Furthermore, I once contacted QLab's technical support for help with an ambitious effect - it was theatre in the round, and I wanted sound to shift through six speakers, arranged behind the audience, to dramatize a "chase" sequence. It seemed like it should be completely possible, but I couldn't get it to work. Their tech team took a look at my plots, agreed that it should be possible - and that it wouldn't work was due to a bug - and then shipped me a pre-release version with the fix, all within, like, two days.
I've seldom loved a software product or company more.
If I were still in this game, however, I'd take a close look at Cuelist. It might solve the problem I had with my touring show, where local techs had to track three different places - script + my QLab deck + their lighting deck - to run the show. With very limited rehearsal that was usually too much for them to keep up with, and cues inevitably got dropped.
It'd all depend on how easily Cuelist connects to different lighting boards, and how efficiently house crew could add their light cues into that interface. Cudos to them, though, for coming up with a new UI that looks like it could be really great.
QLab was the least painful part of getting sound and lighting integrated. If the lighting system we used (Madrix) was half as easy to work with as QLab, I’d get dozens of hours of my life back.
