Build page

What this does: Build is where you place cues against the audio. You drop markers, sort them into stacks, edit one cue or a hundred at once, and repeat cues on the beat.

Beat grid, tempo changes, Snap and the Beat Builder have their own page: Beat grid and tempo. Media lanes and clips: Media and lanes.

The page at a glance

Part	Where	What it holds
Top bar	Top	Back, the track picker (track number order), the show clock and the track length
Transport bar	Under the top bar	Sheet · Timeline, Stop, Play, the bar counter, zoom, Static · Window · Follow, the Scope chip, Audio, Tools, Beat Builder, LTC GEN, the MA3 chip, the sector picker, + Cue, + Mark
Strip	Under the transport bar	The waveform with cue markers (Sheet), or one lane per stack (Timeline). The Tempo lane sits on top.
Cue Stacks	Classic: left. Flat: top right.	Every stack on the track
Cue sheet	Middle	Every visible cue, in time order. Or one open stack’s cues.
Side panel	Classic: right. Flat: bottom right.	The cue inspector, the clip inspector, or the stack editor
Media lanes	Foot of the page	Audio, video and image lanes. Click its bar to open.
Sequence Options	Foot of the page	Lighting Control, Audio, LTC and outputs for the track. Build → Track Details opens it.

The first track shows a one-line key strip. Close it with ×. Help → Show Onboarding Again brings it back.

Sheet and Timeline

Two views of the same cues. Switch with any of these:

Sheet or Timeline in the transport bar.
Tab, when you are not typing.
View → Toggle Sheet / Timeline (⌘\).

View	Strip	Use it for
Sheet	One waveform. Every visible cue is a marker on it, with its label under it.	Reading the cue list against the music
Timeline	A tool strip, the Master waveform, then one lane per stack with a dot per cue	Seeing which department fires where. Moving one stack’s cues.

The cue sheet, the stacks list and the side panel stay under both views.

Timeline tool strip, left to right: Media lanes (opens the lanes at the foot of the page), Snap, the selected clip, Find cues, Monitor.

Timeline lane labels:

Click a label: open that stack.
⌥-click a label: make it the active stack without opening it.
Right-click a label: Open stack, Make active, Lock, Add marker at playhead, Select all cues.
A locked stack’s label carries a padlock.

Beat groups on the Timeline:

A bracket over a lane is a Beat Builder group, from its first cue to its last.
Click it to select its cues. Double-click to change it in the Beat Builder. Right-click for Follow tempo and Ungroup.
See Beat groups.

Cue blocks

A cue that runs for a while draws a block in its lane, in the stack’s colour. The dot stays at the start. Read the block left to right:

Part	Shows
Thin bar	The delay. Nothing happens yet.
Ramp up	The fade in
Flat top	The cue is fully in
Ramp down	The fade out

Which cues get a block:

Cue	Block
Flash	Flash at the start, Flash Off at the end. The width is the hold.
Video and Cameras stacks	A full-height block with the cue’s name, live until the next cue in the same stack. Its own delay and fade at the start. The next cue’s delay and fade are its fade out. The last cue runs to the end of the timeline.
Any other stack, with a duration	That long
Any other stack, with a delay or fade	Delay plus fade
Off or Kill	No block. In a Video or Cameras stack it ends the cue before it.
No delay, fade or duration	The dot only

A Flash in a Video or Cameras stack sits on top of the live cue. It does not end it.
Zoomed far out, short blocks hide. Zoom in to see them.
Click a block and you click the lane: the playhead moves there. Click the dot to pick the cue.
Drag the dot to move the cue. The block moves with it.
Drag a Flash block’s end to change the hold. It snaps like a marker and is at least one frame. One undo step. The desk’s Flash Off moves with it. Not on a locked stack.
Blocks show on the Timeline lanes only. The waveform shows markers, not durations.
A fader line runs across a stack’s lane when any of its cues sets a fader level. See Fader levels.

