Auto Advance Memo Cues

[Nicholas Ryan]

Hello, 

I am working on a show, and I want to divide the cue list up visually (essentially by the scenes of the show) in order to keep things more understandable for me and the operator. I am currently using memo cues since they mostly fit the organizational intent, but I don't want the operator to have to trigger the playhead over the memo cue to reduce demands on them. The only way I can think to do this is to have a Go To cue in the group above the memo cue to advance past the memo. However, this adds additional complexity that outweighs its benefits in my opinion. Is there any way to have the playhead advance past the memo cue automatically? The skip if disarmed function does what I want, but the visual cover to the cue makes it not workable for this purpose. Do you have any ways to do this?

I also looked at using Start First and Enter Group cues, but this adds too much visual clutter with the indentation and box. 

Any thoughts would be appreciated. 

Thank you. 

[Chris Ashworth]

Hi Nicholas,

You can use auto-continue to do this:

[Nicholas Ryan]

Hello, 

Thank you for the help. That does what I was looking for. I'm not the biggest fan of it being a feature of the cue above and not the memo cue since where the auto-continue is would have to be updated if more cues were added in the scene or cues were rearranged. I can certainly use auto-continue once cues are mostly finalized though to minimize that. 

Thank you. Have a nice day!

[micpool]

In QLab 5.5 you can skip disarmed cues.

When you set up a disarmed skipped cue it is overprinted with a wavy pattern which  makes it ideal as a scene divider!

[Nicholas Ryan]

Hello, 

Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't want to use that method since the wavy pattern makes the text in the memo cue harder to read. 

It sounds like there isn't currently a way to fit exactly what I'm looking for, but a few ways to make it workable. 

Thank you. Have a nice day!

[Charlie Pilzer]

Correct. 

However, you could insert an additional disarmed skipped memo as a scene divider in front of your memo cue to make it more noticeable.

Charlie Pilzer

On Oct 19, 2025, at 12:16 PM, Nicholas Ryan <illuminated...@gmail.com> wrote:

I didn't want to use that method since the wavy pattern makes the text in the memo cue harder to read. 

[Paul]

I would use Group cue rather than a Memo cue for this. 

The group can be start first and doesn't have to contain any auto follow - if the group has cues which need an operator spacebar go then the group will open when the first cue is run.  You can add cue name and notes to group cue as you would a memo cue and it avoids the disarmed cue look.

[Moskvarium Sound]

Hi!
I'm using the OSC command "/playhead/nextSequence" to localhost. Then, in the appropriate group, I'll add a start cue with the target to this command.
Sorry for my Google Translate.

понедельник, 20 октября 2025 г. в 19:25:20 UTC+3, Paul: