Lighting designer Matt Mills recently told us about a creative way he is using QLab in his lighting work:

Hello, I was looking at your site and thought I’d tell you how I am using your product. I am the Lighting Director for the band Daughtry and I use QLab to call all my spotlight cues. My lighting console is able to send MIDI so I came up with the idea of having it trigger some prerecorded clips during the show. I’m coming out of my lighting console into my Mac via a USB to Midi adapter, then coming out of my Mac headphone port into my Clear Com base station via a 1/8 to XLR adapter. From there I put that into the program feed of the Clear Com base station. I have QLab configured with all my pre recorded spot calls, about 35 of them, and I have my console triggering them at the appropriate time. It has been working out great, been doing it for about 30 shows now. And the spot light operators love it because there is never an open mic picking up all the audio from the show. Just thought I’d share this with you. Great product, Matt

I thought that was pretty clever. Thanks for sharing it Matt!

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