Looking at MaestroDMX? Here is what CueSync does
CueSync is software on an Apple Silicon Mac. It plans each track from the music's own structure, fires cues on the console or media server that owns your fixtures, and steps back the moment you take over. This page is about CueSync only.
What CueSync does
For the job: hands-off lighting that follows the music.
Auto Pilot
Auto Pilot works out a fire plan when a track loads, shows every planned moment on the timeline before it happens, records why each moment fired, and steps back when you take over. With your own files queued, Rehearse set plays the set's beats against the rig that is connected and sends nothing, so you can read the plan before doors.
Editions: DJ · Production
Your own files, analysed on your Mac
Local Audio plays your audio files, and CueSync works out the beat grid, phrases, energy, key and loudness on your own machine, with nothing uploaded. Track Prep analyses a whole library in one run and can turn the analysis into suggested cues for you to review.
Editions: DJ · Production
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
A room's rig, saved
A venue profile saves a room's outputs and the role each one plays, so one show drives a big rig at one club and a modest one at the next. When CueSync recognises a room it suggests the profile; it never switches one on by itself.
Editions: Every edition
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
DMX over the network, in beta
Art-Net and sACN output sends DMX to a network node when a cue fires. The route CueSync is built for is a console it drives in the console's own protocol.
Editions: Every edition
Before you decide
What you need
- A Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 12 or later. CueSync does not run on an Intel Mac, and there is no Windows build.
- The DJ or Production edition for Auto Pilot, Local Audio and the decks.
- Something programmed for CueSync to trigger: a console, a media server or show-control software. CueSync drives the desk, and the desk owns the rig.
- An account. Without a subscription you can run the demo show and tour the app in read-only mode. Building and saving your own shows, and connecting real outputs, need a subscription.
When CueSync is not the right fit
- You want a box that runs the lights with no computer in the booth. CueSync is software, and it needs a Mac running it for the whole show.
- You want software to light fixtures directly, with no console in the rig. CueSync is built first to trigger a programmed console; its own DMX output is Art-Net and sACN, so fixtures connect through a network node.
- You need it on Windows or on an Intel Mac. There is no Windows build, and CueSync does not run on an Intel Mac.
Common Questions
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Last reviewed . This page describes CueSync only and makes no claim about any other product. If anything here about CueSync is out of date, tell us at contact@cuesync.live and we will correct it.
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