Presets

Named snapshots of your entire rig state - one tap fires CCs and PCs to every device at once.

What a Preset Does

A preset captures a named state for your whole rig. When you fire it, RigWork sends:

CC messages - every captured parameter value to each device, in channel order
Program Change messages - the assigned PC number to each device that has one

CCs go first. This means your pedals receive their parameter values before the program change tells them to recall a slot - so the state you set in RigWork arrives cleanly.

Creating a Preset

Go to the Presets tab and click + New Preset. Set:

Name - e.g. "Verse Clean", "Bridge Doom Wall", "Chorus Lead"
Color tag - one of six semantic colors (Clean / Ambient / Crunch / Lead / Synth / Special)
Per-device PC number - which program to recall on each device (or leave blank to skip that device)

Color Tags

Color	Intended use
Clean	Clean / no gain tones
Ambient	Reverb/delay-heavy atmospheres
Crunch	Light overdrive, rhythm tones
Lead	High-gain lead or solo tones
Synth	Synth-style, pitch effects, modulation-heavy
Special	Anything that doesn't fit the above

Color tags are purely organizational - they appear as colored pills on preset cards and in Show Mode section tiles. They don't affect what MIDI gets sent.

CC Values in a Preset

By default, a new preset only sends PC numbers. To also capture CC state:

Open the CC editor for a device (Gear tab → Edit CCs)
Dial in the sound you want
Click Capture → while the preset is active

The current slider values are stored in the preset for that device. When you fire the preset, those CC values will be sent before the PC.

CC values are stored per-device inside the preset. If you have 6 MIDI pedals and capture CC values for all of them, one preset fire sends up to 6 × N CC messages plus 6 PCs. This all happens in under a millisecond on a low-latency MIDI connection.

Firing a Preset

Click the Fire button on any preset card. This sends all CCs + PCs immediately. You can also fire presets from:

Show Mode - tap a section tile (fires the assigned preset)
Setlist - tap a song row to fire its preset
MIDI PC in - an incoming PC message on the trigger channel fires the matching preset automatically
Riffwork - playback crossing a tagged bar fires the preset (see Riffwork Bridge)

Editing and Deleting Presets

Click the pencil icon on a preset card to edit its name, color, and per-device PC assignments. Click the trash icon to delete - this also removes the preset from any songs or setlists that referenced it.

Incoming PC Trigger

RigWork can listen on a MIDI input and auto-fire a preset when it receives a Program Change on a configured channel. See MIDI → Trigger Channel for setup.

This lets Ableton or another sequencer send a single PC to RigWork, and RigWork handles distributing the CCs and PCs to all your individual pedals - one event in, full rig state out.

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