What is a Cue?
A Cue is an event that triggers all the clips on a horizontal row of the trigger grid.
Cues are represented by orange circles on the leftmost column of the Clip Grid. Cues are lettered A through H for easy recognition and assignment on the Cue and Edit pages.
Cues can be triggered in one of several ways:
- Left-click one one of the circular orange Cue buttons
- Place a Cue Marker on the timeline, and roll the playhead through that point (see: Arranging with Cue Markers)
- If the Cue page is selected in the main window (or has keyboard focus when it is detached in its own window), then the F-keys 1..8 will launch cues A..H
What is Cue Isolate?
Enabling a Slot’s “Cue Isolate” in the Launch Options will prevent it from responding to the Cue button. This means it won’t launch the clip in this slot (if there is one) or stop the playback of this track (if there isn’t one)
Example usage of Cues and Cue Isolate
In this image, the first Cue ‘A’ represents the verse of a song, and the second row ‘B’ is the chorus:
Clicking the ‘A’ cue will launch the sounds for the verse
Clicking the ‘B’ cue will stop the clips on ‘A’ and start playing the chorus
The third row ‘C’ is a group of sounds that can be triggered anytime in the verse or chorus. Since the ‘Cue Isolate’ is engaged on the first and third tracks, it won’t stop the sounds that are currently playing on those tracks.
For more complex examples, see Arranging with Cue Markers and Arranging with Follow Options. Note that you can combine both techniques. For example you can arrange a verse with random fills, and a chorus with random fills. And then use Cue Markers to sequence a specific series like verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus ….
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