Ask a worship leader where this Sunday's set lives and you will get an honest answer that is slightly embarrassing: a WhatsApp message, a photo of a chord chart, a Spotify playlist, and a key that was changed on Thursday and told to four of the six people who needed to know.
It works, mostly. It also means the new bass player learns the wrong key, the sound desk finds out about the extra song at 10:50, and nobody can practise their own part without playing the whole recording and hoping.
Worship Studio is the part of Aurnet built for that team. Here is what is in it.
A song library that knows the details
Every song holds the things a team actually argues about: the key you do it in, the tempo, the chord chart, and now the form — Intro 4, Verse 1 16, Chorus 16, Chorus 16 — with bar counts. Set a tempo and the form gives you a rough length, which is how you find out on Wednesday that the set is nineteen minutes rather than at 11:04 on Sunday.
Chord charts transpose, so the person who reads in G and the person who reads in the actual key are looking at the same song rather than two different documents.
Stems, so a part can be practised alone
The single biggest thing you can do for a volunteer musician is let them hear their own part without everything else on top of it. Upload stems against a song and each person can practise theirs — the backing vocal line on its own, the keys pad on its own — rather than playing the album cut and guessing.
Rehearsal recordings go in the same place. Record Tuesday night, name it, and it is there for whoever could not make it.
Sets built from the rota, by whoever is leading
This is the piece that stops the studio being another silo. The rota already knows who is leading on the 21st. So the person leading on the 21st can build the set for the 21st — without the music director having to hand out a permission first, and without every set having to funnel through one person.
When a set is shared, the team gets told. Not a message that scrolls away — a set with a date on it, that the drummer can open on Saturday night and see their part in.
The practice side
A metronome with a count-in, tied to the song's own tempo, and practice minutes recorded per person. That last one is quieter than it sounds: a music director who can see that three of the six people on Sunday have not opened the set all week can have a kind conversation on Thursday rather than a frustrated one on Sunday.
What it costs
Worship Studio is £20 a month, or £200 a year. It is an add-on rather than a plan feature, which means two things worth knowing. It works on any plan — including Free, because a church plant with a three-piece band needs this as much as anyone. And it brings 10 GB of its own storage for stems and rehearsal recordings, on top of whatever your plan gives you, because audio is heavy and it should not eat the space you keep sermons in.
Cancel whenever you like. Your songs, setlists and files stay readable and exportable — you are not locked in by your own back catalogue.
Add it from Billing in your Aurnet dashboard, and the Worship entry appears in your team's nav the same day.