Looking at Chataigne? Here is what CueSync does

What CueSync does

For the job: a show-control layer with the integrations built in.

• One cue, the whole rig

  One cue can hold a console command, a media-server command, a MIDI message and an audio clip, so a single press fires the whole moment. CueSync ships 15 output protocols — grandMA2 (Telnet), grandMA3 (TCP and UDP OSC), Avolites Titan, ETC Eos, ChamSys MagicQ, Resolume, disguise, VIOSO, Pixera, TouchDesigner, Unreal Engine 5, QLab (TCP and UDP), MIDI Show Control, Pangolin Beyond and Custom OSC — of which grandMA3, QLab, Resolume and Unreal Engine 5 (in-engine, on our own project) have been run against the real program or console, and the rest are built to each maker's published interface and have not yet been run against that equipment, so fire your cues on your own rig before a show.

  Editions: Every edition

• Any button can be GO

  An incoming MIDI note can fire the next cue in your stack. In Theatre and Production an OSC message can too, and a MIDI GO note can call a Theatre show, so a button box, a controller or another program can be your GO. OSC input ships switched off: set a listening port first.

  Editions: Every edition (OSC input: Theatre · Production)

• Reaching what has no integration

  Custom OSC sends the OSC messages you define to anything on the network that listens to OSC, and MIDI goes out through the system MIDI devices you pick, so a device CueSync has no named integration for can still be fired from a cue.

  Editions: Every edition

• The beat from the decks

  CueSync joins your PRO DJ LINK network as another player and reads the position, BPM, phase and tempo master your CDJs already share, so the tempo comes from the decks, with no DJ software in the chain. If the beats go quiet while a deck is playing, it says so instead of firing nothing. Of the Pioneer units, only the CDJ-3000 has been through a hardware session.

  Editions: DJ · Production

• Cues that wait for the music

  A cue can wait for a phrase change, an energy band, a fill or the DJ's hot cue press, and fire when the track gets there. Cues are checked in order, so the cue you expect next goes at the top of the stack. On your own files these cues use CueSync's analysis; on a Pioneer deck, phrase cues read the phrase map rekordbox wrote to the stick, which has not yet been checked on a CDJ-3000.

  Editions: DJ · Production

• Calling the show

  Run Mode shows the cue you are calling, its countdown, the running order behind it and timecode health on one operator screen. Each cue fires on timecode, on GO, as a Follow or as an Autocontinue, and DRY steps the running order through with nothing sent to the desk, the media server or the rig, CueSync's own timecode outputs included.

  Editions: Theatre · Production

• An output that drops is named

  When an output stops answering, CueSync keeps trying to reconnect, and once repeated attempts fail it raises an alert and marks the pads that use it. Before doors, Pre-Show Check names each output your cues target that will not answer, with the number of cues routed to it; on an output that sends without an answer, a pass means the command was sent.

  Editions: Every edition