CueSync User Manual
Everything from first launch to running a multi-hour show — with real screenshots of the shipping app, honest notes on preview features, and full trigger, action, and protocol references.
I'm a DJ
Sync your rig to Pioneer gear and let the music drive the show.
I run theatre or show cues
Build a cue list, drive it with timecode or a GO button.
Orientation
Install CueSync and take a tour of every region of the interface.
Installation
Download, install, and activate CueSync before your first show. System requirements CueSync is a self-contained app.
The Interface
CueSync has one shell that stays constant across every screen. Learn it once and you know where everything lives.
Preparing the Show Machine
CueSync's beat-aligned timing assumes it gets the CPU when it asks for it.
How CueSync Works
CueSync listens for something (a beat, a timecode frame, a MIDI note, your GO), decides a cue is due, and sends commands to the gear that runs the show.
Safety and Responsibility
This page says plainly what CueSync is not, what stays with you, and what happens to the rig when something goes wrong, so that you decide the interlocks…
Create
Build shows — the cue stack, cue pads, looks and scenes, track prep, library, and timeline.
Cue Pads
What it's for — Cue Pads give you a grid of instant-trigger buttons you play by hand — clicking, pressing keyboard keys, or sending MIDI from a controller.
Cues, Pads or Scenes?
CueSync gives you three things to build a show from: cues that fire on a trigger, Cue Pads you play by hand, and Looks in the Palette, which are named…
Cues
The Cues screen is the master list of every cue in your show. Each cue pairs a trigger (what fires it) with one or more actions (what it does).
Generate Show
DJWhat it's for — Point CueSync at a prepared track and it drafts a whole cue stack for you: it reads the track's phrase structure and energy, and for each…
Intents and Actions
CueSync has two ways to say what a cue does. An action is one exact command for one kind of gear.
Library
DJThe Library is Track Prep's browse level: a searchable, filterable view of all your tracks across every connected source.
Palette
What it's for: the Palette holds every Look your show fires. A look is a named stage state: a console cue, a media clip, a QLab cue, a laser cue, a…
Show Editor
TheatreThe Show Editor is where you build and arrange your Theatre show: add cues, sequence them on a timeline, set how each cue fires (timecode, manual GO, or…
Track Prep
DJTrack Prep is where you analyse tracks, edit beat grids, place hot cues, and review cue suggestions before using a track in a live set.
Track Program
DJThe Track Program visualises your Auto Pilot fire plan against the loaded track's structure.
Control
Run shows — Home, Auto Pilot, Run Mode, local audio, and the live performance dashboard.
Auto Pilot
DJAuto Pilot watches your set's phrase structure in real time and fires cues automatically at structural moments (drops, builds, choruses, phrase endings)…
Home
Home is your command deck before and between sets. It surfaces everything you need to start or resume a show: pre-show readiness gaps, the next cue ready…
Local Audio
DJLocal Audio lets CueSync play audio files directly — analysing each file the way your Pioneer tracks are analysed, so cue triggers and Auto Pilot fire on…
Multi-Monitor Workspaces
What it's for — Pop any CueSync surface out into its own window and put it where the show needs it: Cue Pads on a booth touchscreen, the big Timecode…
Performance
DJPerformance is the live DJ dashboard, designed to be read from two metres away.
Run Mode
TheatreRun Mode is the focus-mode console for running a Theatre show live. It shows the most important information a stage manager or operator needs at a…
Connect
Wire up gear and people — network devices, Pioneer decks, output protocols, timecode, crew devices, cloud show prep, and diagnostics.
Art-Net and sACN (DMX over IP)
What it's for — Art-Net and sACN (also called E1.31) carry DMX levels over an Ethernet network.
Show Companion
All paidWhat it's for — Companion turns every iPad, phone, and spare laptop backstage into a live window on your show, with nothing to install.
Crowd (Audience Phones)
ProductionWhat it's for — Crowd turns the audience's own phones into a light source your show controls.
Devices
Devices is your at-a-glance connection dashboard. It shows every Pioneer CDJ or XDJ on your PRO DJ LINK network alongside your protocol outputs and MIDI…
Diagnostics
Diagnostics is the runtime health dashboard for your CueSync installation.
disguise
What it's for — CueSync controls a disguise d3, vx or gx server over OSC.
ETC Eos, ChamSys MagicQ and Avolites Titan
What it's for — CueSync fires cues, playbacks, submasters and faders on an ETC Eos family console, a ChamSys MagicQ console or an Avolites Titan console…
Export Cue Sheet
The paperwork a show runs on: the operator's cue list, the stage manager's calling script, the director's running order, and a sheet for each department.
GrandMA3 Session Sync
TheatreSession Sync moves your Theatre cue list between CueSync and a grandMA3 console without re-programming.
GrandMA2
All paidCueSync drives a grandMA2 console over its Telnet command line: cue GOs, executor control, macros, faders, fixture levels, blackout and freeze, plus…
GrandMA3
All paidCueSync drives a grandMA3 console over OSC. It fires executors, sequences, macros and Looks from your cues, pads, AutoPilot and Theatre cue lists, writes…
MIDI and MIDI Show Control
What it's for — CueSync sends two different kinds of MIDI to gear on a cable, a USB interface, a network session or a virtual bus.
