November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
8h 6m
English
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Getting to Know QLab Sound Control
Sound control has always been a benchmark of QLab and remains one of the greatest strengths of the QLab 3 system. The following chapters deal with understanding the intricacies of QLab 3 as related to sound control.
4.1 Understanding Cues and the Cue Structure
Cues are the foundation of most traditional control systems for live performance, be it lighting, sound, effects, or projections. In theatre, the time-tested model is assigning specific cue numbers to each type of event to occur during the live performance and then allowing the stage manager to call them out and the operators to hit a go button, thereby triggering the cue. Within QLab, the structure is quite similar in that any QLab file will be composed ...