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Set ​

The Set view is where you turn a rig into a show. Open it from the Set tab in the top toolbar, next to Wiring, Stage, Logic and Controllers.

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 Wiring / Stage views.
  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 Wiring view has a Recalled by songs toggle (default on). Switch it off and that card is ignored by capture and recall. The Set view'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 view: 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 view 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 Stage 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.