Solo
To learn it, and to run a smaller show
$0free
No card, and no end date
- Every kind of cue, fade and trim
- One layer, one act, one screen
- One Mac at a time
Run the showfrom one key.
Sound, video, projection and a live camera in one running order on your Mac. Solo is free, with no end date.
Version 1.2.0macOS 12 or laterApple silicon and IntelNo card
Next cue: Q1 · Opening music
Shortcut: SpaceGO fires the next cue in the console's running order.
Next cue: Q1 · Opening music
Version 1.2.0macOS 12 or laterApple silicon and IntelNo card
Q1 · The console
Three keys run the night.
Red is playing, green is next, and the key for each is printed under it. Nothing hides in a menu.
On Pro, the same three are on an iPad in your hand, anywhere in the room. CueMonkey Remote for iPad. Coming to the App Store.
Q2 · One file
The whole show is one file.
Sounds, videos, fades and screen settings, all inside one .cmshow. Hand it to the deputy on a stick and it opens exactly as it left you.
Another setup sent by email
- twelfth-night.session
- ~/Downloads/storm-final-v3.wavmissing
- /Volumes/Show drive/doorbell.aifmissing
- ~/Desktop/sky-loop.movmissing
- curtain-call.mp3
CueMonkey the same show
- Twelfth Night.cmshow
- 12 sounds · 4 videos · 3 images
- every fade, trim and level
- screens, mapped to the venue
- the running order
Q3 · Loudness
Twelve volumes, evened in one press.
Files from twelve places arrive at twelve volumes. CueMonkey measures each in LUFS, the way broadcast does, and brings the whole list to the level the show sits at.
Your files are never touched: it is a number on the cue, and you can take it off.
Q4 · The projector
No projector hangs straight.
Drag the picture to where it lands on the wall. Turn it, mirror it, pull the corners square with the flats.
Saved under the venue's name, back in one press next time: one venue on Solo, every venue on Pro.
Q5 · Trim
Trim without leaving.
Four seconds of a thirty-second effect: pull the two ends in by hand, or a frame at a time with the arrow keys. No trip to an audio editor.
A trim is two numbers on the cue, not a copy on the disk. Backdrops and a live camera get keys of their own too.
Q6 · Before curtain
It tells you the show is ready.
Every file present, every screen connected, the camera found, room to save. Checked in one press before the house opens.
And it runs offline. Nothing about a licence can ever stop a cue.
I have restarted a computer between two cues, with the audience still in their seats. So I built CueMonkey.
Q7 · Pricing
Solo runs the show. Pro grows it.
No subscription. Rent Pro for a day or a week and it simply ends, or own it with one payment. Every rented day that has ended comes off the price of owning it.
For a show
One night: a gala, a conference, a stop on a tour
$15one day
Ends on its own at midnight
- Everything in Pro, midnight to midnight
- Main Mac and a standby
- Counts towards owning it
For the run
Tech week, the rehearsals and the shows
$45seven days
$6.43 a day
- Everything in Pro, for the week
- Starts on any day up to 60 ahead
- Counts towards owning it
For good
For a company that does this every season
$399once
Every 1.x update, nothing renews
- Up to four layers, every act and screen
- Every venue you play, saved
- A locked copy to hand a show over
- The iPad remote, coming to the App Store
- No subscription
- Nothing renews
- Rented days come off owning it
- A show made on Pro opens on Solo
A show is a show. Anything built on Pro opens on Solo, plays on Solo and can be edited on Solo, every layer and every act of it. Nothing in a show file is locked to a plan.
Q8 · Questions
Before you take it into the room.
Is Solo really free, or a trial?
Free, with no end date and no card. It runs a whole show: every kind of cue, every fade and every trim, as many cues as the show needs, on one layer, one act and one screen for the audience.
Does a licence ever stop a show?
No. A licence never stops a show. A rental that ends in the middle of a performance stops nothing: every cue in the running order still fires, to the end of the evening and after it.
When a rental ends, what stops is adding the things it paid for: another layer, another act, another screen for the audience. Your shows and your files are untouched.
What if the booth has no internet on the day?
A rental bought ahead switches itself on when its day comes, with no internet that day. The Mac needs to have been online once after you bought it, so it knows the rental is there: open CueMonkey on it with a connection any time before the day.
How many Macs?
Solo is one Mac at a time, and you move it yourself, at once, from the sign-in window or from your account page.
Pro is two Macs on one licence: the one running the show, and a standby that follows every GO and takes over with one press.
Is it a subscription?
No. A day and a week end on their own and nothing renews. Owning it is one payment. Your card is not kept on file.
Sales tax or VAT, where it is owed, is worked out from the country you bill to and shown before you pay.
We are a school, a college or a charity.
We give Pro to schools, colleges and charities. Tell us who you are and what it is for, with the form below, and a person reads it. There is no code to find and nothing to prove up front.
Is there a version for Windows?
Not yet. CueMonkey is for the Mac today: macOS 12 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel.