Stage plots / layouts builder

Problem statement

Right now, Sonority helps track instruments, tours, and tech details, but it does not give musicians and touring crews a native way to design clear, reusable stage layouts tied directly to their actual gear. Most bands and tour managers fall back to ad‑hoc tools (PowerPoint, Canva, PDFs, hand sketches, scattered files) that live outside their main inventory and tour workflow. This creates inconsistent stage plots from venue to venue, makes it easy for details to go out of date as rigs change, and forces engineers and backline to interpret messy or incomplete information on the day of the show.

Because those plots are disconnected from the inventory, any change in instruments, players, or setups has to be manually reflected in multiple files, increasing the risk of errors, duplicated work, and miscommunication between artists, crew, and venues. For touring acts juggling multiple configurations (fly dates vs full production, festival stages vs club shows), maintaining separate static plots becomes especially painful and error‑prone.

Proposed feature

Add a visual stage plots / layouts builder inside Sonority that lets users design, save, and adjust stage layouts using instruments and rigs already stored in their inventory. Users would drag and drop players, mics, amps, pedalboards, keys, drum risers, wedges/IEM packs, stands, and power drops onto a grid‑based canvas, with labels and metadata auto‑filled from their existing Sonority items (instrument name, player, notes).

Each stage plot would be linked to a tour, date/venue, or configuration (for example “Full band”, “Fly rig”, “Festival set”), so users can quickly clone and tweak layouts instead of rebuilding from scratch. The builder would include snap‑to‑grid and alignment tools, plus templates for common setups such as solo acoustic, 3‑piece, 5‑piece, and festival stage, to speed up creation. Users could export plots as PDF or PNG, with optional tech notes like input lists, patch notes, and power requirements, ready to send to venues, engineers, and backline.

What this feature would solve

- Centralises stage plots in the same place as instrument inventory, tour prep, and documentation, reducing duplicated work and keeping everything in sync when gear changes.

- Improves clarity for venues, FOH and monitor engineers, and backline by producing clean, consistent, standardised layouts per show or tour.

- Speeds up tour preparation, especially for acts with multiple configurations, by allowing users to clone, version, and adjust existing plots instead of re‑creating them in separate tools.

- Strengthens Sonority as a single source of truth for gear lists, weights, maintenance status, and stage layouts inside the same tour pack export.