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From black box theaters to Broadway, cues are being fired and organized in Figure 53’s excellent application, QLab. What started in 2006 as a simple way to cue and fade audio playback has grown into a staple of the live entertainment industry, now being used in classrooms, cruise ships, mega churches, and arenas alike, controlling not just audio, but video, projections, and network show control protocols and even running the lighting rig.

As a multimedia artist with a wide range of projects myself, from concerts to Broadway to industrials to installation and gallery work, I have used QLab on many occasions as an indispensable tool to produce my effects and show control sequencing. On some shows, I utilize nearly every function of ...

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