Could I commission someone to build this Song Selector?

Well, the standard setlist view shows all the songs down the left hand side and the song parts across the top, in multiple rows intended to be easy to map to a pedalboard configuration.

But part of the problem here is not leveraging GP’s paradigm. In the example you show, the pedalboard itself has to be configured with song names and (presumably) program changes for each bank.

In the GP world, there is no need to do that - you configure your pedalboard so that each button has a CC number and sends 127 when pressed and 0 when released. Then GP itself handles the interpretation.

In that approach, there are almost an infinite number of ways to configure the system depending on the desired approach and it’s simply not practical for us to create all of them. Most things can be done with a combination of OSC and/or GPScript and of course third-party extensions can be developed.

For example, I use an iPad with some scripts developed with Lemur that let me access setlists, songs and individual control over each song (see first set of images)

One of our users developed a really cool interface using TouchOSC and that can work on either an iPad, an Android device or within an application running on the same machine.

I use a GT Mastermind Pedal Board which was most certainly developed for guitarists but since it can be configured using real-time sysex messages, a reasonably simple GP Script running as either a gigscript or in the Global Rackspace makes it completely unnecessary to configure the pedalboard at all. Here’s an example of how I have it configured.

With just a little bit of programming in GP Script, one could make this automatically display multiple songs, song parts for the currently selected song and instead of the two buttons on the bottom right that I use for scrolling pages on a sheet music viewer, those could be used to tell GP to display the next set of songs in a setlist (for example). Now, the guitarist doesn’t even need to look at his/her laptop at all, making a “preset switcher” view completely unnecessary - everything is at his/her foot and/or on his/her iPad.

So the approach is far more open-ended than just hard-coding a single “preset switcher” view.

We see more and more guitarists working with GP - this facebook post just appeared a day or so ago as the most recent example. He’s using a Nectar Pacer.

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