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Cue Points
Often a soloist must give a visual cue to coordinate an entrance or other important event. For example, if the soloist and accompaniment both play together after a fermata, or if the piece begins with both soloist and accompaniment together, visual cues are the usual means of communication between players. Of course, M+O only listens to your playing and cannot see what you do, so the program uses Cue Points, set in the Set Tempo form, for these situations.
A Cue Point can only be set at a solo note position. When a cue is set, the accompaniment will wait until the corresponding solo note is "heard" by M+O before playing its part. If the accompaniment and soloist should enter together, the accompaniment will be a little late in such a case, since the solo note must sound for an instant before M+O can detect it. However, this is usually the best way to coordinate situations where a human accompanist would need a visual cue.
While Cue Points are necessary in certain situations, they should be avoided when possible since they decrease M+O's ability to achive accurate synchronization.
It is often desirable to set a cue point at a solo note that does not have a corresponding accompaniment note. In this case the accompaniment cannot play anything after the cue point until it has heard the cue. This is useful in cases where the accompaniment mistakenly enters early during a solo-only passage, such as a cadenza.