Setlist Builder: a free Cinderhall tool

Quick start & export: Setlist Builder

Add songs with key, tempo, tuning, length and energy, or use the built-in demo.
Reorder and pin songs; try a suggested order and Undo if you prefer the original.
Export JSON for an editable backup, or print the running order.

Transition advice is heuristic. “Hear the join” uses synthesized sketches, not your recordings. Sets save in this browser where storage is available; export a backup before clearing browser data.

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Setlist Builder CinderhallFree tool · Road Worn series

Band name

Put your songs in the order that flows. Every join is checked for keys, tempo, guitar tunings and energy; the night's energy is drawn against a classic show arc; and the builder can suggest a better order that you keep or undo. Press “Hear the join” to listen to any transition. Everything stays on this machine: no account, no network.

Energy across the night

━ song energy┅ target arc▮ tuning break◆ segue✕ clash

Set score

– /100

Length–

Songs–

Tuning changes–

Segues–

Building

Target length

min

Running order · drag, arrows, or keys ↑ ↓ · P pins

How the set scores

Notes

Not in the set

Joins. Two songs can segue (no gap) when they share a tuning, their keys are the same, relative or a fifth apart, and the tempo moves by 12 BPM or less. Keys a semitone or a tritone apart clash if played back to back. In a live show a tuning change costs about a minute on stage; on an album it costs nothing.

The arc. A live set wants a strong opener, momentum, a breather around two-thirds through, then a rebuild to the biggest moment at the end. An album wants a strong opener, a quieter track in the middle and an epic closer. The score weighs the opener, closer, joins, arc, tuning changes, variety and length.

Your songs. Add a song and set its key, tempo, tuning, length, how it starts and ends, and its energy (Start / Peak / End). Sets autosave in this browser; export JSON files to keep several sets: festival 30, headline 60, the album.

Setlist Builder is a free tool from Cinderhall, the Road Worn plugin workshop. Fonts: Big Shoulders Display and Familjen Grotesk (SIL Open Font License 1.1, texts in the fonts folder). “Hear the join” is a synthesised sketch of the transition, not your recordings.