Wider tooling
Rehearse, Produce, Stage, Lighting, Galaxy. Speculative directions for the platform — named so the ecosystem trajectory is visible, built only if Pit and Sheets earn an audience that wants more. See the ecosystem roadmap →
Stardust
Open-source, cross-platform live-performance tools for musical theatre — reliable enough to run a show.
The ecosystem
Stardust Pit → A virtual instrument host built for keyboardists running musical theatre shows. Cross-platform alternative to MainStage and Gig Performer. In active development.
Stardust Sheets → A production-aware score and script library with semantic overlays on PDFs. A forScore alternative built for production workflows. Planned post-Pit v1.
Why this exists
A musician’s career depends on the patch loading mid-show. The dominant tool for the job is closed-source, macOS-only, and has well-known reliability gaps that any working keyboardist has stories about.
Stardust is the open-source response — built on Rust + Tauri for cross-platform support, with out-of-process plugin sandboxing so a crashing plugin doesn’t take down the host. Musical theatre vocabulary (Shows, Songs, Patches, Sounds) is first-class, not bolted on. Reliability isn’t a feature; it’s the point.