Archive for the 'Cool' Category

Sighting: Stage Directions Magazine

Friday, March 30th, 2007

On page 39 of the March issue of Stage Directions Magazine you’ll find a shout out from Temple University:

Minor point deduction for miscapitalization, but hey, I won’t hold it against ‘em.

QLab powers award-winning design

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Congratulations to Dave Mickey, who just won the Robert E. Cohen Sound Achievement Award from USITT for Looming Bias!
As you may recall from its appearance on this very blog, QLab was the master controller for sound, lights, and the interactive elements of Dave’s design.
Congrats Dave!

Sighting: Amsterdam High School of the Arts

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Those of you not on the QLab mailing list may not be aware that there’s an exciting new plugin coming out soon: the Video Cue.
This cue is in the final stages of beta testing, but a few brave souls have already used it in the wild. One of the first was Tom Rijndorp, an [...]

Sighting: Looming Bias interactive installation

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Dave Mickey writes:

Looming Bias was an interactive, installation, Dance Performance Art Piece that took place in Pasadena California, Oct 21, 2006. The central element of the sound design was based on the interactive sound programmed using Max/MSP, Teleo, and QLab. QLab, which was the master cue list, controlled which triggers Max/MSP should have [...]

Sighting: Royal Television Society Awards

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Oliver Driver writes:

Here’s a photo from a show I did last night - the Royal Television Society Awards in the UK [...] As ever QLab performed flawlessly - you can just see in the photo QLab running on a main machine and a backup ( never required but always running! ).

Thanks Oliver! Click the [...]

Sighting: Globe Holiday Tree Lighting

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Tip o’ the hat to Paul Peterson:

We expected around 1,000 people and more than 3,000 showed up! All cues were run flawlessly on a Powerbook using QLab with a MOTU 828.

Globe Holiday Tree Lighting, 2006
(Be sure to listen to the sound of the tree lighting up…)

Happy Birthday QLab!

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

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Sighting: QLab in Norway

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

Erik Hedin, designer for the Norwegian national touring company, writes:

This is from an evening in Drammens theatre, just outside Oslo, Norway. The G4 is running QLab and LIVE. A few hundred in the audience.

Thanks for the photo Erik!

1.0.0 Available

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

…I’ve been waiting to write that subject line for a while now.
Yes, folks, 1.0 has arrived. The long months of beta testing have come to a close. With the debut of 1.0 comes the new online store, where you can purchase licenses to add new features and unlock additional plugins. Our inaugural [...]

Yes, Virginia, string constants can bring joy

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

I’m approaching the final major checkpoint between me and QLab Pro version 1.0. Namely, I’m finishing up the MIDI Show Control cues.
This work involves the coolest list of strings I’ve ever had the honor of writing into a piece of code.
It’s hard to explain why this is so thoroughly wonderful. Maybe you have [...]