The cue sheet

Every visible stack’s cues, in time order. Classic heads it Cues (n). Flat heads it Cue sheet with n cues · n stacks.

Each row shows:

Time on the show clock.
Cue #: the cue’s place in its stack. Set by time, never typed. When the desk cue differs it follows as →12.
Cmd: the desk command. Dimmed when it comes from the stack’s default.
Sector chip: the department, in its colour.
Name, then any notes after a dash.
Stack: its number and place (3.2 = stack 3, cue 2), then the stack’s name in its colour.
Flat only: a Live or Next chip on the rows the playhead is on and coming to.

Sector chips

The chips in the sheet’s header show or hide one department: its cues on the sheet and the Sheet waveform, and its stacks in the stacks list. Timeline lanes follow the stacks’ eyes, not the chips.

Chip	Sector
STR	Structure
LX	Lighting
SFX	SFX
PERF	Performers
SCN	Scenic
VID	Video
CAM	Cameras
NOTE	Show Notes
C	Custom sectors

Tools → View → Sectors → Manage… edits the sectors.

Open one stack

Double-click a stack’s name (Classic), click it (Flat), right-click → Open, or click its Timeline lane label.

The sheet becomes that stack’s list. ← All Cues (or Esc) goes back.
Its header reads n cues, · locked when locked.
Buttons: Renumber desk cues, + Add Cue. With rows selected: n selected, Edit Selected, Delete, Clear.
An open stack is always the active stack.

Find cues

The Find cues field sits:

Sheet: on the right of the sector chips.
Sheet, a stack open: on the right of that stack’s header.
Timeline: on the tool strip, next to Monitor.

Press ⌘F, or Build → Find Cues…, or click the field.
Type part of a name or a note, or a number.
Read the count: 3 of 41 is matches among the cues on screen.

You type	It finds
`chorus`	Names and notes that contain it, any case: `Big Chorus`
`12`	Cue # or desk cue 12, 12.5, 12.25. Never 120.
`12.5`	12.5 only
`#12`	Numbers only. Skips a cue named `Cue 12`.

What changes while it is on:

The sheet and the open stack’s list show only the matches.
Markers and lane dots that don’t match stay in place, dimmed.
Enter moves the playhead to the next match. ⇧Enter to the previous one. Both wrap round.
⌘A selects the matches only.
Esc in the field clears it and leaves the field. So does ×.

Switching track clears the search.

Stacks list

Column	Does
Move (grip)	Drag to reorder. The desk follows the list, Main first, on its next Import: the stacks are built on their new sequences and the old ones stay. See MA3 setup.
Select (dot)	Hollow; filled on the active stack. Click: make it active.
Name	Classic: click makes it active, double-click opens it. Flat: click opens it, ⌥-click makes it active.
Visible (eye)	Hide or show the stack. Hidden stacks are left off the desk.
Solo (S)	Show only soloed stacks.
Lock (padlock)	Lock or unlock its cues. Closed when locked. See Lock a stack.
Edit (pencil)	Open the stack editor in the side panel.

The colour is the thin edge on the row’s left.
A master with sub-stacks has a > / v toggle to fold them.
The tooltip holds the full name, department, cue count, executor and default command.
Keyboard: move between the row’s controls with ⇧Tab (Tab switches views on Build). Enter or Space clicks.
+ New Stack sits in the list’s header.

Right-click a row, or press ⇧F10 with its name focused:

Item	Does
Open	Open the stack in the sheet
Make active	New markers go into it. Shows Active stack when it already is.
Edit…	The stack editor
Renumber desk cues…	Number its desk cues in time order
Department ▸	Move the stack to another sector
Move up · Move down · Move to top · Move to bottom	Reorder the list. The desk follows on its next Import.
Hide / Show · Solo / Unsolo · Lock	The row’s toggles
Shift cues…	A bar under the row: −1f −1s +1s +1f, or type a length and press − or +. Every cue in the stack moves. No undo: shift back by the same amount.
Duplicate	A copy of the stack and its cues, right after it, on the next free desk sequence.
New sub-stack… · New stack…	Add a stack
Delete…	Asks first. ⌘Z brings it back.

