Oh, and a small annoying and productivity-related thing notice that shareware is usually better about adhering to GUI standards? Commercial software tends to use unusual functions for the control keys, hide the menu bars, and won't even permit re-sizing of the application window. The philosophy is to find problems so they can be fixed which is directly opposed to the marketing-driven philosophy of mainstream software that says the way to sell the software is to slap lawsuits on anyone who dares mention it doesn't work very well. The shareware philosophy is to build a product good enough that people will want to support you in return. And not cripple-ware or nagware, either.Īn aside. With all that out of the way, what do you want this for? Well - QLab is easy to understand, plays well with all hardware, plays any file the Mac can play (leveraging QuickTime to do so), takes up very little system overhead.and, oh yeah, the basic version is free.
of which I will say no more less my blog get shut down by angry marketing people. It is also not the only professional-level software for its specific application - Sound Cue System for Windows is in a similar price range, and of course there is SFX. It is also not a Cart Machine (although Figure 53 has a digital one of those, too.) Also, there is no Windows or Linux version (although there are other, similar software tools).
It is not a mixer, a signal processor, or a Digital Audio Workstation. It is from Figure 53 and is designed for use in theater and similar live-playback situations. QLab is audio playback software for the Macintosh.