Built because I needed it.

I mix live shows for a living. For years, playback meant choosing between tools that were too much and tools that were not enough: software crammed with features I never touched, licenses that cost more than the gig paid, and interfaces where one wrong click during a show meant silence — or worse, the wrong track at full volume.

What I actually needed was simple to say and hard to find. Load the set. Trim the tracks. Put a loop where the band might need more time. Write myself a note for the tricky transition. And then, during the show, exactly one decision at a time: GO.

So I built it. First just for myself — a small engine that looped without clicks and never let me break anything while an audience was listening. It ran show after show, and it kept growing: MIDI timecode for the lighting desk, controller mapping, volume automation, a beat grid so loops always land on the bar.

At some point the engineers I share stages with started asking what I was running — and whether they could have it. That's when SonaCue stopped being a private tool. If it makes your show calmer the way it made mine, it should be on your machine too.