Archive for the 'Cool' Category

Sighting: A Bronx Tale on Broadway

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Award-winning designer John Gromada wrote in yesterday to say:

Tomorrow night ‘A Bronx Tale‘ opens on Broadway with 2 QLab systems running in tandem. This is the first time I have used QLab on Broadway and it has been a resounding success. QLab’s interface is simple and intuitive—allowing complex sequences to be built and modified with [...]

Sighting: Samlege (Denmark)

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Søren Knud Christensen from Denmark recently wrote to say:

Hi there I’m a 19 year old lighting designer from denmark.
OH MY GOOD I LOVE QLAB - i was used to [a PC program] (controlling ETC express and yamaha mixer) and IT SUCKED.
GREAT!

and also sent in this photo of his show “Samlege” at Prøvehallen, Copenhagen:

Thanks Søren!

Sighting: Singapore

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Jimmy from Meyer Sound wrote again to share this shot of QLab in Singapore:

Thanks Jimmy!

Sighting: Grease on Broadway

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Well, it finally happened. QLab had its official Broadway debut today:
http://www.greaseonbroadway.com/
Not too shabby.

Sighting: London’s West End

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Yesterday John Leonard wrote to report:

Last night, QLab made its (probable*) debut in London’s glittering West-End. Screaming crowds surrounded the Duke Of York’s Theatre in St. Martin’s Lane, blocking the road as the smitten hordes tried to get a glimpse of the star of this production.
OK, most of this is true, except I suspect the [...]

Show them senior sound engineers what’s up

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Joel Adria, a high school student in Edmonton Alberta, Canada, recently wrote to say:

Thank you so much for making this incredible program.
I was assigned a One Act play this year that I dubbed “The Death Play” for having so many sound effects one after another.
After thinking there must be a better way than loading CDs, [...]

LOLQLABCAT

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

The feature requests just keep on coming.

Shout out: Steve Bentley. Image credit: snej.

Sighting: Broad Minds

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

Jevon Hills of Broad Minds Productions recently wrote to say:

Your product is wonderful, I’m on closing night of my production for which I used QLab for soundscape and video projections. I’ve been showing off to several other theatre companies in Calgary…
I ran sound and a combination of stills, still montages, and movies off [...]

Sighting: The Guggenheim

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Noah Mehl recently sent some photos of a show he did at the Guggenheim with choreographer Luca Veggetti. Noah writes:

Three pieces, two of them with projections. All were influenced heavily by Noh theater. The two we did were:
Traces — Projected on the ceiling to match the movements of the dancers. QLab [...]

Sighting: Live Design Magazine—and a note to the Apple Engineers

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Live Design magazine just wrote up a great little piece on the new video features: QLab Debuts Video: The Mac App Garden Grows. Jake Pinholster writes:

Figure 53’s QLab software for Mac OS X has gotten some attention lately—though probably not enough—for its live, timeline-based audio playback. [...] But the reason QLab makes it [...]