Year in Review | 2022
It’s been an exciting year at MultiTracks.com!
We launched The Church Streaming License, strengthened Playback’s integration with ProPresenter and Planning Center, rebranded our podcast to Lead Worship Well with the launch of Season 4, and more.
Let’s take a look back and celebrate some of the biggest moments of the year.
Lyric Import with ProPresenter
At the top of the year, we announced the ability of importing accurate lyric slides directly from ProPresenter.
You can now customize your slides and choose your desired key to view chords and lyrics on your stage display screen.
You can search the MultiTracks.com catalog of over 18,000 songs, all built to perfectly match the track. Select 1, 2, or 4 lines per slide, font style, and song key. Customize filters to fit your setting with options for theme, aspect ratio, and more.
History of Gospel Music
We celebrated the past, present and future of Gospel Music.
For Black History Month this year, we shared a series on YouTube that highlighted the origins of gospel and its evolution over time. We also heard from artists like Tye Tribbett and DOE on the key players that have influenced their music and ministry!
Planning Center Import to Playback
Why build the same setlist twice?
Plans created in Planning Center can now be imported as Setlists directly in Playback (or the website)! All songs in your plan linked to popular recordings in the MultiTracks.com song catalog will be automatically added as a brand new MultiTracks.com setlist that stays linked to the imported plan. Update your plan in Planning Center, and your updates will be pushed to Playback as well.
Easter Devotional Series
We shared devotionals from some of our artist partners for Holy Week!
The Belonging Co, Passion, Bethel and more shared powerful Easter messages for the Triumphal Entry, The Last Supper, the Prayer in the Garden, the Crucifixion, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday.
“While we were enemies and sinners, Christ died for us. And we will never find a love that is deeper than that.”
Demo Setlist in Playback
You can now experience all of Playback and ChartBuilder for free.
We created a Demo Setlist so you can experience everything Playback and ChartBuilder have to offer. Explore Song Pads, Production Cues, custom arrangements and more in Playback. Customize your charts in ChartBuilder, play along to your instrument’s part in RehearsalMix, and let Playback control your charts with Playback Sync.
Download Playback and ChartBuilder to experience the full power of the Connected Stage with Demo Setlist!
Mental Health Awareness Month
We shared resources for Mental Health Awareness Month.
In an effort to shed light on this important topic, and to champion the effort of destigmatizing it in the Church, we gathered a list of songs that honor, explore and attempt to seek refuge from anxiety, doubt, and depression.
We also heard messages on Mental Health Awareness from Brandon Lake, Anna Golden, Temitope and Christine D’Clario and highlighted an amazing resource for churches called Mental Health Sunday.
The Church Streaming License
We launched the Church Streaming License this year: the first lyric and streaming license for the Church that reports for you.
The Church Streaming License is a complete solution for churches of all sizes. Simply by using Setlists in our ecosystem, your song activity is reported for you in real time, and now you can import setlists directly from Planning Center. CSL allows you to say goodbye to exporting spreadsheets so that your time is maximized and song reporting is more accurate than ever.
With the Church Streaming License, you can store and print lyrics, and display them in services you record, stream, or share online. You can create and distribute your song arrangements, perform songs in your streams, including original master recordings and all tracks products from MultiTracks.com.
Summer of Sounds podcast series
We passed the podcast mic over to Mike Graff of Coresound this summer!
Mike hosted a limited series centered on sound design and production. Check out conversations with Jim Daneker, Peter James, Luke Anderson and more!
SMPTE
We announced Playback’s ability to send SMPTE timecode to control your lights, lyrics, videos, and anything that receives SMPTE to keep your productions in perfect sync.
You can now place SMPTE anywhere on the Playback timeline, and customize where in the timecode you’d like it to start. Customize your frame rate for your setting, and even navigate to any song or song section and all connected production elements will follow.
Lead Worship Well podcast // Season 4
We rebranded The Worship & Technology Podcast to Lead Worship Well and launched Season 4.
We launched this very platform last year to create a dedicated space for our artist partners to share insights in order to equip you and your teams practically + pastorally. The goal and hope of these conversations has always been to inspire and equip you to lead worship well, so we decided to have our show now be under this brand and officially a part of this mission!
We shared: The Power of Discipling Kids in Worship with Yancy, Healing from Grief & Trauma with Christine D’Clario, Worship Leading & The Enneagram with Jackie Brewster, and When Faith Meets Therapy with Anthony Evans. More to come in the new year!
ChartBuilder Annotations
Write now!
We announced annotations in ChartBuilder! With customizable tools for writing, highlighting, typing, and erasing, you can now create notes for anything you want. Save multiple annotations for different scenarios and recall them at any time on any ChartBuilder device.
Available on iOS or Android.
RehearsalMix Arrangements
Practice along with your exact song arrangement.
RehearsalMix in ChartBuilder now reflects your custom song arrangements. Make changes to your song order in Playback and RehearsalMix will adjust so you and your team can practice along to their exact part and chart, and can be fully prepared before even arriving at rehearsal. Available now with a RehearsalMix subscription and ChartBuilder access!
StageReady 3
StageReady received its biggest update yet.
This new version of StageReady is a complete solution for live worship keyboard players featuring new tools and a custom-sampled sound library which come together in a template built for pro-use with the volunteer in mind.
The latest release contains 130 brand new custom-sampled pianos, synths and much more, as well as updated performance tools and a choice of 17 new ambient pads. We’ve custom-sampled over 130 instruments to bring you our most impressive and dynamic collection yet. Cinematic pads, soaring leads and exclusive new pianos are now at your fingertips.
Best of all, this new method allows you to access the full MainStage Sound Library and bring this huge collection of sounds into your Patches.
Advent Devotional Series
We were so blessed by these messages of Hope, Love, Joy and Peace this Advent Season!
Red Rocks Worship, Evan Craft, Christy Nockels and more shared with us a passage that speaks to them in the days leading up to Christmas. They also paired a song they’ve written with their devotional, which are all available on the MultiTracks.com platform.
MultiTracks Sessions
We captured an exclusive ELEVATION RHYTHM session for the Christmas season!
We also hosted Brooke Ligertwood, Mack Brock, Pat Barrett, Elevation Worship, Gateway Worship (English + Español), Israel & New Breed and more. We have a lot more sessions to share in the new year so stay tuned and subscribe to our channel!
This year would not have been possible without you. Thank you for being a part of what we do! It’s our joy to create resources that equip you as you serve the global Church. Here’s to 2023!
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