Welcome to CueCart

What CueCart is, who it's for, and the handful of ideas that make it tick.

Getting Started · Updated 2026-10-06

CueCart is a broadcast-grade audio cartwall for Windows — a grid of pads that fire your preloaded audio the instant you hit them. Stings, beds, jingles, drops, sound effects, music: one tap (or one key) and it plays, with no spin-up. It's built for live, time-critical work where "almost instant" isn't good enough.

Who it's for

• Radio & broadcast — jingles, beds, news carts and show opens.
• Live events & front-of-house — walk-ons, stingers and playback cues.
• Theatre & stage — sound cues fired on the line.
• Houses of worship — service playback and transitions.
• Podcast & streaming — drops, idents and segment beds.

The ideas behind CueCart

A few concepts run through the whole app. Once these click, everything else follows:

• Set — your show, saved as a single .cuecart file. It holds all your banks, cues, colours and settings. Open one and you're ready to play.
• Bank — a named page of pads within a Set (for example Jingles, Beds, Music). You arrange your show across banks and switch between them live.
• Cue Pad — a single pad that plays one audio clip. It carries its own name, colour, volume, fades and playback behaviour.
• DJ workspace — Deck A, Mixer and Deck B, with separate playlists, SYNC, performance pads and an A/B crossfader.
• Library — CueCart's internal organisation of your media, kept separately from how the files happen to sit on disk.
• Package — a portable .cuecartpkg that bundles a Set and its audio, so you can move a whole show to another machine.

What you need

• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
• An audio output device — your built-in output is fine to get started; a dedicated audio interface gives you the lowest latency and headphone cueing.

Local playback works offline once your audio is prepared and your licence is valid. Trial/activation checks, updates and the initial Stems model download need internet access. Stems processing uses the downloaded model locally. If you choose Connect for Icecast broadcasting, CueCart transmits programme audio to your configured server.

Where to next

• Getting started — install and fire your first cue.
• The main window at a glance — a tour of every part of the screen.
• Licensing & activation — your free trial and one-time licence.