordered list of songs for a show, with keys, tempos and durations. SetlistForge's core object.
• Royalties report — the list of performed works a collecting society (GEMA, PRS, SACEM…) needs after a gig. Called Tantiemen in SetlistForge's German UI.

Plan the rig

• Frequency coordination — choosing wireless frequencies so microphones and in-ear systems do not interfere with each other or with TV and other users. FreqSense's job.
• Intermodulation (IM) — spurious frequencies created when two or more transmitters mix; the reason "free" channels can still collide.
• Duplex gap — a slice of the band, reserved between uplink and downlink of mobile services, that wireless microphones must avoid.
• Load / WLL / MBS — the weight on a point, the working load limit a component is rated for, and its minimum breaking strength. Deeper: the rigging glossary.
• Bridle — two legs from separate points meeting at one apex so a load can hang where no beam is. Leg tension rises as the legs flatten.
• Uplift — the situation where a load placed past the last support tries to lift the far end. RiggingSense shows it live.
• Feed — one supply of power (a socket, a distro outlet) with a rating in amps and phases. PowerSense plans loads per feed.
• Three-phase — a supply with three live conductors; a three-phase device draws its plated current on every phase.
• RT60 — the time reverberation takes to decay by 60 dB; the number RoomSense uses to size treatment.
• SPL / dose — sound pressure level, and the exposure over time that hearing-safety limits are written against.
• LUFS — the loudness unit streaming platforms normalise to; RoomSense shows the common targets.

Studio and training

• BPM — beats per minute. Tapped in BPM Forge, detected by TempoSense, set per song in SetlistForge.
• Tempo map — a tempo that changes over the course of a song; ClickSmith builds click tracks from one.
• Count-in — the clicks before bar one so everyone starts together.
• Delay time — a delay in milliseconds derived from the tempo and a note value (quarter, dotted eighth…).
• MIDI clock / beat pulse — timing messages TempoSense can send so a DAW or lighting desk follows the detected tempo.
• Ear training — the SoundSense games: hearing EQ moves, compression, levels and ringing frequencies before you reach for the fader.
• Ring-out — finding and cutting the frequencies that feed back in a monitor before the band plays.
• Cents — hundredths of a semitone; PitchSense and the tuner show how far off a note is in cents.