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Hey students! Are you yearning to go to the Broadway Sound Master Classes, but ain’t got the coin?

Well maybe now you do. Figure 53 will be sponsoring two (count ‘em: two!) full student passes to this year’s BSMC.

Here’s what you’ll get

1 ticket to a Broadway show (American Idiot) on Friday May 21
2 days [...]

On Wednesday the business section of the Baltimore Sun ran a great article about QLab and Figure 53.

The reporter, Gus Sentementes, also posted extra notes from the interview on his blog. This includes a video of me attempting to summarize QLab in 60 seconds. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Thanks Gus! (And thanks [...]

Yesterday afternoon we flipped the switch on our brand new website. We hope you like it! There was one acknowledged casualty in this process, which is a mailing list that won’t currently accept incoming mail. Our hosting provider is working to get that sorted.

In the meantime, check out the new stuff!

Streamers is [...]

Gentle Readers,

I feel I owe you something in the way of an update.

It’s not that we’ve been out of touch, exactly. I released QLab 2 six months ago, and in that time my inbox has been graced with thousands of messages. Some days I’d get up at 6 AM, respond to emails [...]

I’m extremely excited to announce the arrival of Sean Dougall as a full-time member of the Figure 53 team.

If you have used QLab 2, you have already benefitted from Sean’s skill. He designed and built QLab’s SMPTE timecode synchronization mechanism and the entire license and authorization system.

I feel extremely lucky to welcome Sean to [...]

2008 is shaping up to be a big year for Figure 53. To celebrate, we asked designer Robi Mookerjee to create a shirt for us. We asked for a design to pull together themes of engineering, theatricality, and ingenuity. Something that reflected creativity and spectacular mechanisms. Something hand-crafted and full of [...]

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 [...]

It seems that Bobby Anderson really hit one out of the park when he designed the new icon for QLab.
I’ve stumbled across several posts on the world wide interweb about his work. The links pretty much sum it up in and of themselves:
http://brisbanecreative.com.au/links/the-most-beautiful-os-x-app-icon-ive-ever-seen/
http://scottkoon.org/2007/08/15/im-in-awe-of-icon-designers/
Lucky me, I got his last icon before he got snapped up [...]

QLab at Oracle Open World, Shanghai.
Philip Barrett recently sent in this photo, writing to say:

Much excitement about QLab from my Beijing & Singapore crew, especially as they are mostly MacBook users.

This was then followed by a kind message from Jimmy Cheong, who wrote to say:

Hi,
I’m Jimmy Cheong, I work as a mixer and system [...]