What a Working DJ Does With CueSync, Start to Finish
What a working DJ does with CueSync: prep a track once, add per-track cues, let AutoPilot follow the set, send the CDJ clock out as timecode.
CueSync TeamStage Automation Engineers
Before the Gig: Prep a Track Once
Load a track in Track Prep and CueSync analyses it — tempo, beat grid, phrases, energy — from rekordbox's phrase data or from your own file. Then attach the cues that belong to that track: a hot-cue moment, a drop, a position you want a look to land on. The analysis and the cues stay with the track, so the second time it is in a set there is nothing left to do.
You do not have to do this for every track. It is for the ones where you want a moment pinned in place.
During the Set: AutoPilot Follows the Decks
With Pioneer CDJs, CueSync joins PRO DJ LINK as a virtual CDJ and reads beat phase, BPM, hot cues and phrase data straight from the decks. AutoPilot uses the structure of what is playing to decide when your authored looks should fire, so a set that changes on the night needs no timeline rebuilt around it. If you play your own files instead, Local Audio analyses them the same way.
When you want to take over, the CuePad grid fires looks by hand, and the ProDeck view keeps the master deck, the BPM, the current and next phrase and AutoPilot's next event in front of you.
The CDJ Clock Out as Timecode
On the DJ and Production editions CueSync can relay the CDJ playhead as timecode — LTC, MTC, Art-Net Timecode or TCNet — so a console or a video system can follow the deck without anyone building a timeline for it.
Driving the Console and the Media Server
The same cues fire your lighting console and your media server in their own command vocabularies — grandMA2/3, Avolites Titan and ETC Eos on the lighting side; Resolume, disguise and TouchDesigner on the video side — from one beat source, so lighting and video land on the same beat.
The Residency: One Venue Profile Per Room
A residency is the same room, week after week. A venue profile holds the outputs, the device roles, the intent mappings and the room's limits, so the second night in a room starts where the first one ended.
CueSync doesn't replace a lighting designer's creativity. It covers the gigs — residencies, corporate events, mobile sets — where the lights still have to follow the music and no dedicated operator is on the job.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. With Pioneer CDJs, CueSync reads beat phase, BPM and track identity live over PRO DJ LINK, so an improvised set needs no per-track prep. Track Prep is for the tracks where you want cues pinned to specific moments — analyse a track once and the result is kept.
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