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Show timeline

In Show Timeline, place scenes, cues and blackouts on a song's waveform, set fades, preview and save the show.

In Show Timeline, every show belongs to a song: you line up scene, cue and blackout events on that song’s time axis, and each one fires right on time while the song plays. In this guide you’ll create a show, read its waveform to add your first event, discover that scenes stack and add an Off event, place a cue on the drop, build a Blackout on/off pair, and save the show so it’s ready to play live.

Open Show Timeline

  1. Click the Show Timeline card on the home screen.

    Empty Show Timeline screen; the New show box on the left, a Select a show hint on the right.

Create a show

  1. Type “Opening Show” into New show name, pick “Tech House Sound of Freedom” from Pick a track, click Create.

    Show added to the list on the left, the waveform drawn on the right, transport reading 0:00.0 / 3:03.5.

Read the waveform, move around

Read the song before you place any light. The waveform shows you the way: an intro up to 0:07.7, then a thinning break, and at 0:15.5 it suddenly gets thick — that’s the drop.

  1. Click the ruler around 0:12; the playhead jumps there. Press Space, listen until you hear the drop (~0:18), press Space again.

    Playhead paused around 0:18; the waveform shows the thin break and the thick drop section at 0:15.5.

Add your first event

An event has five parts: Time (s), Type, Target, Level, and Fade ms, which only shows for the Scene type. There are three types: turn a scene on or off, start or stop a cue, or black out everything.

  1. Click Stop; the playhead returns to 0:00.0. Click the “Add at 0:00.0” hint button.

    A blue marker appears at 0:00.0; the editor opens below: Type Scene, Target Blackout (the default), Level On, Fade ms 500.

  2. Select “Warm White” from Target; type “2000” into Fade ms.

    Editor: Target Warm White, Fade ms 2000.

Scenes stack: add an Off event

  1. Double-click the ruler at ~0:07.7; a new event is added. Hitting the exact point is hard, so type “7.7” into Time (s).

    New marker around 0:07.7; the Time (s) box reads 7.7.

  2. Select “Blue Night” from Target; type “6000” into Fade ms.

    Editor: Target Blue Night, Fade ms 6000; the event list shows 2 rows.

  1. Click Go to position (the playhead jumps to 0:07.7); click the event’s row in the list (clears the selection); click the “Add at 0:07.7” hint button.

    A second marker added at 0:07.7, on top of the previous one; the editor opens fresh with its default values.

  2. Select “Warm White” from Target; select Off from Level; type “1500” into Fade ms.

    Editor: Target Warm White, Level Off, Fade ms 1500; an OFF label under the marker; the event list shows 3 rows.

Place a cue on the drop

  1. Click Zoom in twice; double-click the ruler at ~0:15.5; type “15.5” into Time (s).

    The point where the waveform gets thick is clearly visible; a new marker sits at 0:15.5, the Time box reads 15.5.

  2. Select Cue from Type; select “Dance Chase” from Target.

    Editor: Type Cue, Target Dance Chase; the marker has turned yellow, the Fade ms box is gone.

  1. Click Go to position; click the event’s row (clears the selection); click the “Add at 0:15.5” hint button.

    A second marker added at 0:15.5, on top of the yellow one.

  2. Select “Blue Night” from Target; select Off from Level; type “0” into Fade ms.

    Editor: Target Blue Night, Level Off, Fade ms 0; the event list shows 5 rows.

Add a Blackout on/off pair

  1. Double-click the ruler at ~0:20.0; type “20” into Time (s); select Blackout from Type.

    New marker at 0:20.0, red; the editor now only shows Time, Type and Level, Target and Fade ms are gone.

  2. Double-click the ruler at ~0:21.0; type “21” into Time (s); select Blackout from Type; select Off from Level.

    A final marker at 0:21.0, red, with an OFF label underneath; the event list shows 7 rows.

Drag a marker, go to position, preview

  1. Click the Blue Night marker at 0:07.7 (it gets selected and grows); drag it right to ~0:08.5, watch the Time (s) box update; drag it back to 0:07.7.

    The Blue Night marker moved to 0:08.5, selected with a grown outline; the Time box reads 8.5.

  2. Click Go to position; press Space, listen to the transition, press Space again.

    Playhead paused a little past 0:07.7.

Save

  1. Click Save, which appears at the top right.

    The Save button is gone; the show's row on the left now reads Opening Show · Tech House Sound of Freedom · 7 events.

What Stop does, and doesn’t

  1. Click Stop.

    The Stop button highlighted; the transport reads 0:00.0 / 3:03.5, the playhead is back at the start.

Play it live

Playback doesn’t depend on the screen: leave the Show Timeline screen for any other screen, and the show keeps playing. Add a Show Timeline widget to a panel, and you can start and stop the show with one tap from Live Control, and scrub the progress bar to jump anywhere in the song — it works the same way on a touchscreen and over remote access. We covered adding this widget to a panel in Mixer designer.

What’s next

You’ve now read a song’s waveform to place scene, cue and blackout events, smoothed them with fades, fixed things by ear, and saved a show that’s ready to play live with one tap. Use the same method to add as many events as you need to build out the rest of a show. Next up: 3D stage preview, watching this show without a rig.

Updated: October 8, 2026

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