A plugin can't stop the show
Each plugin plays in its own process. If one crashes or falls behind, Joue restarts it, or switches it off and tells you. Everything else keeps playing.
Free while in beta · for Mac
Keyboard rigs for the theatre that don't let you down.
Joue plays your show's sounds on a Mac, patch by patch through the book. Every plugin runs on its own, so if one fails, the rest of the show plays on.
Apple silicon, macOS 26 · 2 MB, with no sounds to download
Built for the pit, not the studio
Silent, and never a beachball
No clicks when the audio starts or stops, for the desk and the PA. Joue never makes you wait on a spinning cursor mid-number.
One folder, any Mac
A show is one folder. Copy it to the backup Mac and it plays there too: each Mac keeps its own idea of which keyboard is which.
Memory efficient
Patches are loaded ahead of your position, with older ones being unloaded to make room if necessary.
Live Mode
Readable from the bench, dark enough for the pit
- The patch you're on, big, in coral. The next one beside it, loading before you need it.
- A key map that shows what each part of the keyboard plays, with the keys you're holding lit.
- Checks you can see at a glance: the audio, the keyboards, and that the Mac won't sleep.
- Hold to exit, so a stray key mid-show does nothing.
Building the show
Edit while it plays
Songs, their patches, and each patch's routes, one step in from the last. Whatever you select is what you hear, so you build a patch with your hands on the keys.
Bring your instruments: EXS instruments import, and every Audio Unit you own is there. Split a stacked instrument into separate channels in a click.
Read the guideTry it on your next show
Joue is free while it's in beta. Download it, then get in touch for a licence: it's only needed because beta builds expire.