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Shows

A Show is a private workspace for everything you build to perform with: your Performance grid, your bookmarks, and your MIDI mappings. Switching shows swaps the whole performance surface at once, so a club night and a wedding gig can each have their own setup without stepping on each other.

The Default Show

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Every install starts with one show, Default Show. Your presets, bookmarks, and sequencer sessions have lived here since before the Shows feature existed, so anything you built before still works the same way. Default Show cannot be renamed or deleted.

Creating a new show

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Give a new show a name and it starts empty. Nothing from Default Show or any other show carries over: no grid cells, no bookmark pads, no MIDI mappings. Build one show for a festival set and another for a private event, and nothing you set up in one bleeds into the other unless you build it there yourself.

Switching shows

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Activating a different show swaps several things over in one move:

  • The Performance grid, your saved looks (sequencer presets).
  • Each shader’s saved step sequencer session state.
  • Your bookmark pads.
  • MIDI-to-preset mappings.

Whatever you had cued up on the show you’re leaving stays as you left it, ready for the next time you activate it.

Duplicating a show

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Duplicating copies everything, the grid, sequencer sessions, bookmarks, and MIDI preset mappings, into a brand-new show (named after the original with “Copy” appended). Use it to branch off an existing set instead of rebuilding one from nothing.

Renaming and deleting

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Any show you create can be renamed or deleted. Default Show cannot be either. If you delete the show you are currently performing in, RENDERWAVE switches you back to Default Show first.

Bookmarks

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Bookmarks are an 8×5 grid of pads, matching the layout of an Akai APC40 mkII, that live inside each show. Every show gets its own separate bank of pads.

Each pad can be:

  • Assigned a saved look from that shader’s sequencer presets, then tapped to trigger it instantly.
  • Captured with a thumbnail so you can see what it looks like at a glance.
  • Bound to MIDI, using MIDI Learn to map a hardware note or CC to the pad. See MIDI mapping.
  • Colored, from a full launchpad-style palette, so your bank is easy to read at a glance.
  • Set to Flash (momentary, active only while held) or Toggle (stays on until pressed again) as its trigger mode.
  • Given Active Feedback, either a solid color or a blink at a chosen rate, while it is live.

Bookmarks are scoped to the show, so a pad bank you build for one show never turns up in another.

Next steps

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