Cue Deck Mode

Cue Deck turns the phone into a bank of large, physical-feeling trigger pads for firing cues into TouchDesigner by hand — no AR, no camera, no sensors. It’s the app’s answer to a TouchOSC control panel, but it reuses TDLiDAR’s own always-on OSC connection instead of a second app or a separate config file.

The pads

Cue Deck starts with 4 pads, laid out edge-to-edge across the screen in a 2-column grid so each one is a large, easy target — deliberately not a dense 16-button grid. A + button adds more pads (extra pads add rows below the first four), and a gear icon opens the full settings editor.

Pressing a pad sends 1 to its OSC address; releasing sends 0 — a clean momentary gate, and a firm haptic tick fires on press so it feels like a real button, not a flat glass tap. Pressing again too soon after a release is silently ignored for that pad’s configured lockout window, and the pad’s border flashes red to show the tap was swallowed, so accidental double-fires from a nervous hand don’t send extra triggers.

Editing pads

Tap the gear to open Cue Deck Settings. Each pad in the list can be tapped to edit:

  • Name — the label shown on the pad.
  • Address — the OSC address it fires (defaults to /tdlidar/cue/<n>, but any address works).
  • Colour — picked from a native colour wheel; purely cosmetic, shown only on the phone.
  • Time between taps — the re-trigger lockout, adjustable from no lockout up to several seconds.

Pads can also be deleted from the same list, and the + button in Settings adds another with the next default name/address/colour.

Network settings

The same Settings sheet has the TouchDesigner OSC section — target IP and port. Cue Deck defaults to port 9000, the same bus the Sensors mode sensors use, so it can share one OSC connection rather than needing a dedicated port.

What you can do with it

Use it as a manual scene-advance button, a blackout switch, a “go” cue for a stage manager, or any trigger that needs to be reliable and reachable from across the room without looking at a laptop. Because every pad is just an OSC address firing 1/0, it drops straight into whatever trigger/logic chain you already have in TouchDesigner.

Needs

Nothing beyond the app’s normal network setup — Cue Deck works on any iPhone, with no LiDAR, TrueDepth or AR requirement.