MIDI Grid Controllers
What it's for — CueSync turns a Novation Launchpad or Akai APC grid into a physical Cue Pads surface.
Network Outputs
Network Outputs is where you add, configure, and test every protocol connection from CueSync to your lighting consoles, media servers, and show-control…
Network Planning
Putting CDJs, a pixel Art-Net router, a grandMA3 computer, a Resolume computer and the machine running CueSync on one switch, and knowing whether it will…
OSC, DMX and Remote Inputs
This page is about everything that lets the outside world fire CueSync: an OSC message from a phone, a script or another console; a DMX channel from a…
Pangolin Beyond
What it's for — CueSync sends PangoScript to Pangolin Beyond over TCP to trigger laser cues on Beyond's cue grid, stop them, set the master and zone…
Pixel Wall
CueSync drives an RGB pixel wall of its own, without a lighting desk: LED tape, tubes, a panel, or a rig over several controllers.
Pixera
CueSync drives an AV Stumpfl Pixera media server over Pixera's Native API (JSON-RPC over TCP).
Pro Decks
DJPro Decks gives you a full-screen view of every connected Pioneer player, one player per row, with full waveforms and real-time sync data.
QLab
CueSync drives QLab 5 over OSC. A Theatre cue, a Cue Pad, a Look or the panic can GO a QLab cue by number, start it, stop it, move the playhead, or…
REAPER
Theatre and aboveCue positions and REAPER markers are the same list written twice. On most theatre, broadcast and corporate rigs the audio department owns the REAPER…
rekordbox XML
DJMoving a prepared collection between rekordbox and CueSync as a file, with no Pioneer hardware in the room.
Resolume Arena
CueSync drives Resolume Arena over OSC. It triggers clips and columns, moves layer and master levels, fades a layer's opacity to the tempo, follows the…
Elgato Stream Deck
CueSync drives an Elgato Stream Deck directly over USB as a physical cue surface: the keys mirror your current CuePad bank (or, if you choose, the…
CueSync Studio
All paid — a separate subscription add-onWhat it's for — Studio is where the show gets designed before anyone is in the room.
Timecode
TheatreTimecode is the master clock screen for Theatre and full-edition rigs.
TouchDesigner
TouchDesigner is a node graph, not a console. It has no cue list to GO and no blackout to fire, so CueSync does not pretend otherwise: it sends your…
Unreal Engine
CueSync drives an Unreal Engine world the way it drives a lighting desk.
Venue Profiles
What it's for — A venue profile is a saved snapshot of a room's rig: which outputs to connect, what the rig can physically do, and how your cues should…
VIOSO
What it's for — CueSync controls a VIOSO Player or Show server over its TCP remote-control interface.
Settings
Every application setting in one place.
Reference
Keyboard shortcuts, dialogs, triggers, actions, protocols, technical specifications, glossary, and troubleshooting.
What Each Action Can Send
One row per action type — 29 in all — so this page says exactly what the app can do.
Action Reference
Every action type a cue can carry — 28 in all, available in every edition.
The CueSync Bus
Most beat bridges publish a clock — bar, beat, BPM, phase. The CueSync Bus publishes what CueSync knows on top of that: where you are in the arrangement…
Desk Verification
A short checklist for proving your own desk setup before a show. Every console, software version and network is a little different, so one dry run on…
Dialogs
TheatreCreate or edit a cue in the cue stack. Set the trigger (when the cue fires), add one or more actions (what it sends to each output), name the cue, and…
Glossary
Operator-facing definitions for the terms you will encounter across CueSync screens, documentation, and error messages.
Keyboard Shortcuts
A grouped reference of every default keyboard shortcut. Most shortcuts listed here are rebindable — open Settings → Shortcuts to reassign any action to a…
Protocol Reference
Every protocol CueSync can speak, with its transport and default port.
Technical Specifications
The numbers behind CueSync — for production managers, network techs, and anyone speccing a show around it.
Trigger Reference
Every trigger type CueSync can fire a cue on — 18 in all. Set a cue's trigger in the Cue Editor; the picker groups them into Music-Reactive and Scripted…
Troubleshooting
Operator recovery steps for common problems. Each entry follows the pattern: what you see → what it means → what to do.
Workflows
A whole show from start to finish — a DJ set, a Theatre show, and a hybrid night — tying the other sections together.
DJ Set Workflow
DJWhat it's for — A DJ-driven show runs on one signal, the beat and structure of the music, and two engines that read it: the cue stack (cues you wrote…
Hybrid Night: Theatre then DJ
CueSync Production runs both halves on one laptop; Theatre plus DJ on two laptops covers the same groundSome nights start as a show that runs to a clock or a call and turn into a DJ set: a fashion show into a club night, a keynote into a party, a ceremony…
Theatre Show Workflow
TheatreThis page follows one cue-driven show from the first network test to the printed cue sheet.