devices · Helix Stadium Floor · learn · 09 of 10 · 7 min

backing tracks and automation

Showcase runs your tracks and changes your sounds on cue. No other guitar modeler does this.

the one thing

Hold FS1 and FS7 to get song and marker navigation onto your footswitches. Without them, you run Showcase from the screen.

the pieces

A song is audio tracks plus everything that should happen while they play. Markers are named points you can jump to. Flags are events that fire at a set time: a preset change, a snapshot change, anything Command Center can send.

Tracks live on the microSD card, which ships fitted under the security panel on the rear. If Song View is empty, look there first.

getting it onto your feet

Holding FS1 and FS7 together cycles what the left-hand column does: bank, preset, snapshot, song, or marker up and down. Holding MODE reveals the full set of footswitch modes, including Transport.

Neither gesture is printed on the chassis. Without them, Showcase plays tracks but you cannot steer it from your feet.

do the first one at a table

Automating a song is quick once you know the interface and slow the first time. Build it at home with the track playing, not at soundcheck with a room waiting.