Free and Pro
Nothing about running a show is behind a key. The free app plays the sound, drives the rig, fires from a footswitch and shows you what arrived. Cuerunner Pro is the show around it: the desk, the radios, the tablet, the second machine and the handover.
The free half
No key, no account, no expiry, on as many of your own machines as you like. Nothing is taken away from it later, and the file it writes opens anywhere.
| What you get | Details |
|---|---|
| The cue stack | Eleven cue types — audio, MIDI, OSC, MSC, network, script, wait, fade, stop, group and devamp — with playlist, random, sequence and timeline groups, pre- and post-waits, auto-advance, arm and disarm, colour, and undo. |
| The engine | Every output the interface has, one device at a time: ASIO, through the interface's own driver — proved in CI against a real driver; WASAPI shared and exclusive, Core Audio, ALSA and JACK (not yet proved on real hardware). Sample-accurate scheduling, per-cue level and pan, a crosspoint routing matrix, fades and loops, streaming for long files, and honest numbers when something goes wrong. |
| The waveform | Zoom, onset detection, split, vamps and devamps, and trim silence at the edges — measured from the file itself. |
| Cueing it | OSC, MIDI and show-control messages (not yet proved on real hardware) that fire a cue, whether they come from a desk, a footswitch, a pad or another program; the messages Cuerunner sends; the Monitor, which shows what arrived; and panic. |
| The showfile | .cuerunner, byte-for-byte the same for the same show, with its own history — who saved it, when, which cues moved — plus autosave, recovery and the demo show. |
| The log | What fired, what failed and why, filterable, alongside the show's own events. |
What a key turns on
Pro is what a production needs once there is more than one person, more than one machine, or a radio mic in the room.
| Capability | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Scenes and the desk | A one-off message to the desk, when you send it yourself. | The Scenes view — the show's faders against its scenes — and the scene cue, which writes the membership a scene asks for and then each mic's mute, so the show can move an ETC Eos desk or an Allen & Heath SQ or Avantis (not yet proved on real hardware) as one of its own steps, plus the desk link that lets the desk's keys walk the show. |
| Radio mics | — | Every transmitter's battery and RF level in the Monitor and the mic plot, alarms when a pack or an aerial misbehaves, and the session report afterwards. Reads the receivers over a telemetry document or, on the bench, the demo rack. |
| The script | Script cues — JavaScript, with the show's own helpers. | The script panel beside the cue stack, and the read-only tablet view over the local network for the person calling the show. |
| The second machine | — | Redundant playback: a live and a standby machine, a heartbeat over the network, and a takeover that keeps the position — with the licence that lets both machines run. |
| The showfile | Its own history, readable anywhere. | Comparing this show with another version of it, merging two people's copies, and the .cuerunnerx bundle that carries the show and its media as one file. |
| The network | — | Finding the devices that announce themselves (not yet proved on real hardware) — Dante endpoints among them — and warning when one drops off. |
The key
- Signed, and checked on the machine — nothing phones home, and nothing needs an account.
- A key ends when it ends. The Pro half stops on that machine the moment the last day is out — the Pro services first, the desk link among them, and scene cues refused from then on — while nothing already playing is interrupted and the free half keeps working. A pair set to take over by itself hands the show to the standby when the machine that ran out goes quiet; keeping the standby licensed is what makes that work.
- Not tied to one computer: the machine you run from and the one standing by.
- Deactivate it and that machine is back to the free half.
- A show written with Pro opens anywhere. Its scenes, its mic plot and its triggers travel with the file even on a machine that has no key — only the surfaces and the services wait for one.
- Enter a renewed key and the Pro half comes back on the spot, with no restart.
What Cuerunner does not do is play the video. Another program owns the projection and Cuerunner tells it when to roll; that boundary is deliberate, and it is how the room keeps one clock — working with other programs shows the wiring.