Welcome

CueStudio 2 is a professional show-control application for macOS. It plays and manages cues for live performance: audio, video, images, lighting (DMX), MIDI, timecode, serial hardware, and network commands: all from a single ordered cue list that you advance by pressing GO.

This manual walks through every feature from basic cue playback to multi-machine redundancy.

#Reading this manual

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Use the text-size buttons at the top of the page (or ⌘− and ⌘+) to make the manual bigger or smaller. Click the percentage to go back to 100%. The size is remembered on this Mac.
To resize the text in the REST of the app, use the A− / A+ control in the main header bar, beside the light/dark button. That setting scales every window at once and is remembered on this Mac.
Export the whole manual to a Markdown file from the sidebar if you want an editable copy for your own crew notes.

#How a show works

A show is a list of cues. Each cue does one thing: play a sound, show a video, send a lighting scene, wait, or fire a command. You arm the next cue and press GO (the space bar) to fire it. Cues can also fire automatically after one another, on a timer, on incoming timecode, or at a set time of day.

#The main window

The large central table is your cue list.
The header bar at the top shows the master volume knob and a peak meter.
The transport bar at the bottom has GO, Pause, Stop, Previous, Next, and PANIC.
The clocks bar shows elapsed time, remaining time, and the current timecode.
The inspector panel at the bottom edits the selected cue's settings. Its tabs (Routing, Playback, Trigger, Control, FX, Video FX, Extras) change to suit the selected cue type, so a Memo shows only what a Memo can do.