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Every cue in the show.
One list.

Show control for macOS. Audio, video, lighting, MIDI, timecode and network cues live together in a single cue list, with a backup Mac following along, silent and sample-locked, ready to take over.

Download for macOS What it does

A free 30-minute session, as often as you like. A free account to download, and no card. Rig outputs switch on when you activate. macOS 15.6 or later.

Tempest, Act I.cuestudio Session · 2 Macs
  1. 12 Preshow music Audio --:--
  2. 13 House to half Light 0:03
  3. 14 Act I opening Group 2:41
  4. 14.1 Storm bed Audio 2:41
  5. 14.2 Upstage projection Video 1:58
  6. 14.3 Thunder crack Audio 0:06
  7. 15 Lightning hit Light 0:01
  8. 16 Fade storm out Fade 8:00
GO NEXT 15 · Lightning hit 00:01:41.3
An illustration of a CueStudio cue list mid-show. Cue 14, an Act I opening group, is playing with three subcues taking over from one another, and cue 15 is armed next.

Built for the whole show, not one department

Sound, projection and lighting are usually three machines and three operators. CueStudio runs all of it from one cue list on one Mac, and each department gets a real tool, not a checkbox.

The CueStudio window during a show: a cue list holding text, video, audio, image, group, timecode, command and memo cues, with the LTC, elapsed and remaining clocks above it and the selected cue's trigger settings open below.
One list, every department. The clocks, the transport and the selected cue's settings are all on the same screen.

Audio

Outputs named for your rig, patched to any channel

  • Crosspoint patch matrix, with gain on every point
  • Audio Unit racks per cue and per output
  • Fade curves, slices, and a booth feed that follows the mix

Video

A Metal compositor, not a player

  • Lens correction, edge blend and mesh warp per projector
  • One canvas spanning several projectors from a single cue
  • NDI and Syphon, in and out

Lighting

A patch, a stage plan, and cues you can read

  • Fixtures with named parameters, merged per parameter
  • Moving heads, groups, effects and presets
  • Art-Net and sACN, plus raw DMX scenes

Control

It talks to the rest of the rig

  • MIDI notes, CC, program change and MSC
  • OSC both ways, LTC and MTC generate and chase
  • HTTP, serial, AppleScript and a web remote

Everything it does, in detail →

Lighting you can see, not just address

Patch your fixtures once, then work on a picture of the stage. Select the lights you mean, pull a level, pick a colour, and record it as a cue. Build the next look in Blind while the current one is still on stage. Moving heads, GDTF profiles, groups, effects, presets and tracking are all in there; the detail page has the list.

Lighting in detail
The CueStudio Light Designer: eight par cans in an arc on the stage plan, lit magenta and amber, with the colour wheel, level fader and effects in the programmer below and Record into a Light cue above.

Run a backup machine, or don’t

One Mac runs a show perfectly well. When the room needs a safety net, a second Mac joins the session and mirrors the first: same cue list, same playhead, one click from taking over.

Nothing to keep in sync

You edit one show. The second Mac receives every change, every GO and the playhead as they happen.

One rig or two

Sharing a speaker system? The backup stays muted. Feeding its own amps and DMX? Switch its outputs on and run fully redundant.

Locked, not merely simultaneous

Audio is scheduled to a shared deadline and held there, so two machines in one room do not drift apart over a long cue.

Takeover in one click

Promote the backup yourself, or let it step up when the primary stops answering.

Find the broken cue before the audience does

The expensive failures are the quiet ones: a file that moved, a stop cue pointing at a cue you renumbered, an output with nothing patched to it. CueStudio goes looking for them while there is still time to fix them.

Pre-Flight Check

Run it before the half. Anything that would fail on GO is listed by cue number, with what to do about it.

Every save, kept

Yesterday’s version is still there after today’s edits. Restore any save, and the one you are leaving is kept too.

Media that travels

The show and its media are one file. Hand it to the next operator and nothing is missing.

Bring the show with you

Import a workspace from other cue-playback software with its cues, levels, waits and targets intact.

Drive it from wherever you are standing

Booth, stage, tech table or the back of the room: the same show, on whatever surface is in reach.

Stream Deck Plugged straight in. Cue keys, transport, clocks.
Web remote GO from any phone on the network.
Presenter view What is running and what is next, on a second display.
AppleScript For the rig that needs gluing together.
OSC In and out, documented.
Timecode LTC and MTC, generated or chased.

Where it actually runs

CueStudio is written by a production company that runs shows with it. It goes out on real gigs, in real rooms, with an audience in and no second chance at a cue. That is why the unglamorous parts got built first: the pre-flight check, the backups, and the spare Mac that can take over.

A darkened function room during a gala dinner. A MacBook on the tech table runs a CueStudio cue list; the monitor beside it shows the auction lot graphic being sent to the room's screens next to a live camera feed of the stage, with the room's screens and magenta house lighting behind.

See it in your own rig

The demo is the whole application. Build your actual show in it, and subscribe when it earns a place in the rack.

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