Last weekend I had the great pleasure of traveling to New York as a sponsor for the 2008 Broadway Sound Master Classes. I had the honor of meeting so many amazing folks, from Scott Lehrer (a QLab user whose work on South Pacific was recently nominated for the first-ever Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Musical), to QLab users and class instructors Michael Bodeen, Rob Milburn and Chris Cronin who gave a fascinating class on moving a production to Broadway, to…well…I can see this list is going to get really long, so I’ll just suffice it to say that I finally got to put many many faces to names, and had a total blast.

And of course it was very fun to attend the award ceremony for 2008 Sound Products of the year. Live Design writes:

Mac users, vocally passionate bunch that they are, finally seem to have a show control product they can rally around, not just in the sound world, but across multiple disciplines. QLab allows you to control audio, video, and MIDI from a single workspace directly from your Mac. Built on Mac’s CoreAudio, every sound cue has its own matrix mixer, allowing you to mix multi-channel sound files to a variety of outputs. QLab supports up to eight channels per file and can route up to 16 channels per output device. “QLab is possibly the best new product in years for audio playback,” says one judge. “It is very intuitive, very affordable, glitch free — from our experience at three shows and counting — and it’s designed by a theatre artist! We think QLab has a wonderful future.”


    — Live Design Sound Awards Presented at BSMC

Ah shucks. I’m blushing. Well, here’s to many more great years to come!

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