Your first setlist

A setlist in Loadout is an ordered list of songs (and breaks) for one specific gig. The stage view runs from a setlist. Audience requests attach to a setlist. The post-show summary scores a setlist.

Build one manually

1. Go to Setlists in the side nav → New setlist.
2. Give it a name (the gig name works — Saturday at The Press Box).
3. Hit Add songs. The library opens; tap to add each song to the list.
4. Drag rows to reorder. Drop a Set break between songs to mark intermissions.

[screenshot: setlist builder — drag handles, set break button]

Each row has a few per-gig overrides:

• Key override — different key for this gig only, doesn't touch the song's default key in the library.
• Notes — a one-liner that shows on the stage view ("first chorus a cappella," "extended outro").

Or let the AI draft it

If you've got a library with at least a handful of songs and you'd rather start from a draft:

1. New setlist → AI generate.
2. Describe the gig in plain English: "45-minute wedding cocktail set, starting mellow, building to mid-energy. No songs in flat keys."
3. Loadout drafts a list. Review it, swap songs, reorder.

The AI uses your library's existing tags, energy, key, and BPM data — the more those are filled in, the better its choices. See AI setlist generator for what kinds of prompts work well.

Tip: Generated lists are drafts, not commitments. You always review and edit before saving. The model doesn't push anything live.

Target duration

When you set a Target duration on the setlist (e.g., 60 minutes), Loadout shows the running total in the builder so you can see if you're over or under. The stage view's autoscroll also uses per-song duration to pace the chart — if a song has no duration set, it falls back to 3:30.

What's next

• Going live on stage — open this setlist on stage.
• The setlist builder, in depth — every override, every drag-handle trick.
• AI setlist generator — prompts that work, prompts that don't.