What's Inside CueSync Theatre & Production Editions?

Beyond the DJ Booth

CueSync DJ Edition launched to solve a specific problem: give professional DJs real-time, audio-reactive automation across 15 output protocols. That problem is solved.

But stage automation doesn't end at the DJ booth. Theatre productions, corporate events, hybrid festivals, and touring shows need capabilities that go far beyond beat-reactive lighting. That's what Theatre Edition and Production Edition are built for.

Here's what's inside — and why it matters.

Theatre Edition

Theatre Edition is designed for lighting designers, production managers, and technical directors who run scripted or semi-scripted shows. It drives the same fifteen output protocols as DJ Edition and adds four major systems. It does not include DJ Edition's PRO DJ LINK, AutoPilot or Track Prep — Production Edition has both sets.

CueStack — Unlimited Sequential Cues

CueStack is a GO-button cue list engine. Build unlimited cues, each with a trigger, a follow time and any combination of actions. Each cue can trigger any combination of CueSync's 15 output protocols — fire a GrandMA executor over OSC, send an OSC command to QLab, and trigger a Resolume composition, all from a single GO button — and drive a DMX scene over Art-Net/sACN DMX-over-IP (in addition to the 15). Chasing incoming timecode (LTC, MTC, Art-Net, TCNet) and firing cues against it is a separate Theatre Edition feature layered alongside the protocol outputs; generating LTC, MTC, Art-Net TC and TCNet is included in every edition.

CueStack supports:

• Unlimited cues, with groups that fire in sequence or all at once
• Auto-follow: a cue can start the next one after a delay, for hands-free sequences
• Triggers beyond GO: a cue can wait for a beat, a timecode frame, a MIDI note, an OSC message or a hotkey instead
• Manual override at any point without breaking the sequence

The Show Editor Timeline

The Show Editor is a multi-track timeline over your master audio. Each department gets its own lane and its own console target, cues sit on the timecode ruler, and Run Mode plays the show back in SHOW, DRY or REHEARSE+ mode — DRY walks the whole running order without a single output firing.

For corporate events with timed video playback, award shows with musical numbers, or theatrical scenes with precise lighting choreography, the timeline gives you frame-accurate automation without a separate show control system.

Timecode — Chase and Generate

Theatre Edition chases an incoming LTC, MTC, Art-Net or TCNet master and fires cues against it. Every edition generates timecode in four formats:

• SMPTE/LTC (Linear Timecode over audio)
• MTC (MIDI Timecode)
• Art-Net Timecode
• TCNet (Pioneer's network timecode)

Generate timecode to synchronize external systems, or chase incoming timecode to lock CueSync's automation to a master clock. Essential for multimedia productions where video, audio, lighting, and automation must stay in perfect sync.

Companion Crew Board

Scan a QR code and any iPad, phone or spare laptop backstage becomes a live window on the show. The crew board shows virtual cue lights, countdowns and STANDBY / GO calls for the stage manager and each department, and a monitor page gives FOH tech the connections, breakers and timecode at a glance. It is served from the show machine over venue Wi-Fi, with nothing to install.

Production Edition

Production Edition is for productions that need both workflows in one show file: large-scale festivals, touring shows and immersive installations. It includes everything in DJ and Theatre — AutoPilot and the Show Editor together — plus Predictive Preview, loudness-matched playback and CueSync Crowd. A solo licence drives live output from one machine at a time; for several stages or rooms, run one machine per stage on a shared timecode clock.

Predictive Preview

Predictive Preview shows you what AutoPilot is about to fire before it happens: a look-ahead strip on the Performance screen that shows what AutoPilot is about to fire, laid out on the beat ruler.

This is invaluable for:

• Rehearsals — Verify that your automation will respond correctly to specific musical moments
• Client previews — Show event planners and creative directors which cues are about to land on the next drop or phrase
• Fine-tuning — Adjust your AutoPilot profile and check what the plan will fire

Unlimited Venue Profiles

DJ Edition caps venue profiles at 3 and Theatre at 25; Production removes the cap entirely. Every room and stage keeps its own saved rig configuration — outputs, device roles, intent mappings and an output policy for the room's limits — so switching venues is one click during load-in instead of rebuilding the connections.

For touring productions and rental houses that set up and tear down in a different venue weekly, the profile library becomes the institutional memory of every room you have ever played.

Priority Support

Production includes priority support from the CueSync team. We publish a reply target of 24 hours for everyone and do not offer a contractual response time or a 24/7 desk, so if you need a committed response time for a particular show, ask us before you rely on one.

The Edition Ladder

Pick Your Edition

All three editions ship at v1.0. DJ for reactive music-first shows, Theatre for scripted timecoded productions, Production when one show contains both. Cues, venue profiles, CuePad and all 15 output protocols carry through every edition, so you never relearn the basics. The one thing that is not cumulative is the AutoPilot engine: it ships in DJ and Production, not Theatre, because a Theatre rig is driven by cues and timecode rather than by musical structure. If one show needs both engines, that is Production.

Download CueSync free to evaluate in read-only mode, then subscribe to the edition that matches your workflow.

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