Sound Cue Programs; Are they useful and feasible for a play?

[mbenonis]

Wow, talk about a thread back from the dead. And how things have changed - QLab wasn't around then!

Bobby, check to see if MultiPlay is listed in the cue programs sticky thread, and if it isn't, please feel free to add it.

 

[zac850]

Haha, wow this thread brought back memories.

That show ended up being run off of Mini Disks, if anyone is curious. Worked fine. If I were doing it again, qLab would be it.

 

[bobbyt2012]

Once again I have to plug Q-Manager (hammer and tong.com) - the free version will do everything you need for basic FX playback, and if you need more than 2 channels or cue-able fades, the limited version isn't that expensive.

If you highlight the bottom of that site there are a bunch of explicit sites.

 

[Hughesie]

if it were me

MD is the only way to go, i have never had any trouble with them and if you have good md gear you will always been impressed

 

[Chris15]

Given the budget, an instant replay by 360 systems is quite a nice unit, particularly for this sort of thing... I won't mention which worldwide known childrens' act runs all their backing tracks off one.

Go up a grade to a redundant pair of SFX computers, MIDI triggered so both play simultaneously.

And the final step would be something like a redundant pair of Pyramix, capable of running Olympic ceremonies and not skipping a beat or from memory, dropping back to the secondary... All with redundant power, at least one of which is UPS fed...