ØJE CUE MONITOR
A real-time LTC cue system, built in one week, that kept twenty shows of a stadium tour locked to the same clock — across departments, devices and roles.
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challenge
Seven days before the opening of Yll Limani's TSN Tour 2026 — two sold-out 5,000-cap nights in Zurich, the start of a stadium-scale run — there was no cue system on the table that fit the show. The show is driven by LTC from a stage Ableton laptop. Multiple departments need to follow the same timeline at the same moment: FX, audio, lighting, VJ, director, broadcast, stage management, backline, artist team. Each in their own role. Off-the-shelf options didn't fit. QLab or CuePilot is built around itself as the master clock — but the master here lives on stage, not on a cue desk. Cuepilot is closer in spirit but assumes a different operator surface and a different licensing model. Neither tool serves a filtered view to nine roles on nine devices on a local network. As the risk on a tour at this scale isn't measured in refund clauses — here was no margin to fail on opening night.
solution
ØJE Studio's working principle is short: if the right tool doesn't exist, build it. Instead of stretching adjacent tools to almost-fit, we built the missing piece directly. One week. Concept to two native builds running on the tour's machines. CUE MONITOR reads LTC from the stage clock, follows the show's actual timeline, and surfaces the active cue to every team at once — each team seeing only what's relevant to them. Cues are matched by timecode hit, not list order, so the show survives skips, restarts and the small reorderings every tour goes through between rehearsal and night three. Each department gets its own column or its own filtered view. Lighting doesn't read backline notes. Management doesn't see cue numbers. Broadcast doesn't see internal production comments. A built-in web remote serves the same view to any device on the local network — iPhones, iPads, laptops — password-protected, no install. Artist management can follow the show live from the production office, the dressing room or the floor, in the form that's relevant to them. The stage sends the clock. CUE MONITOR listens. Every department follows.
details
CUE MONITOR was developed in one week before the start of Yll Limani's TSN Tour 2026 — first stadium-scale run, opening with two sold-out 5,000-cap nights in Zurich.
Within the project, ØJE Studio was responsible for the full system — concept, real-time architecture, UI design, native macOS and Windows builds, cross-platform delivery on the schedule the tour demanded.
Across the tour, every department worked from one shared real-time reference instead of static PDFs, separate spreadsheets and radio calls. Less radio traffic. Faster coordination. Fewer of the small confusions that compound across a 90-minute show. The less visible result — the one that matters to artist management — was that the show became more legible. Anyone in the team could glance at any device and know exactly where the show was and what was happening next in their lane.
Operators left notes against specific cues during the show. Between dates, the team used those notes to refine pacing. Each show was a little tighter than the last.
"We were in our own seats, watching the show, and we could feel the whole production breathing in sync. That feels like uncomfortable awesome." — from a tour partner on the TSN Tour
After the opening leg, ØJE released CUE MONITOR as v1.0 beta, open source, so smaller crews on similar-format shows can use the same workflow without paying for tooling that doesn't fit.
The tool being free is not the offering. The offering is what surrounds it on a tour — systems thinking, speed, calls made on the road. The tool is proof of how we work.
If you're at the point in an artist's calendar where the next tour is the one that has to land — talk to ØJE. Not about software. About the show.
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year
2026
timeframe
April
tools
Python · PyQt6 libltc (SMPTE/LTC decoder) aiohttp + WebSocket (web remote) PyInstaller (macOS .app · Windows .exe) Cross-platform native bundles
category
Lab
credits
ØJE Studio — software development, real-time systems & cross-platform delivery
Yll Limani — artist
Three60 — artist management
LABAS KRABAS — broadcast
A deeply collaborative team throughout the show's preparation and ongoing run.
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