Countdown and show control for live events
The last minute runs itself.
Taiko Cue puts a countdown on the wall, a clock in front of your speaker, and every show
action on one keystroke. At sixty seconds the whole screen changes with no operator input —
because that is the moment you are least free to be looking at a laptop.
REQUEST ACCESS
By invitation while in private trial. Seven days, watermarked.
The real stage screen, running here. Nothing on this page is a screenshot.
Two clocks
A room and a person need different promises.
Most timers have one clock at two sizes. Taiko Cue has two, because what you tell a room and
what you tell the person on stage are different facts — and the day they disagree is the day
the show goes wrong.
Three screens
Three words, and they never change.
The same three names in the interface, the URLs, the display map and every label. An operator
reading a label and a technician reading a setting never have to translate between them.
Nobody else ever sees it
OPERATOR
The control centre. One screen, three columns — the audience's, the speaker's, and your
own — and every control sits in the column of the screen it affects.
The audience
STAGE
The wall on arrival and between breaks. Sixteen looks, all resolution-independent: the
same screen fills 1080p and 4K identically, with no separate build.
The person on stage
SPEAKER
Their clock, their messages, who is next. A coloured band at the edge of the screen warns
them without a glance — a boundary changing colour is readable mid-sentence.
Ten keys
You never navigate. You press one key.
No menu to open, no dialog to dismiss. Shift is always the speaker's: if a key does something
for the room, shift does it for the person on stage.
SPACE run the room's clock
⇧SPACE run the speaker's
↑ ↓ time, ⇧ for five
R reset
B blackout
N next speaker
⇧S fire the 60s stinger
1 2 3 house calls
T template
V send a screen out
- A house call chimes, puts the words on the wall, and speaks them aloud — all three on one
key, because a tone turns a room's head and the words have to arrive while it is still turned.
- Show Lock refuses a reset and refuses blacking a room out, so a stray hand cannot end a
show. It never refuses bringing the room back.
Stream Deck
Plug it into USB. It programs itself.
Taiko Cue talks to a Stream Deck directly. It reads the model over USB, sizes a layout to
however many keys it has, draws every key face, and remembers that board for that deck. Press
a key while the editor is open and that is the key you are editing — you point at it with a
finger instead of counting grid positions on a screen.
RUN
HOLD
RESET
−1 MIN
+1 MIN
FIRE
60s
SPEAKER
START
SPEAKER
RESET
−1 MIN
+1 MIN
NEXT
SPEAKER
10 MIN
CALL
5 MIN
CALL
TAKE
SEATS
BLACK
OUT
CLEAR
Top row — the audience's clock
Middle — the speaker's
Bottom — the house calls
- No Elgato software, no installer, no admin rights, no registry.
- Keys carry the show, not labels: the run key lights while the clock runs, and a key can
hold either clock live.
- Every action shows its keyboard equivalent, so the deck teaches the keyboard — and a deck
that dies mid-show leaves you able to finish by hand.
What it does not need
A venue's wifi is not a dependency.
NOTHING TO INSTALL
It runs in a browser. Two windows on one laptop drive the projector and the confidence
monitor, kept in step with no server between them.
WORKS OFFLINE
Fonts are self-hosted, the audio is generated rather than fetched, and nothing on the
page reaches the network. Unplug it and run the show.
4K, NO SEPARATE BUILD
Every dimension is a proportion of the screen, so the wall gets the same picture at 1920
and at 3840 — no re-export, no second set of assets.
THE FINAL MINUTE, COMPOSED
Three beds — a taiko ostinato, four-on-the-floor, and a cinematic climb — each exactly
sixty seconds, generated so the last beat lands on 00:00 to the sample.
Try it
Seven days, watermarked, by invitation.
The trial is the whole product — every template, both clocks, the house calls, the
Stream Deck. It carries a watermark on the outputs and runs five minutes at a time,
because a timer that says TRIAL on a client's confidence monitor is not something
anyone should ship a show with by accident. Currently handed out on request rather
than self-serve — get in touch and it's on its way the same day.
- In the browser — one click, and the dual-display sync works: open the
projector window and the confidence monitor and watch them stay in step.
- Or a single HTML file you open by double-clicking. No server, no installer,
no admin rights. Opened from disk a browser gives a page no origin, so the two
windows cannot talk to each other there — everything else works.
One screen. Ten keys. No menus.
Built for the people who run the room, not for the people who demo the software.