Building a cue list

A show is a list of cues in the order they happen. This is how to get one from a script to something you can run with one finger.

Adding and ordering

The toolbar adds cues: Audio, Group, Fade, Wait, Stop, and the rest under More. A new cue lands after the selected one. Dragging a row moves it; dropping audio files on the list adds them where you dropped them.

The cue list: numbered rows with type icons, names, durations, pre-wait, post-wait and advance columns. — One row per cue. The chevron on a group row opens it.

Right-click a row for duplicate, delete, colour, arm and disarm. A disarmed cue stays in the list and is skipped by GO, which is how you take something out of a show without losing it. Undo is Ctrl/⌘ + Z and covers the last 50 edits.

Numbers and names

Numbers are yours: they are text, not positions, so 12.5 and LX 12 are both fine and inserting a cue renumbers nothing. Names are what you read at speed — name them for the moment in the show, not the file. Double-click a row to rename it.

Every cue has notes. The first line appears in the bar at the top when the cue is playing or next, so a note is worth writing: "let it run under the scene change", "wait for the door".

The cue types

Twelve of them, and the reference lists every field of each. In practice:

Type	What it is for
Audio	Play a file. Level, pan, fades, loops, trims and routing.
Wait	Hold for a set time. The glue in a sequence.
Fade	Ramp another cue's level, and optionally stop it at the end.
Stop	Stop one cue, or everything, with or without a fade.
Group	Cues inside a cue: fire them in order, all at once, at random, or on a timeline.
MIDI / OSC / Network	Send a message to something else in the rig.
Show Control	MSC: GO, STOP and LOAD to a desk that speaks it.
Script	Run JavaScript, including a system command.
ScenePro	Move the sound desk to a scene you built.
Devamp	Let a looping cue out of its loop and play on.

Groups

A group is a cue with cues inside it. GO fires the group, and what happens next is the group's mode:

Sequence — its children in order, each after the one before.
All at once — everything together: a bang, a blackout, three sends in one press.
Random — one child, picked at random. Good for a stinger you do not want to be identical every night.
Timeline — each child at an offset you set by dragging it. The dock draws the timeline for a group in this mode.
Playlist — one child per GO. The group holds the show until a full pass is done, so a walk-in playlist of thirty cues is thirty presses.

The timeline editor: a group's children laid out along a time axis with draggable offsets. — A timeline group: drag a cue to change when it fires.

Stopping a cue inside a group is not the same as stopping the group: the group moves on from it. A sequence steps to the next child, a timeline stops waiting for the one you took away, and a playlist's pass is left where it was, so the next GO fires the child after it.

Open a group with the chevron on its row. A group's duration is worked out from what is inside it.

Timing: pre-wait, post-wait and advance

Three settings on the Basics tab decide how a cue behaves in time.

Setting	What it does
Pre-wait	Waits this long after GO before the cue does anything.
Post-wait	Waits this long after the cue finishes before handing over.
Advance	Whether the next cue fires by itself: None, On start (as soon as this one starts) or On end (when it finishes).

On start chains cues that should happen together but stay separate rows. On end is the one to reach for after a wait: a count-in that hands over to the music by itself is a wait with Advance set to On end.

An audio cue does not hold the show. It starts, and GO moves on. That is why a sequence uses waits to time what comes next rather than waiting for the sound to finish — unless you set Advance to On end, which does wait for it.