A cue list with
a GO button

The running order

• Standby and GO. The standby is the next cue, kept apart from what you have clicked on, so checking a cue mid-show does not change what the next GO does. Space is GO.
• Pre-wait, post-wait, continue. A cue can wait before it starts, and fire the next one by itself, counted from its start or its end.
• Arm and disarm. Skip a cue tonight without deleting it; GO steps over it.
• Audition and preload. Check a cue on the control screen only, or rack it so it starts with no spin-up.
• CHECK, before doors. One button lists missing media, broken targets and anything else that would stop the show.

Fired from the lighting desk

The desk sends MIDI Show Control GO, STOP and RESUME, or plain MIDI notes, and Deckboy takes the cue. Timecode works too: Deckboy can chase LTC, or run its own LTC generator from the cue list. A Stream Deck, Bitfocus Companion and OSC drive the same verbs.

Everything a show throws at video

Clips, stills and slides, a camera, a web page, a window from another program, a countdown for the stage manager, a name strap for the curtain call: all of them are cues on the same list, with the same fades and transitions, on Windows, macOS or Linux.

Coming from QLab

If you know QLab, most of this will feel familiar. What carries over, and what does not.

Sequence pictures, sound and lights

The master tracker has a pattern view with keyboard editing and one column per playlist. Cells can take a cue, stop, fade, or set volume and opacity; columns have mute and solo, and rows can jump or start named sections. Keep the classic grid when that suits the running order. Read about the tracker.

Mic cues put live input through the cue’s fades and audio effects. The fixture patch lets DMX cues address lights by name and colour over Art-Net or sACN. A paired phone carries the tracker, cue list, transport and editable DASH.