Show Mode

A full-screen performance UI designed to be read under stage lighting and operated without looking at the screen.

The Layout

Song strip (top)

A horizontal row of small buttons, one per song in the active setlist. The current song is highlighted. Click any song to jump directly to it (fires section 0). On a tablet, this scrolls horizontally if your setlist is long.

Section tiles (main area)

Large tiles showing all sections for the currently active song. Each tile shows the section name and a colored badge for the assigned scene or preset. Tap / click a tile to activate that section — this fires the assigned scene (or preset), updates the MIDI gear, and marks that tile active.

The active section is highlighted with a colored border. A ✓ briefly appears on a tile after its scene fires.

Up next bar (below the grid)

Once you activate a section, a bar appears below the song grid showing the next song and its scene. This lets you glance at what's coming without scrolling the strip.

If the next song has a scene assigned, a Pre-arm button appears alongside it. Click Pre-arm (or press P) to fire that scene's CC values to your gear right now — without moving the strip cursor. Useful in the last chorus of a song when you want the reverb and delay already dialled in before you officially advance. When you eventually advance, the scene fires again (which is safe — idempotent CC sends).

Pre-arm is especially useful for digital reverbs and delays that take a moment to settle into a new program. Fire it during the song's outro, and the next sound is already there when you hit the first note.

Song info bar

Below the section tiles, the current song's BPM, key, and notes are shown as a quiet reference strip. BPM is shown large enough to read across a dark stage.

Teleprompter / Lyrics mode

Click the Lyrics button in the Show Mode header to switch the section tile area into a large-text teleprompter view. Instead of section tiles, you see:

Song name and current section name at the top
The section's lyrics or cue text, large and readable across a dark stage
"Up next: [section or next song]" at the bottom

Navigate exactly the same way (← → arrow keys, foot-controller PC triggers) — the teleprompter auto-follows. Add lyrics to each section in the Edit Song modal (the multi-line text area below each section row).

Teleprompter state (on/off) is remembered across sessions — handy for setups where the tablet is always in lyrics mode on stage and you only want the grid on the laptop at front-of-house.

Scenes in Show Mode

Each song (and each section within a song) can have a scene assigned to it from the Setlist editor. When you activate a section in Show Mode, the assigned scene fires automatically — no separate button press needed. Scenes can also be assigned a MIDI Program Change trigger number so inbound PC messages from a foot controller or looper advance Show Mode for you:

Hardware sends PC 5 → RigWork finds the scene with triggerPC = 5 → fires the scene AND moves the song strip cursor to that song/section
The strip auto-scrolls to keep the current song visible — useful when your foot controller, not your hands, is driving the show
If a scene isn't linked to any setlist song, the PC still fires the scene (just doesn't move the cursor)

Set a scene's trigger PC in the Presets tab → Scenes. Assign a scene to a song in the Setlist tab (inline dropdown next to each song), or per-section in the Edit song modal.

Scene-per-section is the most granular option: Verse → scene A (dry reverb), Chorus → scene B (huge wash), Bridge → scene C (shimmer). Each tile fires a completely different state of your whole MIDI rig.

The Conductor (click + MIDI clock)

The transport bar above the tiles turns RigWork into a programmable click track and MIDI clock source - a software version of a Boss DB-90 or a Disaster Area clock pedal, driving your whole rig.

Give each section a tempo (BPM), a time signature (beats per bar), and a bar count in the song editor. Then hit ▶ Play (or Space):

Audible click plays through your device speakers - accented downbeat, plain offbeats. Toggle with the Click checkbox.
24-PPQ MIDI clock streams to your selected MIDI output (Start on play, Stop on stop), so a drum machine, groovebox, or your drummer's click follows the tempo map. Enable the MIDI clock checkbox.
Auto-advance: a section with a bar count automatically moves to the next section after that many bars, firing its preset and switching tempo seamlessly. Leave the bar count blank to hold a section open (plays the click forever until you advance manually) - perfect for a free intro or an extended jam.
Loop song repeats the current song's tempo map for practice.

The big BPM readout and beat dots show the live tempo and pulse. Songs are crossed manually (→ to advance past the last section, or tap a section tile in the next song) so the band can breathe between numbers. The conductor keeps running at the last tempo until you advance.

MIDI clock carries no audio - it's "play along to a programmed click," not backing-track playback. Web MIDI does not work on iPad Safari, so run the clock from a computer or Android Chrome; the audible click works anywhere.

Live Sync (Bandleader)

Share a show across devices: one person is the Bandleader and everyone else follows over the internet (it uses the cloud, not your local network - any connection works, no port setup).

In Show Mode, tap ⛓ Be the Bandleader - you get a 4-character code and a shareable link.
Click Copy link to copy the full session URL (e.g. rigwork.gpdoom.com/?join=AB12). Send it via text or share the QR — the recipient clicks the link and joins automatically, no code entry needed.
Or have each player tap Join… and type the 4-character code manually.
When the Bandleader plays, advances sections, and changes tempo, every follower's click, transport, and their own presets follow along. Each follower has its own click toggle in the banner.

Two follow modes (picked automatically per follower):

Mirror - if a follower's song has no bar counts on its sections, the Bandleader drives its sections directly (it changes presets exactly when the Bandleader does), and its audio locks to the Bandleader's position.
Own timing - if a follower's song does have bar counts (its own tempo-map), it runs its own conductor at the Bandleader's tempo, so its presets fire at its own bar boundaries - different change points per player, one shared clock. The banner shows "· own timing." A player joining mid-song catches up to the right spot automatically.

For "own timing" to stay locked, both players program the same song length and tempos (just different preset/section divisions). The follower always runs at the Bandleader's broadcast tempo, so the two can't drift apart.

Live Sync is GP-to-GP over the cloud. Locking to outside gear (Ableton Link, OSC, hardware MIDI, timecode) is the job of the upcoming GP Bridge / LoopWork Hub.

Keyboard Navigation

Key	Action
`Space`	Play / stop the conductor (click + MIDI clock)
`→`	Advance to the next section (wraps to next song)
`←`	Go back to the previous section
`1`–`9`	Jump to song N, section 0
`P`	Pre-arm next song's scene (fire it to hardware without moving the strip)

Jumping sections with the arrow keys while the conductor is running retunes the click and clock to the new section on the next beat - the clock keeps flowing, no restart.

With a Bluetooth keyboard or a USB foot controller mapped to arrow keys, you can advance sections hands-free. Many guitarists tape a small BT keyboard to the floor near their pedalboard.

Fullscreen

Click ⛶ Fullscreen in the Show Mode header to go fullscreen. This hides the browser chrome and nav bar, giving you the maximum possible screen real estate for the tiles. Press Esc to exit.

On a tablet in landscape orientation with fullscreen active, RigWork looks and behaves like a dedicated hardware controller.

Panic

The ⊘ Panic button sends All Notes Off (CC 123, value 0) and All Sound Off (CC 121, value 0) on all 16 MIDI channels simultaneously. Use it if something gets stuck - a held note, a drone that won't stop, a frozen reverb tail.

Panic does not change your preset state. After hitting panic, the next section tap will re-fire the current preset and restore the correct tone.

Show Mode on Tablet

Rig is optimized for tablet use in Show Mode. A 10" or larger tablet in landscape gives you enough tile real estate to tap sections reliably mid-song. Recommended setup:

Mount the tablet on a mic stand arm or guitar stand clip at eye level
Use fullscreen mode to eliminate the browser UI
Install RigWork as a PWA (add to home screen) for a native feel and faster launch
Enable auto-brightness on the tablet so the screen adjusts for stage lighting

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