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songs and Showcase
Showcase is Line 6’s live playback and automation engine, built into the Stadium. At its simplest it plays a backing track for you to play along with, from the transport buttons on the panel. At most, it runs your band’s entire set: tracks, click, and every sound change, on cue, with no footswitch pressed.
Tracks live on the microSD card, which ships fitted under the security panel on the rear. If Song View is empty, check the card first.
Audio tracks plus everything that should happen while they play.
A named point you can jump straight to: verse, chorus, the bridge you want to rehearse.
An event that fires at a set time: a preset change, a snapshot change, any Command Center message. A song can have two or hundreds.
A short recording attached to a preset, so you can hear what it should sound like before you play it.
A stopwatch and a metronome on the footswitches, for timing a set and counting one in.
Hold FS1 and FS7
Out of the box, Showcase is something you drive from the screen and the transport buttons. Holding FS1 and FS7 together cycles what the left-hand footswitch column does: bank, preset, snapshot, song, or marker up and down.
That gesture puts song and marker control under your feet. It is not printed anywhere on the chassis.
Holding MODE opens the full set of footswitch modes, including Transport: play, stop and skip on your feet instead of on the panel.
Build the flags at home
Automating a song is quick once you know the interface and slow the first time. Do the first one at a table, with the track playing, not at soundcheck with a room waiting.