The home screen

The Home screen is where you'll monitor a live DJ performance and, with the Pro subscription, trigger real-time automations. As tracks are loaded and played, Time-line Live automatically updates the interface with live information from the connected DJ equipment.

The Home screen consists of three main panels:

• Decks
• Key Points
• Automations

Decks

The Decks panel displays every compatible DJ player detected on the network.

For each deck you'll see:

• Track title and artist
• Playback progress
• Live waveform
• BPM
• Elapsed time in the track (double click to change to remaining time)
• Deck status
• Whether the deck is currently active

As the DJ loads tracks, changes decks, loops sections or jumps through a track, the Decks panel updates automatically.

Showing or hiding decks

By default, Time-line Live displays all supported DJ players it detects on the network.

If your setup only uses a subset of the available players, click Decks in the toolbar to choose which deck numbers should be shown. Hiding unused decks can make the interface easier to follow during a performance.

Changing waveform appearance

Click Appearance to customize how waveforms are displayed.

Available options include:

• Color waveforms — Display waveforms using Time-line Live’s color-coded Key Points (see also Understanding Key Points)
• Show key point labels — Show or hide the names of detected Key Points on the waveform.
• Highlight active deck — Visually highlight the deck currently playing to the audience.
• Waveform zoom — Zoom the waveform in or out horizontally to adjust the level of detail displayed.

Key Points Requires Pro

The Key Points panel displays the Key Points detected by Time-line's machine learning model. Example: Drop, Breakdown, Pre-Drop, Fake Drop, Build, Rhythmic Build, etc.

For each Key Point, you'll see:

• The type of musical event
• A countdown until the next Key Point starts

Automations Requires Pro

The Automations panel lets you manage the automation flows. From this panel you can:

• Enable or disable individual automation flows
• Open Node-RED to create and edit your custom workflows
• Monitor which automations are active during playback

Automations can control lighting, video, special effects and any other system that supports OSC or MIDI.

Next steps

Now that you're familiar with the Home screen, learn more about:

• Understanding Key Points
• Auto Switch
• Setting up Automations