The Interface

CueSync has one shell that stays constant across every screen. Learn it once and you know where everything lives.

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Shell overview

The shell has four persistent regions:

• Deck strip — the narrow strip at the very top showing live deck readouts while a Pioneer deck is active (see below).
• Content area — the main workspace. This swaps when you navigate between screens.
• EdgeBar — the bottom bar. Navigation and live status live here, and it reports a latched panic; the panic buttons are elsewhere (see Panic controls below).
• Overlays — the Command Palette, timecode transport popup, and notification banners appear on top of the content area when needed.

Deck strip

While Pioneer decks are on the network, the strip at the top of every screen shows what is playing without leaving your current view. Per active deck:

• Deck identity — the real hardware model and player number as reported over PRO DJ LINK ("CDJ-3000 · 2"), or the slot name ("CDJ-2") if the model is not reported.
• Live BPM — the effective (pitch-adjusted) tempo, to one decimal.
• Track identity — artist and title of the loaded track.
• REMAIN — a countdown to the end of the track. It appears only when CueSync can show it honestly — a known track duration and a solid position lock; otherwise it is hidden rather than guessed.
• Badges — MASTER (tempo master), ON AIR (red — the deck is live on the mixer), SYNC, and LOOP ("LOOP 8" while a loop with a known beat length is active).
• LINK STALE / LINK LOST — a warning chip when a deck's PRO DJ LINK feed goes quiet, and a red chip when it disconnects. If you see these mid-set, check the Ethernet chain.

The strip appears in the DJ and Production editions, collapses when no deck is connected, and steps aside where it would duplicate a full deck surface (Pro Decks, Performance mode, Cue Pads immersive). The Hide Deck Info toggle on the Cues screen reclaims its height entirely.

Notices that ask you something

A few notices are questions rather than news. They stay on screen until you answer or close them, and closing one leaves things as they were:

They are notices, never dialogs, so Space stays GO while one is up. With Do Not Disturb on, a question waits and appears when Do Not Disturb ends. What to do with each: Troubleshooting.

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EdgeBar — navigation and live status

The EdgeBar is the horizontal bar at the bottom of the screen. It does two things at once: it is the primary navigation control, and it is a live status strip that shows the health of your show at a glance.

Navigation groups

Destinations are organized into three groups, separated by a divider. Tap or click any icon to switch screens.

CREATE — building your show

CONTROL — running your show

Two DJ destinations are deliberately not icons in this bar, to keep the Production edition's row from over-densifying. Both are still full destinations:

CONNECT — wiring up gear

Pinned right: Settings is always visible at the far right of the EdgeBar, regardless of which group is active.

Live status readouts

The EdgeBar also carries a row of live readouts between the navigation groups and the panic status tokens. These update in real time:

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Command Palette

Typing filters commands as you go, and any match that has a keyboard shortcut shows it on the right — so the palette doubles as the fastest way to learn a binding you keep forgetting. Plenty of commands have no shortcut at all; the palette is the only way to reach those.

Press Cmd+K from anywhere in the app to open the Command Palette. The exception is Performance mode, where Cmd+K is Skip Cue; open the palette from View ▸ Command Palette… instead. The palette belongs to the main window, so that menu item is off in a pop-out.

Type to fuzzy-search across every action CueSync knows about. Results are grouped by category:

Keyboard: ↑/↓ to move between results, Enter to run, Esc to dismiss.
Touch / trackpad: swipe down to dismiss.

The Command Palette is the fastest way to trigger any action without remembering a keyboard shortcut.

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Panic controls

The EdgeBar only reports panic; it has no panic buttons. While a state is latched, the live readouts show a BLK, FRZ or MAN token, and a full-width strip appears directly above the EdgeBar — BLACKOUT ACTIVE, FREEZE ACTIVE or MANUAL OVERRIDE — with a RECOVER button for a blackout and a RELEASE button for the other two.

You engage a panic state from Transport → Panic (Cmd+Shift+B Blackout, Cmd+Shift+G Freeze, Cmd+Shift+M Manual Override, Cmd+Shift+R Resume All), from the Command Palette (type "panic"), from the panic toolbar on the Performance screen (shown while something is playing or a panic is latched; BLACKOUT, FREEZE and MANUAL are latching switches there, a second press releases that state alone, and RESUME AP gives Auto Pilot back without lifting a standing Blackout or Freeze), from the tray menu's panic item (it reads Blackout All Outputs, and Release Blackout while one is latched), or from the BLACKOUT button at the bottom right of Run Mode, which takes two presses inside the double-press safety window. Reach for these when something goes wrong mid-show.

Releasing. Each state is released on its own. RECOVER (also Release Blackout and Esc) releases the blackout only, and a freeze keeps holding. RELEASE (also Unfreeze Outputs) lifts the freeze alone, and RELEASE on a manual override (also Release Manual Override) lifts that alone; Auto Pilot is given back once nothing else is latched. Resume All clears every latch at once, including a blackout, and re-arms Auto Pilot. Releasing a blackout does not restore the levels you had — apart from a grandMA3's Grand Master, Resolume's composition opacity and Unreal's camera fade — so fire your look again. While any panic state is latched the Cue Pads are locked to Perform mode.

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Keyboard shortcuts

CueSync has keyboard shortcuts for most common actions. A few defaults to know:

While Performance mode is on screen it owns Cmd+K (Skip Cue) and Cmd+Z (undo the last override), and the menus drop the Command Palette, Undo, Redo and Reset Cue Stack shortcuts; the items still work from the menu. See Keyboard Shortcuts.

All shortcuts are rebindable. Open Settings → Shortcuts to remap any action to any key combination, including chords. There are dozens of rebindable actions covering navigation, cue control, pad modes, undo/redo, and more.

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Getting help inside the app

This manual ships inside CueSync. The three rooms this app runs in — a booth, a bio box, a truck — are the three rooms with no reliable internet, and the moment you reach for the manual is usually the moment before doors. So none of the routes below need a network.

The reader has a contents rail and a search box that searches the full text of every page, not just the titles. Pages are filtered to the reading path for your edition; CueSync Production sees all of them. On a narrow window — a pop-out on a second monitor — the reader shows one pane at a time and the contents becomes a Contents button.

Hover any navigation icon and the tooltip tells you what that screen is for. The tooltip is the opening line of that screen's page in this manual. (The manual chord opens the page for the screen you are currently on, not the one under the cursor.)

The View online button in the reader opens the copy on the website. Its only advantage is that it can be newer than your installed build — everything else is better offline.

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Tips & gotchas

• The EdgeBar is always present. If you can't find a control, look there first.
• In Read-Only mode, screens that a licence would open show a gate overlay with an explanation, and hovering over a locked nav icon shows a tooltip with the same information. On a paid edition the screens it lacks are not shown, and asking for one gives an "isn't available in your edition" notice with a See editions button.
• The license badge turns amber when a grace period is running (subscription expired, offline window closing). Act before it turns red.
• Keyboard navigation moves focus between screens; Space is GO when focus is inside the cue stack, not in a text field.
• GO belongs to the show, not to the window. A pop-out answers Space for the show whenever the main window is on Run Mode; a Show Editor pop-out keeps Space for its own transport.
• On a wide or 4K window, Network, Settings and Track Prep use the extra width instead of leaving it empty.

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Related

• Installation — download, install, and activate
• Settings — license, shortcuts, and all preferences
• Keyboard Shortcuts — complete shortcut reference