Right now the show lives in memory — yours, and everyone else’s, each a slightly different version of it. The fastest thing to go wrong is a quiet assumption nobody said out loud. PatchMap gets the whole show — patch, wireless, network audio, every change — out of everyone’s heads and into one live document the crew can see. Still accurate at 11pm.
Free to start. No card.
PatchMap is node-based, so the show assembles itself as you go. Drop a kit, a keys rig or a 24-piece string section onto the stage and it patches and labels every input for you — numbered, named and in order. Then override, reserve or block any channel by hand.
You’re placing gear, not filling in a spreadsheet. The show that used to be an evening of typing is a few minutes of dragging.
Point Smart Import at whatever you already have — a CSV, a spreadsheet, a PDF rider, or a photo of the sheet taped inside the case — and it reads the thing and builds the show. Every input placed, counted and labelled, ready to work on.
Hand-typing a show into a computer is the thing we’re trying to delete. Not speed it up, not give it a nicer form to fill in — delete it. You already did that work once, on paper, in a rush, at load-in. Doing it again is not what an evening is for.
Every tool in this space got faster at building the wrong document. PatchMap isn’t a faster PDF. It’s a live one.
First Smart Import is on the house and counts against nothing.
When the show only lives in people’s heads, things slip — not because anyone’s careless, but because everyone’s working from their own version of it. Open a Live Room and there’s one version in front of everyone, live on their own phone: the stage tech sees the stage, monitors see monitor world, musicians see their channel and can ask for help.
Flag a problem on the exact channel and it routes to whoever can fix it — spotted, seen, resolved, in front of everyone.
Whether it’s a crew you’ve run with for years or one you met tonight, everyone’s finally working from the same thing.
None of this works on a messy document. It works because the show already lives in PatchMap as one clean source of truth — build it once, and the room runs on it.
A solo room is free on every tier. Inviting your crew in is Pro.
Print it once, tape it to the case. Anyone loading in — your crew, a house tech who’s never seen this show, local labor — opens it once and leaves it open. Every change you make pushes live, with a timestamp showing exactly when it last updated. No rescanning.
Included on the free tier.
Three documents, three windows, cross-referenced at showtime and hoping nothing’s out of sync — now one source of truth, live on every device.
Hit Instance Forward and PatchMap carries the whole show to the next date — patch, gear, wireless, notes, all of it. No duplicating a file, no erasing last week and hoping you remembered everything that changed.
It isn’t a copy. The new date stays linked to the one before it, so what you end up with is a show with a history rather than a folder full of near-identical versions with dates in the filenames.
Which is the shape most of the work actually has. The same room every Sunday, the same band every Friday, the same tour in a different building. Ninety per cent of it is the same every time — and it’s the other ten per cent that bites you at soundcheck.
Do that a few times and you don’t have a document any more. You have a record.
When the show lives in PatchMap and the room runs through it, everything gets kept as you work — not in a creepy way, just recorded. So you can ask what you never could before: where a mic keeps failing, how this run compares to last year, what actually changed since last month.
One show is a record. Twenty is a pattern you couldn’t see until now.
Shown with a demonstration dataset. This is what your own history becomes.
Every tier includes everything below it. Nothing is ever hidden.