u/themusicguy760

I’m curious how other MDs / playback people are handling weekly Ableton prep.

For church sets, the workflow I keep seeing is:

Planning Center setlist → download stems → drag everything into Ableton → set BPMs → add locators/sections → check guide/click → repeat every week.

For teams doing 4–6 songs, that can turn into a lot of repetitive setup before you even get to the musical stuff.

I’ve been working on a tool to automate that workflow, but I’m trying to sanity-check the problem first:

For those of you building Ableton sessions for worship/church sets, what’s the most annoying part of the process?

Stem organization? Locators? Tempo changes? Custom templates/routing? AbleSet compatibility? Something else?