Built for the desk, not the office.
Every scene on the console can carry a note. When a scene is recalled, the top card shows its note and the one beneath shows what follows in tonight's running order. No tapping, no scrolling, no looking away from the desk.
Now and next
Two cards, stacked or side by side, in a text size you can read from across the desk. Both move the instant the console recalls.
Running orders
Build a running order per night by tapping scenes in order, or press Record and recall them on the console as you go. Encores that revisit a scene still know what follows.
Notes that stay put
A note belongs to a scene in a show and follows it through every running order. A second note can be added for one night only.
Gig Mode
One tap locks the show and running order, puts the settings away and leaves the cards following the console. Leaving is a deliberate slide, not a stray touch.
Lock screen
Black the screen out between sets so a knock changes nothing. Two fingerprints together bring it back.
Backups in Files
Every show is mirrored as a file in the Files app. Press Backup before doors, export to share, import to restore. Nothing leaves the iPad unless you send it.
Read-only, and nothing to set up on the desk.
Scene Notes talks Yamaha's own remote control protocol over the network, the same one Yamaha's software uses. It subscribes to scene recalls and reads scene names and the console's own comments. It never sends a recall or changes a parameter.
The iPad opens the connection to the console, so the console never needs to know the iPad exists. Unplug mid-show and the desk does not care. Lose the network and the app reconnects on its own when it comes back.
You will need
- An iPad on iPadOS 18 or later.
- A Yamaha Rivage PM console (PM3, PM5, PM7, PM10) with a DSP engine.
- A network path from the iPad to the engine's NETWORK [PC] port, wired or over your own Wi-Fi.
- The console's DSP ENGINE IP with its ENABLE switch on, under SETUP, NETWORK, FOR MIXER CONTROL.
A step-by-step guide with a port check is built into the app under Settings. The same guide is on the support page.
Two weeks free, then a subscription.
Scene Notes is a subscription. Start the free trial from the app and use everything, console link included, for two weeks. Cancel before it ends and nothing is charged; otherwise your plan carries on. The demo show built into the app lets you look around before you even reach a desk.
Yearly
£19.99 a year
Two weeks free, then billed yearly. Cancel any time.
Monthly
£2.99 a month
Two weeks free, then billed monthly. Good for a one-off tour.
Prices are set in the App Store and shown in your local currency there. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and are managed under Subscriptions in the iPad's Settings. See the terms of use.
Made by an engineer who mixes on one.
Scene Notes was written for our own shows on Rivage PM desks and has been through full show days on a real console, not only the simulator. If something does not work on your desk, we want to hear about it.