QLab

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.

 

QLab is powerful macOS software for designing and playing back sound, video, light, and show control cues. It’s a flexible, reliable, and user-friendly tool used by everyone from Provincetown Repertory Theatre to Dana H. on Broadway.

 

QLab offers one central place to build your sound, video, lighting, and show control cues. Create intricate designs and have the flexibility to change them quickly. Collaborate remotely with other designers on a single workspace, or sync across departments using our show control features. When you’re done designing, run the whole show just by pressing the “GO” button.

 

Audio

Trusted by sound designers all over the world, QLab is the best software for creating and playing back audio cues for live events. Need to play a thunderclap for a school play? Drag and drop your audio file into the workspace and you’re ready to go. Need to send up to 128 channels of audio output to a custom speaker array?

No problem: QLab has matrix-based audio routing and multi-channel audio support. QLab also has audio effects chains, support for Dante, AVB, and NDI, sophisticated mixing tools, and much more.

 

Video

QLab is a reliable and flexible way to design and run your projections. Play full screen videos and images, or customize the geometry for projection mapping. QLab offers up to 1,000 video layers, chained video effects, per-cue blend modes, text cues, NDI and Syphon for video input and output, and more.

We rewrote our video engine from scratch for QLab 5, utilizing Apple’s new Metal framework and vastly increasing the power and flexibility of our video features.

WHAT’S NEW

Version 5.6.3:

• Added: In the Light Library or Light Definition editor, rows now display in a different color if one of the instrument definitions inside that row is misconfigured.

• Added: