Advanced Song Chooser extension

The Advanced Song Chooser extension for Deskew Technologies Gig Performer is intended to offer the performer a focused touchscreen-friendly user interface for selecting and queuing songs within Gig Performer.

The layout and design are specifically created to make the information as legible as possible in a gig situation whether that be on a dimly lit stage or a bright daylight open-air stage in festival situations.

The Advanced Song Chooser window is split into different zones, the main toolbar at the top containing the clock, Search field, Config icon and Close icon.

The Status bar is just below that indicating the currently selected song and listing any queued songs.

Below that covering most of the window is the scrollable song list itself with a wide touchscreen friendly vertical scrollbar on the right hand side. This scrollbar can scroll from top to bottom very quickly or you can swipe the main song text area to scroll by smaller amounts. The “play” buttons to the left select each song and the “+” buttons to the right add those songs to the queue in the Status bar. 

 Searching for songs

In the top toolbar is a Search box. If you tap into it, your OS should pop-up an onscreen QWERTY keyboard if you do not have a hardware keyboard attached and you are using a touch-screen.

As you type into the box, the song list is filtered dynamically in real time to show just the items where the song name or artist name match the entered text.

You can now select, bookmark or queue one of the filtered songs and then tap the “Clear” button to return to the standard list of songs. If you selected a song, then when returning to the standard list, the song you selected will be scrolled into view.

 Config

From here you can change the following settings:

Setlists

Choose any of your currently loaded setlists without needing to leave the Advanced Song Chooser and change your setlist within Gig Performer.

Time Format

Choose the time format for the clock in the top left hand corner of the Advanced Song Chooser window.

Next Pedal Priority

Choose the order in which queued, highlighted and normal set list songs are selected as you click the “Next Song” button widget.

Hint Text Source

Choose which song attributes from Gig Performer are used to populate the hints text on each song in the Advanced Song Chooser Window. More options will be added in future releases.

Options

From here you can change the following settings:

Show artist names

Hide and show the artist name on each song in the Advanced Song Chooser window.

Show chord hints

Hide and show the chord hints on each song in the Advanced Song Chooser window.

Show queue buttons

Hide and show the enqueue buttons on each song in the Advanced Song Chooser window.

Wrap song item text

Choose whether the text of each song in the Advanced Song Chooser window wraps to the next line or is hidden when there is not enough room to show all the text on a single line.

Colours

Click on each of the coloured squares to choose a new colour from a pop-up colour-picker to change the colour of the Song name, Artist name and Chord hints text items plus the overall Background colour of each song in the Advanced Song Chooser window.

The example in the lower section of this menu shows a preview of the colour changes to all songs, the currently active song and the currently bookmarked song as you tweak each colour selection. 

About

This page simply displays version and library credits for this extension.

Here you will also find information on the minimum version of Gig Performer required for this extension as well as contact information to send us any queries.