How to Manage Gig Sets from Your Phone (Beating the 9-Project Limit Live)

The EP-40, EP-133 and EP-1320 each hold nine projects at a time. That’s fine for a short set, but play a longer night and nine isn’t enough. The fix is to keep your projects in a library on your phone and rotate them through the device’s nine slots as you go, no laptop required.

This is the live, on-the-go version of the off-device project library. Here it’s all happening on your phone at the venue.

Build your set at home

Before the gig, get your library in order in EP-PatchStudio. Save each project off the device into your local library, give it a name you’ll recognise on stage (“opener”, “encore”, not P03), and tag the ones you want for tonight so they’re grouped together. The library lives on your phone, so it’s with you wherever you play.

Rotate projects at the venue

With the EP connected to your phone over USB, your nine slots become a window onto a much bigger set:

Load the projects for your first stretch into the nine slots.
Play.
Between sets, restore the next batch from your library into the slots you’ve finished with.

Because the library is named and tagged, you’re pulling up the right project in seconds, in a dark room, on your phone, rather than squinting at P01 through P09 on the device.

To make this even quicker, save each stretch as a Project Set: a named, ordered loadout of up to nine projects that drops onto the device in one action. Instead of restoring the next batch project by project between sets, you load the whole Set in a single tap.

Don’t forget a backup

Rotating projects means restoring over what’s in the slots, so take a backup before you start. Then anything you tweak on stage can be saved back into the library when you get home, ready for next time.

Get started

EP-PatchStudio is free to download on iPhone, iPad, Android and desktop, with a Pro trial included. The Project Library and Project Sets are part of Pro.

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