CueSync vs ProDJLink
The closest thing to a direct comparison we have. Both join PRO DJ LINK and turn the decks into something the rest of the rig can follow. ProDJLink sends a timecode; your console still needs a timeline programmed against it, per track. CueSync sends the cue. If your desk is already timecoded and you just need position on the wire, ProDJLink does that well: on Windows and on Intel Macs, where CueSync does not run at all; and for a week at a time if that is all you need.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
CueSync
- 1.0Connect
- 2.0Cue
- 3.0Fire
- 4.0Coordinate
- 5.0Recover
ProDJLink
- 1.0Connect
- 2.0Cue
- 3.0Fire
- 4.0Coordinate
- 5.0Recover
Where CueSync is different
A Clock Is Not a Cue
ProDJLink tells your console where the track is. Acting on that is still the console's job, which means somebody programmed a timeline against that track beforehand — for every track that might get played. CueSync fires the cue itself, from phrase boundaries, energy thresholds, hot cues and key, so an improvised set needs no per-track programming at all.
Console-Native, Not Only Timecode
CueSync speaks GrandMA2 Telnet, GrandMA3 TCP and UDP OSC, Avolites Titan, ETC Eos and ChamSys MagicQ in their own command vocabularies. It can take an executor or run a macro. ProDJLink's outputs are timecode, MIDI beat clock and Ableton Link — real and useful, but the desk has to be pre-programmed to mean anything by them.
The Clock Itself Is Not the Upsell
Relaying the CDJ playhead as LTC, MTC, Art-Net Timecode or TCNet ships in every CueSync edition, DJ included, at $30/mo or $899 once. On ProDJLink the timecode layers are the top tier at €64.95/mo or €1,989 once. If a clock on the wire is genuinely all you need, compare those two numbers before anything else on this page.
Where ProDJLink Wins
Windows and Intel Macs — CueSync is Apple Silicon (arm64) only, so for a large share of booths ProDJLink is the one that runs at all. It also handles six decks to our four, rents by the week for a single festival, controls the decks remotely, and keeps a track-history window we have no equivalent for. It is also the one with six decks actually proven on hardware — CueSync enumerates six now, but has never been run against more than four real players, and we would rather say so than let you find out at a festival. The timecode-layer gap has closed since this page was first written: CueSync now fans LTC to any number of audio devices and MTC to any number of MIDI ports, and each of its four legs carries its own frame compensation, so a rig running lighting on LTC and video on MTC with different latencies can trim each wire independently. It is on v2.0.14; we shipped v1.0 in May 2026.
Common Questions
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