Stacking Effect Cues
Effect Stacks — Create Seamless, Automated Lighting Sequences
Meet Effect Stacks, your new go-to tool for building smooth, hands-free lighting sequences. Instead of manually triggering every cue, Effect Stacks lets you design a complete timeline of effects that play automatically from start to finish. Whether you're running a show, syncing to music, or building complex multi-cue performances, Effect Stacks helps you bring everything together with precision and ease.
Designed for creators, performers, and technicians who want:
- • Automated lighting transitions
- • Music-synchronized cue playback
- • Repeatable show sequences
- • Easy-to-edit timelines
- • Total control with zero stress
What Are Effect Stacks?
Effect Stacks let you combine multiple Effect Cues into one automated playlist. Each cue has its own runtime, order, and behavior - giving you full creative freedom to design anything from simple transitions to fully choreographed productions. Just drag your cues onto the timeline, set how long each one should run, and hit play. From there, Effect Stacks handles everything for you.
Why You'll Love It
Build Shows Like a Timeline
Create a clear, visual sequence of cues without guesswork. Reorder items with drag-and-drop, quickly adjust timings, and see your total duration update automatically.
Two Ways to Control Time
Choose the style that fits your performance:
- • Time Mode: Perfect for traditional shows and ambient scenes. Set exact durations in seconds or minutes.
- • Beats Mode: Ideal for music-synchronized performances. Set runtime in beats and let the system stay perfectly in sync with your BPM.
Flexible End Behaviors
When your stack finishes, decide what happens next:
- • Stop
- • Loop
- • Jump to another stack
- • Trigger a specific cue
Perfect for continuous shows, multi-part performances, and automated transitions.
Easy Stack Management
Create as many stacks as you need. Edit them anytime. Delete or reorder with a click. Each stack card shows you everything you need at a glance - duration, cue count, end behavior, and status.
Built for Music-Driven Shows
Beats Mode ensures flawless timing by advancing cues based on beats instead of seconds. No fades, no lag, no drift - just perfect rhythm.
Advanced Playback Controls
Professional cue stack playback with tracking mode, auto-follow chains, and mid-fade halt. Full control over every transition.
- • Tracking mode with accumulated state across sequential cues
- • Auto-follow cue chains with timed progression
- • Halt mid-fade to freeze any crossfade in progress
- • Cue merge and remove for non-destructive editing
Live Performance Tools
Console-style controls built for theatre and live production workflows.
- • Go/Back playback with keyboard shortcuts (Space / Shift+Space)
- • Multi-stack playback with per-stack Go/Stop controls
- • Active step indicator with pulse animation and auto-scroll
- • Cue inspector and next-cue preview
What You Can Create With Effect Stacks
- • Fully Automated Show Sequences: Design beginning-to-end lighting shows with zero manual input.
- • Music-Synchronized Performances: Use Beats Mode to match cues to the tempo of your track.
- • Multi-Act Productions: Chain stacks together for smooth transitions between scenes or acts.
- • Practice & Rehearsal Tools: Loop sections for repeated run-throughs and fine-tuning.
- • Fluid Transitions: Blend short and long cues for dynamic, polished lighting movement.
- • Theatre Productions: Go/Back cue calling with keyboard shortcuts for traditional stage workflows.
- • Multi-Stack Shows: Run parallel cue lists simultaneously with independent Go/Stop controls.
A Better Way to Work With Cues
Effect Stacks doesn't copy or duplicate cues — it references them. That means:
- • Edit a cue once, and your changes appear everywhere
- • Deleting a cue warns you if it's in use
- • Your stacks stay clean and up-to-date automatically
It's powerful, smart, and designed to make your workflow easier.
Perfect for…
- • Lighting designers
- • DJs
- • Stage managers
- • Event coordinators
- • Theatre productions
- • Installations + interactive environments
- • Anyone who wants smooth, automated lighting control
Simple. Visual. Powerful.
Effect Stacks takes the complexity out of cue sequencing and puts creativity front and center. Whether you're running a small event or designing a fully automated show, this feature gives you the control, flexibility, and confidence to build something that looks incredible - every single time.