if your on a
mac you can check out que lab my td showed it o me, and wow i cant believe its free.
since I'm a pc only guy, i cant use it.
i hope someone could tell me of a piece of software for the pc that dose the same.
QLab is the best thing I've ever spent money on, period, bar none.
I used
QLab for EVERY show in my
theatre last year. Not one crash during a show. (only during programming if I did something stupid, like create a recursive
cue... OOPS!)
I'm not going to sit here and preach, but all I'm saying is that my booth has 2 Macs (
Mackie TT24 Control & SFX (
QLab +
Midi), A Projection Controller (also running
QLab + Video), and my personal laptop, which acts as a backup for both, in the case that
crap hits the fan)
... and 2 PC's in it. The 2 PC's are:
Strand 300, and
Strand 300 Backup.
'nuff said?
The guys at
QLab have never taken more than 24 hours to solve a problem, and once I even had a SUPER critical issue, and they called me to help me resolve it.
Oh, and stuck on PC? Ditch it. You'll be happier on a
Mac. If you need "pc". Dual-boot your
mac (not hard), then install a copy of Parallels for 59.99$, which will let you boot your WinXP partition inside of a window while running OSX. That's how I use the
Mackie TT24 software on my iMac while running
QLab for the sound effects.