Stack editor

The pencil, or Edit…. Changes save as you make them.

Section	Fields
Identity	Name, Colour, Department, Lock cues
Output	Default cue #, Default command, Target cue mode, Step (Iterative only)

Target cue modes:

Mode	Desk cue each cue fires
Iterative (auto-number)	Counts up from Default cue # by Step, in time order. A cue added later keeps the numbers around it: see New cues between numbered cues.
Fixed (same for all)	The stack’s Default cue #
Manual (per cue)	Only what you type on a cue
From cue #	The cue’s own Cue #

A desk cue typed on a cue always wins.

Active stack

One stack per track is active. Its dot is filled and its row tinted. Its Timeline lane has an accent edge.

New markers go into it. M, + Mark, Build → Add Marker, right-click → Add marker here, + Cue / Add Cue…, the desk’s mark and the Stream Deck’s Stack → Mark.
Duplicate… and the Beat Builder start on it. Both can name another stack.
That is all it does. Every cue of an unlocked stack can be edited, whichever stack is active.
Clicking a cue never changes it. The cue is selected and the playhead moves there.

Make a stack active:

Do	Where
Click its dot	Stacks list
Click its name (Classic) · ⌥-click its name (Flat)	Stacks list
Open it	Double-click, Open, or its Timeline lane label
⌥-click its lane label	Timeline
Double-click one of its markers or lane dots	Sheet strip, Timeline
Make … active	Right-click a cue of another stack
Make active	Right-click a stack row or a lane label
A · ⇧A	Next · previous stack in the list. Skips hidden stacks, hidden sectors and folded sub-stacks. A toast names it.
Build → Next Active Stack · Previous Active Stack	Menu bar

No stacks yet: the first M makes one, named <Sector> Cues, in the sector the picker beside + Cue shows. It becomes active.
Pick a stack for one marker: right-click the strip → Add marker in ▸ , or a lane label → Add marker at playhead.
The active stack is saved per track.

Lock a stack

A locked stack keeps its cues as they are. Lock a finished list while you build the next one.

Lock or unlock	Where
Click the padlock	Stacks list row
Lock (tick)	Right-click a stack row or a Timeline lane label
Lock cues box	Stack editor
Lock … · Unlock …	Right-click a cue. With a selection: every stack it touches (`Unlock 2 stacks`).
Unlock	Side panel, on a locked stack’s cue

What a lock stops:

Moving: drag, ← →, Move to…, Shift cues….
Editing: rename, delete, the side panel, Renumber desk cues…, moving cues in or out.
New markers: M, + Cue, the Beat Builder and Duplicate… refuse it. A toast says <stack> is locked. The Beat Builder and Duplicate… show it greyed out.
Deleting the stack. Unlock it first.

What still works:

Click to select and seek. Find, Hide, Solo, Make active.
The stack’s settings: name, colour, department, default command.
⌘Z. It still undoes an edit made before the lock.

How it shows:

Stacks list: the padlock is closed.
Markers and lane dots: no drag. The hover tip leads with a padlock and ends Unlock <stack> to edit.
Timeline: a padlock on the lane label.
Side panel: <stack> is locked. Its cues cannot be edited. and an Unlock button. The fields are greyed.
Open stack: the header reads · locked. Its buttons are greyed.

A mixed selection edits the unlocked cues only. A toast says n locked cues left alone.

The lock holds on other machines too:

A session editor can’t change a locked stack’s cues. The editor sees <stack> is locked on the host.
A desk move of a locked stack’s event is ignored. The Control Desks log says so.

Select cues

Rows, waveform markers, cue labels and lane dots all select into one set.

Do	Result
Click	Select only that cue. The playhead moves to it.
⌘-click	Add it to the selection, or drop it. No seek.
⇧-click	Add the run from the last pick to this one. No seek.
⌘A	Every row on the sheet, or in the open stack. With a search on: the matches.
Right-click → Select · Add to selection	The same, from the cue menu
Lane label → Select all cues	Every cue in that stack
× on the side panel, or Clear in an open stack’s header	Clear the selection

A right-click never changes the selection. The cue menu acts on the whole selection when the cue is in it. Otherwise on that cue only.
There is no box select for cues. A drag on an empty media lane selects clips, not cues.
A click on a marker also opens its comment thread in the side panel.

Work on a selection

Every cue action acts on the whole selection, as one undo step. A locked stack’s cues stay as they are.

Action	Where	With a selection
Drag	A selected marker, cue label or lane dot	Every selected cue moves with it, spacing kept. Snap lands the cue you hold; the rest follow. The group stops as one at the timeline’s start and end.
Nudge	← → (1 frame), ⇧← ⇧→ (10 frames), ⌘← ⌘→ (1 beat), right-click → Nudge ▸	Every selected cue moves by the same amount. Fast presses fold into one undo step.
Move selection to…	Right-click a selected cue	The earliest cue goes to the timecode you type. The rest keep their offsets.
Time	Side panel	This cue goes to the time you type. The rest keep their offsets.
Delete	⌫, right-click → Delete n cues, side panel Delete cue	All of them
Move to stack ▸	Right-click, or the side panel Stack list	All of them, from any stacks. Locked stacks are greyed out.
Duplicate… · Duplicate to ▸	⌘D, Build → Duplicate…, right-click	The selection as one block. See Duplicate cues.
Command, Cue command, Fade, Delay, Hold, Fader, Fader fade	Side panel	The value goes to every selected cue. Clearing a field clears this cue only.
Desk cue	Side panel	Numbers the selection from what you type. See Desk cue numbers.
Name · Notes	Side panel, right-click → Rename n cues…, a row’s inline rename	See Names and notes
Edit…	Right-click	Opens the side panel on that cue. Keeps the selection (`Edit n cues…`).
Lock · Unlock	Right-click	Every stack the selection touches
Renumber desk cues (selection)…	Right-click	The selected cues in the clicked cue’s stack
Edit Selected	Open stack header	Desk cue, Command Override, Fade time, Delay time, Label, Color, Sector for every selected row of that stack

Move selection to…

Right-click a selected cue → Move selection to… (one cue: Move cue to…).
Type the show-clock timecode for the first cue, HH:MM:SS:FF.
Optional: tick Snap to beat and pick Beat, ½ or ¼. The first cue lands on that grid step.
Read the hint: Later by 00:02.12 · spacing kept.
Press Enter, or click Move. Esc cancels.

A move that puts any cue before the timeline start or past the end is refused. The box says which and moves nothing.

The desk follows

Edits go live. Drag one cue or a group and its desk events move while you drag. The drop lands them exactly. Nudges, Move selection to…, Shift cues…, added, deleted, renamed and renumbered cues, fades, delays and commands go at once too.
The rest goes with Import on the desk: fader levels, Desk GO, renamed stacks and tracks, colours. The track reads Import needed. See What syncs live, what needs Import.
The MA3 chip on the transport bar says what the desk gets: MA3 · joined, not joined, auto-sync off, plugin 0.16.8 needed or Import needed (N tracks). Click it for Settings → Helm Sessions.
No desk joined? The edit waits in Cues. Its times go to the desk when it joins. See When the desk was away.

The desk’s playhead macros

With Build on screen, the desk’s HELM play … HELM next drive Build’s player, like the Stream Deck’s transport keys.

HELM play, pause, stop: Build’s player. Live keeps doing what it was doing.
HELM rew, ff: 5 s back or on.
HELM prev, next: select the previous or next track, in the track picker’s order.
Desk control and the Live arm do not apply on Build. They gate only Live.
On any other page the macros drive Live. See Live → Desk transport.

