Qlab mac driver#
Qlab mac Pc#
Qlab mac mac#

One of the best features of Qlab is itвЂ™s Devamp cues, which allow you to loop a section of the track until you tell the system to then carry on. The remote control worked really well, although iвЂ™d like to see a new design for the switchover button (where awaiting delivery of V2 of the Cue One switcher). A small blip in audio but you were straight back! Just what you need. While we never had to switch to the backup machine during a show we tested the switching process and it was brilliant. But I thoroughly believe the system (maybe with the introduction of firewire hard drives) could handle 40 channels or maybe more submixed to the 32 outputs of the system.

Qlab mac mac#

The result is a system which we have tested to run up to 20 simultaneous audio channels from the mac miniвЂ™s (Sub mixed in Qlab to 16 Outputs). But due to the switching equipment then failing we decided to go for all essential equipment on the UPS. The other options were to power the backup mac off the mains directly, so that if the UPS fails, a mac is still operating. We decided to power both macs, interfaces and the main switching systems off the UPS. Wordclock is also delivered to the LS9, with the availability to clock external pre amps as well (We often use Focusrite OctopreвЂ™s for Radio Mics).ДЇor power we went for a UPS system to assure a good power supply to the whole system. Once we got this working, they clocked to the external source quickly upon receiving power. After some tweaking with the audio devices settings in Audio MIDI Settings, we were able to get the Presonus interfaces to clock to the external input. We then following advice from Cue One went for an external clock to provide wordclock for the system.

Qlab mac driver#

A new BETA driver from Presonus however solved the issues. A great product! A few issuesвЂ¦ Firstly was the fact our new Macs had Firewire 800 no 400, buying 2 new cables solved that! Next problem was that our new macs ran Snow Leopard, and there were issues with the supplied driver. Which gives you 32 channels of ADAT out via Firewire. To get the audio out of the macвЂ™s we bought 2 Presonus Firestudio Lightpipe. So we decided to go with it!! 2 mac miniвЂ™s (With dual video outputs) were bought, the switching equipment from Cue One and a great flightcase from the nice guys at Blacka. While much more expensive as a solution, it offered a complete and tested solution in a very tidy package. The system allows for a one button switch over of up to 32 Channels of Audio, MIDI I/O and 2 Video Outputs. Originally based around SFX machines, but now they do Qlab machines! They had designed a system based around 2 Mac MiniвЂ™s with there own switching hardware, 2 KVM switchers and an ADAT Switcher. Who specialise in making playback machines. So Chris found and got in touch with a company called Cue One. However due the fact the driver requires licensing on every use making using different machines difficult, we decided spending money on Dante as a solution wasnвЂ™t the best investment or solution for this problem. Based around 2 Macbooks and the MIDI Solutions Switching equipment we had already. Combine that with a network switch and another backup machine, you have a switchable dual 16 Channel system.

Qlab mac Pc#

This system has a driver that installs on the system, and means the mac or PC seeвЂ™s the Cat5 as a 16 I/O soundcard. This system allows you to have 16 Channels of Audio sent out of a computer on cat5 straight into a Yamaha Desk (In this case an LS9-32). Something I talked about in my post from PLASA earlier this year. For the audio our original idea was to go the Dante card route. To do this we would need a dual mac machine, that would allow instant switch-over of at least 16 Channels of Audio and MIDI In and Out. The plan was to develop a Qlab system to playback both the Multi-track band, Sound Effects and handle the MIDI routing. We currently use Qlab for sound effects, stereo playback, basic video and MIDI routing and triggering. We turned to what we know and love bestвЂ¦ Qlab. But in order for this to playback and work correctly we needed an audio playback system which could playback at least 16 channels of audio and more importantly have good redundancy. The director at the eleventh hour decided to scrap the live band and go with a multi tracked band recording and playback solution (I wonвЂ™t be into the MU ethics of this!). Posted on April 1st, 2010 No comments TweetДЄs I was saying recently I was working on an amateur production of Footloose for dBS Solutions.