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QLab provides live show control for your Mac. Create media designs for theatre, dance, composition, installation, and more. Play back audio, video, and MIDI from a single workspace.
The basic version of QLab is free and provides a powerful audio playback environment. If you require advanced functionality licenses are available to unlock additional features.
The basic version of QLab is free and provides a powerful audio playback environment. If you require advanced functionality licenses are available to unlock additional features.
What's New
Version 2.3.7:
- FIXED: A rounding bug that could lead to an invalid initial value when fading over MIDI values.
- FIXED: The sample rate of audio output devices is now honored.
- FIXED: QLab will now warn you that long MP3 files may not play correctly.
- ADDED: Help menu item for emailing support.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later
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| Downloads:15,405 |
| Version Downloads:862 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Audio |
| License:Free |
| Date:27 Feb 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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QLab provides live show control for your Mac. Create media designs for theatre, dance, composition, installation, and more. Play back audio, video, and MIDI from a single workspace.
The basic version of QLab is free and provides a powerful audio playback environment. If you require advanced functionality licenses are available to unlock additional features.
The basic version of QLab is free and provides a powerful audio playback environment. If you require advanced functionality licenses are available to unlock additional features.
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Djmouse reviewed on 04 Sep 2011
I have used this for our amateur theatre group for the last 3 years and it works flawlessly.
The free version is great! I used this for ages but finally upgraded to the pro version just because I wanted to use the midi integration.
The software not only plays back the sound file, but also sends midi commands to the desk to raise the fader and lower the fader when the sound has stopped playing. It never fails to impress.
The only negative is some of the more simple commands can take a while to get your head around. For example cross fading tracks into each other. However they now have some great tutorials on the website, I would suggest watching these before you start using the software as it covers the basics well.
The software is expensive, but is aimed at professionals and does much more than cheeper alternatives. The free version is great for amateur groups for simple audio playback.
Just one final thing next time you go to the theatre have a look what software the sound engineer is using, if they have a mac it will have Qlab on it!
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Gruberman reviewed on 21 Jul 2011
Since this was my first foray into theater (my primary field of expertise is music for film and TV), I was using my MacBook Pro and a portable sub-mixer (for added control) to run the sound cues via iTunes; with my other hand I was pushing the pause button on a DVD player. And I would be cueing the lighting operator at the same time, typically sitting next to me.
It worked, I got by with it … but it was not an elegant solution. And if we were in a particularly cramped booth (aren't they all?) it was even more unwieldy.
NOW… thanks to QLab? All I need is my MacBook Pro. Everything is handled through the software, we never see a little "play" or "pause" graphic on the screen (all DVD players do them), and I can hit visual and audio cues with laser-sharp accuracy… even down to a SYLLABLE inside a word my wife is saying! It's everything I always wanted, and didn't realize it.
As we are about to do the show for a solid month, every day at 5:30 pm at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — and I've already been informed the booth barely holds one person — you can see what a relief QLab is going to be. Having the greatest accuracy and flexibility imagineable, and at the same time the smallest equipment footprint I've ever had, is truly a lifesaver. I also told my wife, Ellen Snortland, that it is my desire to one day do a show with her that takes advantage of at least HALF of everything QLab can do. Right now we're running at about 1/4th! :-)
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Ok14me21 reviewed on 07 Dec 2010
Stop looking!
This is your perfect program.
There is no better in this world ;-)
Dbag65 reviewed on 14 Dec 2009
If you need to build sound cues for any purpose (school, church, presentation, dance, theatre) QLab is the answer.
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Christians reviewed on 26 Nov 2009
Five full stars for being free.
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Jean-Marie reviewed on 18 Mar 2009
Even the free version is powerfull enough for a performance with loads of cues, overlapings and stuff (audio, video..).
You can feed it with any file format supported by QuickTime.
It is very stable (installed for me on a MacBook, never had a single problem). It's full of very usefull details but the interface is clear and uncluttered (and customizable). Can be entirely driven through the keyboard through personalized shortcuts.
For more advanced features, the paying version will be needed. But for a small structure, a theater company with limited finances, the free version is more than enough.
And if you go for the paying version, you pay only for the additional modules you actually need (pro audio, pro video or pro midi). You don't pay for tons of features you will never use. And if you have a very small budget, you can even rent those modules for a limited time for $3 a day each ! They also have discount for educational licensing. Intelligent, professional and classy.
May the developpers of this app be blessed !
(ps: sorry for my poor english)
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organik reviewed on 16 Oct 2008