Names and notes

With several cues selected, one name or one note goes to all of them.

Select the cues.
Type in the side panel’s Name. Or right-click → Rename n cues…. Or rename a selected row inline.
Press Enter, or leave the field.

The field shows the name they share, or Mixed when they differ. Renaming n cues sits under it.
A # numbers them in time order, across stacks. Hit # gives Hit 1, Hit 2, Hit 3. Hit ## gives Hit 01, Hit 02.
An empty name changes nothing.
Notes work the same, with no numbering. Emptying shared notes clears them on every cue.
Edit Selected → Label in an open stack takes # too.

Desk cue numbers

Cue # is a cue’s place in its stack. Desk cue is the number it fires on the desk.

Do	Result
Type a desk cue, one cue selected	That cue fires it. Empty = the stack’s rule (shown greyed).
Type a desk cue, several selected	Every selected cue fires that number. `2` on 4 cues gives 2, 2, 2, 2. One undo step. To number them in order, use Renumber desk cues….
Renumber desk cues…	Start, Step (1, 0.5, 0.1 or Custom), Cues (all, or the selected ones). One undo step.
Edit Selected → Desk cue	The same number on every selected row

Desk cues take decimals up to 3 places.

New cues between numbered cues

Once programming has started on the desk, renumbering a sequence moves every look. So a cue added to an Iterative or From cue # stack never renumbers the others:

Added	Desk cue	Example
Between two cues	The number between them with the fewest decimals	Between 3 and 4: 3.5. Between 3 and 3.5: 3.2. Between 3.5 and 4: 3.7.
No room left (3 decimals)	The next free 0.001 above the cue before it	Between 3 and 3.001: 3.002
After the last cue	The next step of the stack’s run	After 33: 34
Before the first cue	Between 0 and it	Before 1: 0.5

The desk gets the new cue in its place in the sequence: stored, named, its event added. Nothing else on the desk changes.
Moving or deleting cues renumbers nothing. A cue keeps its desk cue wherever you drag it.
Only Renumber desk cues… gives cues new numbers. On the desk each renumbered cue is copied to its new number with its looks, and the old number goes.
Fixed stacks give every new cue the stack’s number. Manual stacks give none.

Duplicate cues

Duplicate… copies the selected cues n times, a set interval apart. One cue, 7 copies every 1 bar: 8 bars of it.

Select the cues: one, or a selection from any stacks.
Press ⌘D. Or Build → Duplicate…. Or right-click → Duplicate… or Duplicate to ▸ a stack.
Set Copies, Every, Start and To stack.
Read the Result line.
Click Duplicate. Enter in a field, or ⌘↩, does the same.

Field	Options
Copies	1 to 256
Every	A number and Bars, Beats, Seconds or Frames. Or Timecode: a length, HH:MM:SS:FF.
Start	After the selection · At the playhead · At a timecode, or with a BPM a bar (`17`) or bar.beat (`17.3`)
To stack	The active stack, or any unlocked stack. Locked stacks are greyed out.

Where the copies land:

Start	Copy 1	Copy k
After the selection	One interval after the selection starts	k intervals after it
At the playhead · At	Its first cue exactly there	k − 1 intervals after copy 1

The selection is one block. Each copy keeps the spacing inside it. With bars and beats the spacing is kept in beats, so a copy past a tempo change stretches with the music.
Bars follow the meter. Every 1 bar puts each copy at the same place in the next bar, whether that bar is 4/4 or 3/4. A bar.beat start takes beats up to the bar’s meter: 17.3 in 3/4, not 17.4.
Bars and beats need a BPM. Without one they are greyed out and the unit starts on Seconds.
The Result line reads 14 new cues · copy 1 at 01:00:12:00 · bar 5.1 · copy 7 at 01:00:40:00 · bar 12.1.
Copies past the end of the track are skipped. A copy is placed whole or not at all. A toast counts them.
Each copy keeps the name, notes, command, cue command, fade, delay, hold, duration, colour and fader level.
Desk cues follow the target stack. Iterative: the next free numbers. Fixed: the stack’s number. Manual and From cue #: the next free number only where the original had its own desk cue.
Limits: 4096 new cues in one go. One undo step removes them all.

Flash cues and hold

Flash is a desk command. It sends Flash at the cue and Flash Off a hold later.

Select the cue.
Side panel → Command → Flash. Or set the stack’s Default command to Flash.
Type Hold (s). Empty = 0.5 s.

On the desk a Flash cue is two timecode events: Flash, then Flash Off.
Hold shows only on a Flash cue.
With a selection the hold goes to every selected cue.
On the Timeline drag the end of the Flash block to set the hold. See Cue blocks.

Fader levels

A cue can move its stack’s playback fader on the desk: to a level, over a fade time. Example: at this cue the fader goes to 100 % over 2 s.

Select the cue.
Side panel → Fader (%): 0 to 100.
Optional: Fader fade (s). Empty or 0 = the fader jumps.
Leave the field. With a selection, every selected cue gets it.

Empty Fader = the cue leaves the fader alone.
The Timeline draws a fader line across the stack’s lane: 100 % at the top, 0 % at the bottom. It starts at the first cue with a level. That first ramp starts from 100 %, where a new desk fader sits. Cues does not know where you left it.
On the desk the level runs when the desk cue fires. It needs a joined grandMA3 and an Import. See grandMA3 setup.
Cues only writes the Command of cues that have a fader level, and clears only the ones it wrote. Commands you typed on the desk stay.
Off and Kill fire no desk cue. A level on them never runs. The side panel says so.
One desk cue, one level. When several cues fire the same desk cue (a Fixed stack, a repeat), the first of them sets the level for every firing. The side panel says so.

Side panel

One slot, four states. The last thing you picked decides.

Shows	When
Stack editor	You clicked a stack’s pencil or Edit…
Clip inspector	Media lanes are open and you last clicked a clip. See Media and lanes.
Cue inspector	You last picked a cue
`Select a cue to edit`	Nothing picked

Cue inspector fields:

Field	Notes
Name	One cue, or every selected cue
Time	Show-clock timecode. With a selection, the others keep their spacing.
Command	Use Stack Default, Go, Goto, Top, On, Off, Kill, Flash
Stack	Moves the cue, or the selection, to another stack
Cue #	Read-only: its place in the stack
Desk cue	What fires on the desk
Cue command (MA2 syntax)	An extra desk command for this cue: grandMA2 syntax or macros.
Fade (s) · Delay (s)	Seconds
Hold (s)	Flash cues only
Fader (%) · Fader fade (s)	The stack’s playback fader on the desk. See Fader levels.
Notes	Free text

The header shows the cue’s stack place (3.2) and, with a selection, Editing n cues.
Fields save when you press Enter or leave them. Flat adds Save and Jump to.
Delete cue sits at the foot. ⌘Z undoes it.
Comments: a click on a marker opens the cue’s thread under the fields. Cue and Track tabs. Needs a Helm Cloud sign-in and a pushed show.
× closes the panel and deselects.

Follow playhead

How the view tracks the playhead. One setting for the Sheet strip, the Timeline lanes and the media lanes. Each click sets the view at once, playing or not.

Mode	Click it	While it plays
Static	Shows the whole track	Holds still. Zoom in by hand and the view stays where you put it.
Window	Zooms in (about 30 s from the whole view) with the playhead near the left edge	Holds still. When the playhead leaves it, jumps so the playhead sits 5 % in from the left.
Follow	Zooms in the same way with the playhead centred	Scrolls under the playhead, keeping it centred. At the start and end of the track the playhead moves off centre.

Set it from:

Static · Window · Follow in the transport bar.
View → Follow Playhead.
Right-click the strip → Follow playhead ▸.
F: cycles Static → Window → Follow.

It acts whenever the playhead moves forward: playing, chasing incoming timecode, or stepping it on.

Zooming and pinching never pause it.
Scrolling sideways while it rolls pauses following for 4 s after your last scroll. The mode button shows outlined. Scrolling up and down through the Timeline lanes does not pause it.
Following also resumes when playback starts again, or when you click a mode.
Saved for you, not the show. Window is the default.

Marker scope

Pick which stack Previous Marker and Next Marker step through: every stack, or one.

Click the Scope chip beside Static · Window · Follow. It reads Scope · All stacks or Scope · <stack>.
Pick All stacks, or a stack. The chip takes the stack’s colour.

It applies to every way of stepping markers on Build:

Build → Previous Marker · Next Marker.
The Stream Deck’s Next cue · Previous cue keys while Build is on screen.
next · prev from the grandMA2 plugin.

Rules:

One scope per track, saved on this Mac. The selected track’s scope is the one Live uses for that track too.
Hidden stacks never count, nor stacks in a department switched off in the sheet’s chips. A scoped stack that is hidden or switched off steps All.
Hide or delete the scoped stack: the scope goes back to All stacks, and stays there.
Solo another stack: the scope reads All stacks until the solo ends.
Other ways in: View → Marker Scope (All Stacks, each stack, Next Scope) and the Stream Deck’s Marker scope key. See Marker scope on Live.

Undo

⌘Z · ⇧⌘Z. Edit → Undo · Redo. In a text field they undo the typing instead.
50 steps. The oldest drop off.
One step for each drag, group move, delete, rename, Duplicate…, Beat Builder run, beat group change, tempo change and stack move. Fast nudges fold into one.
No undo: Shift cues…, and the beat-grid edits listed on Beat grid and tempo.
Cleared by a restore from backup, and by a package import that replaces the open show.

A marker won’t drag. ← → do nothing. A toast says Unlock … to edit. The cue’s stack is locked. Click its padlock, or right-click the cue → Unlock ….
No marker drags at all. Tools → Edit → Lock markers is on. Click it off.
Only one cue moved, not the selection. You grabbed a cue outside the selection. A plain click makes it the only one selected. Grab a highlighted cue.
n locked cues left alone. Part of the selection is in a locked stack. Unlock it and do it again.
A group drag stopped short. One cue hit the start or end of the timeline. The whole group stops there.
Move selection to… says Lands before the timeline start or A cue lands past the end of the track. The others keep their spacing from the first. Type a time that keeps them all on the timeline.
Typing a desk cue changed several cues. Several cues were selected: they all get it. Press ⌘Z. Select one cue to change one number.
M did nothing. A toast says … is locked. The active stack is locked. Unlock it, or press A for another stack.
M put the marker in the wrong stack. M always uses the active stack. Check which row has the filled dot.
M and + Mark do nothing, no toast. The audio is still loading. Wait for the waveform.
⌘← ⌘→ say Set a BPM first. The track has no tempo. Set one: Beat grid and tempo.
A session edit came back with … is locked on the host. The host has that stack locked. Ask the host to unlock it.
The view stopped following. You scrolled or zoomed while it rolled. Click the mode, or stop and play again.
Next Marker skips markers. A stack is scoped. Set the Scope chip to All stacks.
The sheet is empty. A search is on, a sector chip is off, or the stacks are hidden or soloed away. Clear the search with Esc, check the chips and the eyes.
Bars and Beats are greyed out in Duplicate…. The track has no BPM. Set one, or use Seconds, Frames or Timecode.
Duplicate made fewer copies than asked. The rest land past the end of the track. Use fewer copies, a shorter interval or an earlier start.
Duplicate says … is locked. Pick another stack. The To stack is locked. Pick another, or unlock it.
Shift cues… moved the wrong stack. It has no undo. Shift it back by the same amount.