Document every cable in your rig. Wire pedals, amps, snakes, and patch panels together — then print the signal chain or export the Show Bible with full wiring notes.
The Patch tab shows every audio and control cable in your rig as a table. Each row is one cable — source device + jack → destination device + jack. Cables here are the same connections drawn as lines on the Rig Layout canvas. Edit in either place; they share the same data.
Use the Add cable form at the top of the Patch tab:
Or use the Rig Layout canvas: click Wire in the layout header, then tap two blocks to connect them. Tapping an existing line removes it.
| Type | Shown as | When to use |
|---|---|---|
| Mono audio | Solid line | Standard guitar/instrument cable |
| Stereo audio | Thick line | Stereo pedal pair (check ⇌ on the cable) |
| Control | Dashed green line | MIDI cable, expression pedal, foot controller |
The signal type is auto-detected from the device kind. A MIDI connection between a controller and a pedal is automatically tagged as "control."
Click Visual next to the cable count to switch to a rack-style canvas. Each gear item shows as a strip with jack circles. Connected jacks are highlighted; bezier cables are drawn between them so you can see the signal flow spatially. This view is read-only — to add or remove cables, switch back to the table.
For patch panels, each point row also shows a small ↘ (half) or ↘↘ (full) normal indicator between the label and the OUT jack. It's green when the connection is active; greyed out and struck through when a patched cable is breaking it — same logic as the Normals section below, at a glance.
A patch panel (patchbay) can have normaled connections — passive default connections between each point's OUT and IN jack that are active when nothing is patched. Set this per-device in Gear → Edit Device → Default normaling.
| Mode | Default connection | What breaks it |
|---|---|---|
| Through (none) | No default — must patch explicitly | — |
| ↘ Half-normal | OUT → IN passively | Patching the BOTTOM (IN) jack overrides. Patching the TOP (OUT) "mults" the signal — it continues to IN too. |
| ↘↘ Full-normal | OUT → IN passively | Patching either jack breaks the default connection. |
You can also set a per-point override in Gear → Edit Device → point labels — give a point a different mode than the panel default. Common for a panel where most points are half-normaled except a few dedicated thru points.
The Normals section at the bottom of the Patch tab shows each patch panel's normaled connections with their live status:
Points without labels are summarized as a count ("+ 24 unlabeled pts (↘ Half) — 22 active"). Label a point in Gear → Edit Device to see it individually.
The Rig Layout tab shows all your gear as draggable blocks on a canvas. Drag to rearrange — left to right is roughly signal flow order (guitar → pedals → amp). The same cables from the Patch tab are drawn as lines with arrowheads.
In the layout canvas: