Cue · for music people
Present, review, run rounds.
Cue is the workspace for music in motion. Send a catalog to a sync supervisor. Listen through your own mixes and leave yourself notes. Run a feedback round with your engineer or your client — timestamped, voice-recorded, automatically rewritten in mixing-engineer language. Three jobs, one workspace.
no card, no commitment. takes about a minute to see what we're talking about.
From the Narrows
3 takes ▼Take 3 (latest) · 3:59
0:14 · sam (guest)
kick lacks transient definition; tighten the attack.
0:44 · 🎤 voice · transcribed
this part needs more space — vocals up, reverb down.
Three jobs. One workspace.
Cue replaces three different tools you're using right now.
Most music software picks one of these. We built one for all three because the work moves between them all day. Here's who each is for and what it replaces.
01
job
for sync supervisors, A&R, artist EPK
Catalog & sync
Pitch a body of work. Send a sync reel to a supervisor. Hand a label A&R a private playlist. Build a public artist page when you're ready. Branded, watermarked, revocable.
02
job
for producers + mixers + engineers
Self-review
Listen through your own mixes and leave yourself notes at exact moments. A scratchpad on every track that survives across versions. Nobody else does this.
03
job
for production teams + clients
Rounds
A feedback session over a track or a collection. Timestamped notes, voice notes, transcribed automatically, rewritten in engineer-speak with one click. Replies thread.
Catalog & sync
Send your music like a label, not like a folder.
Build a catalog. Group it into a sync reel. Send it to a supervisor with a watermarked, branded link. Track who's listening. Revoke when the deal closes. Cue covers the catalog-and-share work the way the standard catalog tools do — with one upgrade: the same surface where you pitch is the same surface where you can run a feedback round on the shortlist.
- Library: every track you've ever uploaded, with ID3 / metadata read on upload (ISRC, BPM, year, lyrics, writers).
- Collections: ordered playlists for a purpose. Same track lives in many.
- Presentations: branded EPK-shaped pages at /p/<slug>. Cover image, description, ordered tracks, your accent color, your wordmark.
- Watermarked playback URLs — every share mints a unique fingerprint at play time. Leak detection, no ceremony.
- Per-recipient share tokens with names, emails, password protection, expiry dates.
- CSV import + export of the whole catalog. No lock-in.
presentation
Spring '26 sync reel
Eight new pieces — film, indie, doc-tinged. ISRCs in the metadata; one-page splits available on request.
- play01From the NarrowsQZWV325207443:59
- play02Modeh AniQZWV325207343:42
- play03HareshutQZWV325207575:18
- play04Big HugQZWV325207392:58
Self-review
Listen through your own mixes. Leave yourself notes that stay put.
Open any track. Press play. Hit + note at 1:42 the second you hear something. Type it, voice-record it, hit save. Cue holds the note at the exact musical moment forever. Upload v2, the note travels with the song. Resolve it when you address it.
Most catalog tools stop at "you can comment on a file." Cue anchors the comment to the second, keeps it across takes, and gives you the same review surface a producer shares with their mixer — for one. The scratchpad you wish you had in Logic.
- One scratchpad per track in the library.
- Notes anchor to the moment, not the file. Survive every bounce.
- Voice notes record + transcribe automatically.
- Hone: rewrite a casual self-note into industry vocab.
- Resolve when you fix it. The list keeps shrinking.
track scratchpad · From the Narrows
- 0:18verse vox is a hair late at the "before you go" line — nudge 10ms earlier
- 0:50kick decay too long — fixed in v2resolved
- 1:52ride is too forward in the bridge; pull it back ~3dB
- 3:05🎤 voice · transcribed: "the outro feels short — see if we can extend the pad another 4 bars"
4 notes · 1 resolved · just for me.
Rounds
Notes anchor to the moment. Takes stack like paper.
A round is a feedback session over a track or a collection. Markers on the scrubber jump to the exact moment. Voice notes transcribe automatically. Replies thread under the parent like Basecamp messages. Upload a new bounce and Cue stacks it as a take — the conversation survives, with a "noted on take 3" pill so listeners know which version got the remark.
- Markers on the scrubber jump to the exact moment.
- Voice notes record + transcribe via Whisper automatically.
- Replies thread under the parent — like Basecamp messages.
- Take 4 lands? Notes stay where they belong with the take pill.
- Resolve a note when the next take addresses it.
- AB-compare takes mid-listen; gapless swap, no buffer wait.
From the Narrows
3 takes ▼0:34 · creator
piano's bite is harsh — soften the upper-mids.
reply · sam (guest)
agreed — i'll pull 3-5kHz down 2dB on the next take.
1:06 · 🎤 voice · transcribed
mix lacks intimacy — bring vocals forward.
Hone
Your client says "it hurts my ears." We say it your way.
Voice notes record straight from the page. Cue transcribes them automatically. Then click hone and a single button rewrites the speaker's casual feedback into mixing-engineer language — preserving intent, swapping in real terminology. The original is always one click away.
It only makes sense if you've watched engineers translate "it sounds weird" into something they can actually act on a hundred times.
from
"the piano sounds like it hurts my ears"
to
"the piano's bite is harsh — soften the upper-mids."
from
"vocals feel kind of mushed together"
to
"vocal stack is muddy in the low-mids; carve some 200–400 Hz."
from
"kick isn't punchy enough"
to
"the kick lacks transient definition; tighten the attack."
Powered by GPT-4o-mini. ~$0.0001 per rewrite. Cached forever. Original is preserved on every comment.
record · transcribe · hone
transcript
"the piano sounds like it hurts my ears, especially in the chorus where the chord stacks high"
rewrite
"the piano's bite is harsh, especially in the chorus stack — soften the upper-mids and pull 3–5 kHz down 2 dB."
Sharing that doesn't break trust
Standing links. Watermarked playback. One-click revoke.
Listen + Collab, side by side.
Every round has two canonical links. Listen plays read-only. Collab opens timestamps + voice notes + reply threading. One click each.
Request access without leaving the page.
A guest with the Listen link can ask for Collab right inline. You see the request in the share popover, approve in one click, they're in — with a personalized link that's revocable.
Watermarked playback URLs.
Every share mints a unique audio fingerprint at play time. If a track leaks, you know which link it came from. No watermarking ceremony — it just happens.
Round-scoped or collection-scoped.
Share a single round on a single track, or a whole collection of works-in-progress. Same vocabulary on both sides of the link.
Where Cue is different
Catalog tools end at "share + comment." Cue keeps going.
Disco, Soundee, Drive folders — they're all good at storing files and minting shareable playlists. We're not trying to re-do that part. We do it well, and we kept going. The second half — the actual review and feedback — is where Cue lives.
| Feature | Cue | Catalog tools |
|---|---|---|
| Track catalog with metadata + ID3 read on upload | yes | yes |
| Custom fields per workspace | yes | yes (Pro tier) |
| Branded playlist / EPK pages with watermarked playback | yes | yes (add-on) |
| Password protection + expiring URLs | yes | yes (Pro tier) |
| Per-recipient revocable share tokens | yes | yes |
| Timestamped comments anchored to the second | yes | no |
| Voice notes recorded + transcribed automatically | yes | no |
| AI rewrite of casual feedback into engineer-speak | yes | no |
| Takes that stack with notes that survive across versions | yes | no |
| Reply threading on individual notes | yes | no |
| Self-review scratchpad on every track | yes | no |
| Request-collab-access from a Listen link | yes | no |
| Pricing for unlimited storage on the entry tier | yes (free during early access) | no (1K file cap on most plans) |
We're polite about this. Disco is the standard catalog tool for a reason. If catalog management is your only job, they're a fine choice. If you're also doing the work — mixing, producing, reviewing for sync — you'll feel where they stop. That's where Cue starts.
A small note from us
We made Cue because the existing tools weren't right.
We've spent decades on the producer side and the label side and the A&R side of the music business. Every existing feedback tool was either generic creative-collab software with audio bolted on, or a single-purpose mix-review surface with no way to actually run a catalog. Neither was what working music people needed.
So we built one. Three primitives — library, collection, round — mapped to the three jobs music people actually do. Catalog tools stop at sharing. We kept going. A voice that sounds like a producer talking to another producer. We're not trying to be everything; we're trying to be the thing you reach for when the mix needs notes.
Built quietly by a small team at Soul-Song-LTD. We answer email.
Pricing
Free during early access. Paid plans later.
Use everything. No file caps, no feature paywalls. When we turn paid plans on, you'll get a heads-up and a discount for being early. We're not gating Hone or watermarking behind a tier — they're the work, not bait.
Early access
Free
Everything Cue does today. Library, collections, rounds, presentations, voice notes, Hone, watermarked playback, request-collab. No file cap during early access.
Start freePro (coming)
TBD
Higher catalog limits at scale, custom domains on EPK pages, priority transcription queue, team seats, advanced analytics. We're asking early users what should be in here.
Email us when ready
A note from the maker
Cue is built by music people who got tired of tools that didn't fit the work, and decided to make one that does. It's small, careful, and a little opinionated.
If something feels off — small or large — write us. Every email goes to a human; we reply within a day, usually faster. We'd rather hear it from you than guess.
— Yosef