ShowPlayer Pro Documentation

Most of ShowPlayer Pro is meant to be discovered as you use it. If you're new, the Guided Feature Demo on the Add Show screen is the fastest start — it walks you through playback, scenes, and SFX in a real show.

These articles are here for when you want a longer answer: how features fit together, what specific cues do, the workflow that runs through rehearsal and performance. Skim the contents below, jump to anything that catches your eye, or read straight through.

Tap any item with a dark icon to read the article — the rest are coming.

Loading Shows

≡Loading an existing show from the Audiohost Show Server
≡Loading an existing show from your device
≡Checking for show updates
▶Creating a new show(see §9)

Playback — UI & Events

≡Scenes and Songs
≡Player, GO states
≡Playlist
≡Event List
- Events are listed in sections by type
- Tap any event row to seek to that location and play
≡Mic Switchboard
- Show/Hide (iPhone only)
- Make quick changes here live
- Limitation: does not reflect changes made on the board directly

Event Types

≡Locator cues
- First locator cue is the song's starting point — can be moved to start the song anywhere
- Other locator cues let you jump to specific points in the song for rehearsal pickups
≡Conductor cues — Skip, Hold, Cut, Vamp, Escape Song, Attacca
- Have startTime and endTime
- Used to change timeline flow and follow performers
≡MIDI events (mic toggles, audio overlays, OSC triggers)
- Mic toggles set the whole board state at once
- Snippet recall (X32 / M32)
- Audio overlays (in songs), standalone audio (in scenes)
- Auto-cue any MIDI event in scenes for external (OSC) triggers
≡Setting mic states
- Author the board snapshot for each mic-event
- Highlighted = open, dim = muted

Adding/Removing a Scene or Song

≡Add a new scene to add Mic mute events or sound effects between existing songs
≡Add a new song
- When adding a new item to the playlist, you can select an audio file to create a song instead of a scene
- Audio files (timeline) cannot be added to scenes later
- You can add sound effects to scenes by creating events in a scene
≡Swipe right on a song or scene in the Playlist to delete it (no Undo!)

Adding and Editing Events

≡Adding Events
- Event List → tap + icon
- Choose event type
- Set the event specific parameters
- Save
≡Editing Events
- Event List → swipe left on an event (or long-tap and select Edit)
- Change any event parameters
- Save
≡Deleting and disabling events
- Some event types can be disabled (Cut, Vamp)
- The Midi portion of a MidiEvent can be suppressed
- Swipe right on any event or long-tap and select Delete (no Undo!)
≡Copy/Paste Events
- Long-tap on an event and select Copy Event
- Long-tap on an event and select Paste after…
- Paste is available on the + icon if the event list is empty
≡Reorder events
- Each event in scenes has a drag handle on the right side — long-tap and drag to the desired position
- Events in songs (with timeline) are ordered automatically by start time

Waveform Editor

≡Set the start and end points of a song
≡Place events precisely on the audio timeline
- Precise start and end of any event
- Precise Cut and Vamp editing
≡Select the audio portion for a SFX

Mic Map

≡Working with an existing Mic Map
- Reorder the mic map by dragging channels up or down — all MidiEvents will automatically update after Save
- Rename roles (do not use renaming to change channel order — existing MidiEvents will not follow!)
- Remap channels: combine roles to one mic, redirect channels, or disable a channel by setting remap to 0
- Send channel names to the scribble strip (X32/M32)
≡Add channels to an existing Mic Map
- Tap the + icon at the top right of the mic map to add a channel
- A new channel will be appended to the existing list
- Note that the new channel will default to muted on all existing MidiEvents
≡Creating a Mic Map
- If a show does not have a mic map, tap + at the top right to generate a new one
- Set the number of channels (1–32)
- Default channel names will be numbers — rename to your preference

Settings, Show Information, and Connections

Creating a New Show

Connecting to Outboard Gear

≡Connecting an X32 / M32 via direct USB
- USB-C iPad or Mac: direct USB-C to USB-B cable
- Lightning iPad: Apple Camera Adapter + USB-A to USB-B cable
- Allen & Heath mixers (Qu, SQ, Avantis, dLive) work the same way
≡Connecting an X32 / M32 via powered USB hub
- For older iPads or multi-device chains where direct USB underpowers
- Camera Adapter with passthrough power keeps the iPad charged
≡Connecting a DIN MIDI mixer via an audio / MIDI interface
- Focusrite Scarlett, M-Audio M-Track, MOTU, RME, etc.
- Bridges 5-pin DIN MIDI to USB for the iPad / Mac

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