Feedback loop

Rounds & takes.

A round is a feedback session over a track or a collection. Notes anchor to exact timestamps; new bounces stack as takes; nothing gets lost.

Open a round

Two paths:

  • Workspace-wide: /rounds → Start a round → pick any tracks from the library, name it, go.
  • Scoped to a collection: open the collection → Rounds tab → Start a round on this collection.

Drop notes at the moment

Inside a round, every track has a player with a marker bar. Press Play, then hit + Note at X:XX the second you hear something worth flagging. The composer opens with the timestamp frozen — you can keep listening while you type without losing the anchor.

Markers on the bar jump to the exact moment when clicked. The scrubber, the marker, the comment, the timestamp all stay linked.

Voice notes

Click hold to record in the composer. A live level meter shows the mic is working. Release to finish. The file uploads, our worker transcribes it via OpenAI's Whisper (gpt-4o-mini-transcribe), and the text appears under the audio player within a few seconds.

See the voice notes article for the full flow.

Takes

When you upload a new bounce of a track that's already in the round, Cue stacks it as a take. The visual deck on the round detail card shows a small paper-stack effect with the latest take on top. Click the takes pill or the back card to fan out the chooser; pick any take to flip the player.

Notes anchor to the canonical track. They survive every take. The "noted on Take 3" pill on each comment tells you which version the listener heard when they made the remark.

Switching takes is gapless — Cue pre-warms every alt take's audio so the player swap feels like a tape-deck button instead of a buffer wait. AB-compare your mixes without losing your place.

Replies, resolve, delete

Each comment has a reply action that opens an inline composer right under the parent — same shape Basecamp uses. Replies share the parent's anchor; they don't drop their own marker.

Hit mark resolved when the next take addresses a note. Resolved notes go grayscale and tuck out of the active conversation. Delete removes the note (your own only — others' notes are theirs to delete).

Rounds & takes. · Cue docs