Cue Points

Bookmarks in your tracks for precise timing.

Cue points are the chapter markers of your tracks. Set them well and you'll never lose your spot.

+50 XP

// WHAT IT DOES

A cue point is a saved location in a track — press a button and you jump there instantly.

Memory cues are stored navigation points; hot cues (1–8) are colourful instant-jump buttons on the deck.

Set them on intros, drops, breakdowns and outros — the structural moments you mix from.

Think of it like → Bookmarks in a book. You don't read every chapter from page 1 — you jump to the bits you need.

▸ WHY YOU CARE

No simulator for this mission — read & quiz only.

▸ HOW IT WORKS

▸ Signal flow — watch the dot

▸ SIGNAL FLOW

Glowing dot = your signal travelling through Live.

▸ LISTEN FOR

▸ WALKTHROUGH (5 steps)

1. DO: Load a track in rekordbox and play it through.
▸ LISTEN: Note where the intro ends, where the first drop hits, where the breakdown starts.
2. DO: Pause exactly on the first of the intro and click MEMORY (or hot cue 1).
▸ LISTEN: A marker appears on the waveform — that's cue 1.
3. DO: Find the drop, hit MEMORY again as hot cue 2, colour red.
▸ LISTEN: Now you have intro + drop saved.
4. DO: Enable Quantize and re-trigger to confirm cues snap to the beat.
▸ LISTEN: Triggers land tight on the kick.
5. DO: Export to USB; on the CDJ, hot cues light up automatically.
▸ LISTEN: You can now start the track at any structural point with one button.

▸ COMMON MISTAKES

✗ Setting too many cues — 8 is enough; clutter slows decisions.
✗ Not labelling — 'red cue 3' tells you nothing in a panic.
✗ Setting cues on phrase boundaries that are 1 bar off — always verify by triggering live.

Question 1 / 40 correct

A cue point in DJing is