Playing and Setting Cues
The “current cue” is a specific range of music that plays when you click the Cue button in the
Transport window or press the C key. You determine the current cue by your
most recent action—whatever range of music you most recently played or selected becomes the
current cue. Selecting or playing a new range erases the old cue and creates a new,
current cue. You can save a cue into four different locations, which you set
up and are not dependent on the most recent action. These cues remain as you
set them unless you overwrite them by setting a new cue. You can set 4
different cues.
To select and play the current cue:
- Click the Arrow Tool icon in the Graphic Editor window to turn the cursor into
the Arrow Selection Tool.
- Drag in the Graphic Editor window’s Notes display (or within other Data Type display modes) across the desired
range.
- Play the cue by clicking the Cue button in the Transport window or by pressing
the C key.
If you play back or select a different range, that range becomes the current
cue.
To set a cue:
- Select a region by dragging across a range in the Graphic Editor window’s Notes display (or within other Data Type display modes of the Graphic
Editor).
- Click the Set button in the Transport window.
- Click one of the four numbered Cue buttons.
Metro saves the current cue in the location (1 through 4) that you choose.
To playback stored cues:
- Click the numbered button (under the Set button in the Transport window)
associated with the desired range, then click the Cue button.

The only way to erase an existing cue is to overwrite it by setting a new one.
The next step in our tutorial is Looping Playback of Your Track.