I want to alert folks to the following bug: http://figure53.com/trac/index.fcgi/ticket/117 My current in-development builds are considerably more stable than the one available for download, but I see no point in making a new release until the problem is completely eradicated. It is an ornery problem that I am working very hard to resolve, and which [...]

This is a bug-fix release that was posted last night. See release notes for details.

I’m home in Louisville for a few days, and had a chance to spend some time down at the old digs (http://www.actorstheatre.org/). Looks like it’s going to be a strong Humana Festival this year. I wish I could be around longer to see it when it really hits its full stride, but what I’ve seen [...]

I’ve done some internal performance profiling for this release, and fine-tuned QLab to make it perform more efficiently. For example, on my PowerBook G4 (1.25 Ghz, 1 Gig RAM), playing 10 stereo wave files concurrently used to produce a load of about 69%-75% CPU usage on my machine. This now has been reduced to a [...]

My last week at the ol’ day job has been the computer programming equivalent of a “ten out of twelve” for six days in a row. But thankfully that’s all over now and I think I’ve managed to sleep myself back into normalcy. A note on the last release: I accidentally broke the pause/play feature [...]