Playing and Setting Cues

The 'current cue' is a specific range of music that plays when you click the Cue button in the Transport window or press the C key. You determine the current cue by your most recent action'whatever range of music you most recently played or selected becomes the current cue. Selecting or playing a new range erases the old cue and creates a new, current cue. You can save a cue into four different locations, which you set up and are not dependent on the most recent action. These cues remain as you set them unless you overwrite them by setting a new cue. You can set 4 different cues.

To select and play the current cue:

  1. Click the Arrow Tool icon in the Graphic Editor window to turn the cursor intothe Arrow Selection Tool.

  2. Drag in the Graphic Editor window's Notes display (or within other Data Type display modes) across the desired range.

  3. Play the cue by clicking the Cue button in the Transport window or by pressingthe C key.

If you play back or select a different range, that range becomes the currentcue.

To set a cue:

  1. Select a region by dragging across a range in the Graphic Editor window's Notes display (or within other Data Type display modes of the Graphic Editor).

  2. Click the Set button in the Transport window.

  3. Click one of the four numbered Cue buttons.

Metro saves the current cue in the location (1 through 4) that you choose.

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To playback stored cues:

  • Click the numbered button (under the Set button in the Transport window)associated with the desired range, then click the Cue button.

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The only way to erase an existing cue is to overwrite it by setting a new one.

The next step in our tutorial is Looping Playback of Your Track.

Playing and Setting Cues