Set panel, Songs & setlists

The Set panel is where you turn a rig into a show. Open it from the Set tab in the top toolbar, next to Back, Front, Logic and Devices.

A song is an instant snapshot of your rack's values: which cards are bypassed, plugin parameters, and mixer states (gain, pan, mute, solo, BPS). Recalling a song re-applies that snapshot in milliseconds, with a short glide on continuous parameters so nothing zips or clicks. Nothing is reloaded and no wiring changes; a song is values only.

A setlist puts songs in show order. Setlists may cross racks: when the next song was captured on a different rack, recalling it performs a normal rack switch first.

Songs are not racks

Racks separate structure (different plugins, different wiring, for example studio areas or completely different acts). Songs overlay values on top of a rack. If two songs need different plugins, they belong on different racks; the setlist handles the jump.

Capturing a song

1. Pick or create a setlist (left column).
2. Get the rig sounding right on the Back / Front panels.
3. Click ＋ New song from current state, name it, Capture.

The song stores the state of every recallable card at that moment. Tweak the rig and Re-capture from current state (song sidebar) to update it.

Keeping cards out of recall

Some cards are calibrated to the venue, not the song: the FOH channel mixer you trimmed at soundcheck should not jump back to rehearsal values. Every card's inspector on the Back panel has a Recalled by songs toggle (default on). Switch it off and that card is ignored by capture and recall. The Set panel's sidebar shows how many cards are currently exempt.

Recalling

• Song strip: while a setlist is active, a slim bar sits above the statusbar on every view: position (SET · 2/9), prev/next, song name, key / tempo from the sheet. Prev/next moves the cursor and applies the song; during a show, navigation is recall.
• Set panel: clicking a song in the setlist column only selects it (browsing is safe); the sidebar's Apply button recalls it.
• MIDI program change: program N recalls song N of the active setlist. Bind your foot controller's patch buttons and step through the set hands-free. Out-of-range programs are ignored.
• Remote: prev/next on the iPad recalls on the rig (below).

Drift

The strip watches the rig at 1 Hz. When live values differ from the active song's capture, it shows "live differs · re-capture"; click it to fold the current state back into the song. "In sync" means the rig matches the capture.

Lyrics & chords (ChordPro)

The centre editor holds the song's sheet in ChordPro format:

{title: Black}
{key: E}
{tempo: 106}

{comment: Verse 1}
[E]Sheets of empty [A]canvas

Supported: {title}, {artist}, {key}, {tempo}, {comment} (or {c}) for performance cues, section fences like {start_of_chorus}, and guitar-tab blocks between {start_of_tab} and {end_of_tab} (rendered monospaced so the strings line up). Unknown directives are kept visible as cues rather than dropped.

Paste any tab-site sheet

You rarely need to type ChordPro. Paste a plain "chords over lyrics" sheet (the format on Ultimate Guitar and every cifra site) into the editor and it converts automatically: chord lines become inline anchors at the right syllables, [Verse 1] headers become cues, chord-diagram legends become comments, TAB blocks get fenced.

Display mode

Display mode ⛶ (song sidebar) flips the Set panel into a stage view: lyrics large with chords above them, cues in accent colour, the next song teased in the header, and a bottom bar with big prev/next buttons (they recall, same as the strip), the set position, and exit display.

Songs on the remote

With Remote enabled, the iPad front panel shows the same song strip at the bottom, with a lyrics button that opens a full-screen ChordPro reader (chords above lyrics, tab blocks, next-song tease, giant prev/next). Navigation from the iPad recalls on the rig; the desktop, the hardware LEDs and every connected remote stay in step. The desktop statusbar pulses "modified remotely" when a remote drives the set.

Storage & compatibility

Songs and setlists live inside the project file (.swproj, schema v4). Files saved by 1.11.0 or newer cannot be opened by older versions of Stagewright. The show cursor (which setlist / song is up) is runtime state and is never written to the project.