QLab appears in the October 2007 issue of Live Sound International magazine:

A trip to mid-town Manhattan without taking in a Broadway show would be like skipping Restaurant Row or Ray’s Pizza. With AES’ 123rd Convention in the Big Apple, we visited four top shows to see what equipment is used when the stakes are high.

You’re the One that I Want! was a TV reality series [...] whose winners, Laura Osnes and Max Crumm, won lead roles in the Broadway revival of the musical [Grease] that just opened. The Brooks Atkinson Theater on 47th Street, past the Hotel Edison, is a smaller 1,100-seat theater with a short four-row mezzanine and an eight-row balcony. Grease sound designer Brian Ronan struck gold with last year’s Grey Gardens, Spring Awakening, and this spring’s Curtains.

We met production mixer Mike Farfalla at a matinee and were given a tour of the system.

Sound effects play from Christopher Ashworth’s Mac-based QLab (the basic program is a free download) which uses a pair of MOTU USB 828mkII interfaces for output, and QLab drives the show via MIDI. Four custom MIDI show-control buttons were installed on the PM-1D’s wrist rest.

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