How to Use Cues in NeonWaves to Navigate Audio Faster
Scrolling through a long waveform to find one specific moment is a waste of time. NeonWaves solves this with the feature built for navigating and organizing audio faster: Cues.
So here’s how to use it to find any part of your audio!
Or you can also simply watch this video here:
What Are Cues?
Cues are markers you place at specific points in your audio, so you can jump straight back to them instead of searching through the entire waveform.
How to Add a Cue: Step-by-Step
- Drag and drop your audio file into NeonWaves.
- Select the range you want to remember.
- Click Cue Selection or use the shortcut F8 to add a Cue at your cursor position.
NeonWaves creates a marker at that point in your waveform, ready to revisit whenever you need it.
Mark important parts of an audio waveform with cues
Managing Your Cues in the Cue List
Once you’ve added a few cues, go to Options, then Cue List to see all of your markers in one place. From here, you can:
- Add more selections or cues
- Delete cues you no longer need
- Rename cues to keep them organized
- Jump to the previous or next cue and listen to it directly
This gives you a fast way to move between important parts of your audio without scrubbing through the whole waveform every time.
Add and manage audio cues, markers, and selected ranges
Exporting Your Cues
Cues aren’t just for navigation — you can export them too. From the Cue List, you can:
- Click Save Audio to export each cue as a separate WAV file
- Save your markers as a Cue Sheet to export them in the Cue format
This is useful when you need individual sections of a longer recording as standalone files, or when you want a Cue Sheet to reference alongside the original audio.
Final Thoughts
Cues give you a simple way to navigate, organize and find any part of your audio faster in NeonWaves. Once you build the habit of dropping a Cue as you edit, finding your way back through a long recording stops being a chore.
But you also want to keep your recordings clean from the start without background noise? Then find out how to do it here: How to remove background noise while recording on your Mac.
You will also find all of the audio editing tutorials here: All Tutorials.
