01 — 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
Show control for macOS
Every cue in the show.
One list.
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.
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.
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.
02 — Video
A Metal compositor, not just a media 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
03 — 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
04 — 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
Light Designer
Look at the stage, not a column of channels.
Patch your fixtures once, then work on a picture of the stage, now in 3D: beams through haze, pools of light on the floor, and moving heads following their pan and tilt as you program. 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, with no rig plugged in at all.
A second Mac, one click from taking over.
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.
PRIMARY
FOH MacBook Pro
GO · cue 14
BACKUP
Booth Mac mini
silent · cue 14
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, MTC and Art-Net timecode, generated or chased.
In the room
Built by people who run shows with it.
CueStudio is written by a production company. 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.
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.