Generate Show

What 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 phrase it lays down a cue — a build, a drop hit, a breakdown wash — following a theme you pick. You review the draft, uncheck anything you don't want, and commit it to your Cue Stack as a single undoable group. It's the fastest way from a fresh track to a runnable show.

Generate Show is available in CueSync DJ and CueSync Production. (Theatre operators build cue lists in the Show Editor instead.)

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Generating a show

Open File → Generate Show from Track…. The dialog walks four steps:

1. Pick a theme. The dialog shows the track name, its source, and a summary of your connected rig, then a list of theme cards — six built-ins plus any custom themes you've made. Each card names the theme and describes its style; the one you used last is badged Last used. Click a card to start — picking the theme is the generate button.
2. Analyzing. CueSync reads the track's structure (using cached analysis when it has it) and drafts the cues. You'll see the tempo and phrase count as it works.
3. Review & commit. You get the draft: an energy sparkline of the show's arc, and a list of every proposed cue with its bar number, suggested name, phrase type, and a confidence bar. Each cue has a checkbox — untick any you don't want. From here you can:
   • Regenerate — redraw the draft.
   • Save as theme — keep this exact arrangement as a new custom theme.
   • Preview Audio — audition the show against the track's audio as a dry run. This fires nothing to your rig; it's a safe listen-through, and it's only offered when you're working from a local audio file (not a live Pioneer source).
   • Commit — write the ticked cues into your Cue Stack.
4. Commit. The cues are added as one group named Generated · <theme> · <time>, colored by confidence, each set to fire on its phrase change. The whole group is a single undo — one Cmd+Z removes every generated cue if you change your mind.

How many cues you get depends on the track: CueSync emits a cue per mapped phrase, so a richly-structured track yields more cues than a sparse one. A track with no analysis yields none.

Themes

A theme is the taste behind the generation — a set of rules that says what should happen on each kind of phrase (intro, build, drop, breakdown, outro…): raise intensity, throw a strobe burst, call a look, black out. Crucially, a theme is protocol-agnostic — it describes intent, not a specific console. When you commit, CueSync resolves each intent into concrete actions against whatever rig you have connected, so the same theme drives a GrandMA3 in one venue and a Resolume rig in another.

CueSync ships six built-in themes — Main-stage EDM, Club peak-time, Warm-up / cool-down, Minimal techno, Hip-hop / R&B, and Festival big-room. Built-ins are read-only; to make your own, duplicate one and edit the copy (the copy is a frozen snapshot — later app updates to the original won't change it).

The Themes editor

Custom themes live in Settings → Show Themes:

• Duplicate a built-in to start a custom theme, give it a name, and save it.
• Edit a custom theme in the mapping editor: for each phrase type you can Add Intent (raise intensity, strobe burst, set a look, blackout), reorder or remove intents, and set a per-intent probability slider (from "sometimes" up to "always") so a hit doesn't land on every drop.
• Delete custom themes you no longer want.
• Import / Export themes from the File menu (from a file or the clipboard) to share them between machines or with other operators.

The mapping editor is a focused, most-common-intents tool — new intents start from sensible defaults. For finer control, generate a show, tune the draft, and use Save as theme to capture exactly what you built.

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Related pages

• Auto Pilot — hands-off, continuous automation that drives cues live as the music plays
• Cues — the Cue Stack the generated cues land in
• Looks and Scenes — the looks a theme's intents can call
• Track Prep — prepare a track's structure so generation has something to read