Welcome to The QLab Cookbook

Adventures in QLab programming.

The cookbook is a collection of projects, examples, and experiments using a broad range of QLab programming techniques including AppleScript, OSC, external control using QLab Remote, third-party MIDI and OSC controllers, and other software.

Ambient Lighting From Video

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QLab and Vuo.

Epic Random Balls

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Order from Chaos.

Rehearsal Room Location

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Locate to named markers.

Regional Stages

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From pre-visuaization to performance.

Mute/Solo

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Need for Speed.

Button Button, Who's Got The Button

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Further explorations in hardware control of QLab

Multifiler

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Building multitrack audio files with QLab

Q Many Knobs

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Controlling Modular Synthesizers With QLab

Time Flies Like An Arrow, Fruit Flies Like A Banana

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Tempo and metronome tools in QLab

QL A/B X

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QLab for Science!

Mind-bending MIDI Binding

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Crew to Listening Stations

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Lighting Playground

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Level Playing Field

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Main or Backup

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Quick and easy show control muting

QLab Recital

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Dance like QLab is watching

Sound Design for Plays with QLab

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An introduction to the process

How To Become a Fade Ninja

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Only a ninja can fade out another ninja

Cross Platform Remote Control

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When all you have is a Chromebook, everything looks like an Android-shaped nail...

Lemur 2

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The Return of Lemur!

DiscOSC

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Animate to the beat using OSC queries

Teleprompters and Panoramas

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or, Scrolling Quite A Lot

Controlling Procedural and Physical Modeling Plug-Ins

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Sound design in the 21st century...

Automatic Ambient Audio Adjustment

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Mapping Complexity

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Making better masks

Video Composition

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Mattes and Masks and Blends, oh my!

Lemur

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Starting down the OSC rabbit hole...

Fingers On Buzzers

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Is that your final answer?

Master Marker Manipulation

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Importing, exporting, and understanding slice markers

Countdown

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For presenters, comedians, and spacecraft launches.

Workspace Correspondence

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Run QLab from anywhere in the world.

AU Instruments in QLab

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AudioUnits within AudioUnits

Carts And Remotes

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Space Hijack

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Take control of your space(bar)

Syphon to MadMapper

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Advanced surface mapping.

Mixing Stems

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Mix multitrack recording live in QLab

Show Control Cues Generator

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Save yourself quite a lot of typing

Encoder Envy

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Putting the "hands on" in... hands on...

Malfunctioning On Cue

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It's hard work getting it wrong the right way...

Screen Wipe

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Replicating classic vision mixer effects in QLab

QLab Manual Typewriter

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Use 21st century technology to simulate 19th century technology.

Too Fab Q-Lab Beams Are Gonna Find Me

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Don't have a followspot? Use your projector!

Selective MIDI Override

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Override output to specific MIDI devices.

Do The Doppler

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Doppler means so much more than just weather radar...

Captain Slog

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A good captain logs everything.

A Cue List A Day

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Give us this day our daily cues.

A Plug In Primer

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Using AudioUnit effects on Audio cues, Mic cues, and outputs.

Slide-o-matic

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Instant slideshows, just add images.

Better By Default

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A better starting place for audio programming.

Devamps Demystified

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Exit loops with style and panache.

QDrip

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Q drops keep falling on my head

Touch OSC Wizardry

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Build a custom touch interface for QLab.

Skip A Cue

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On purpose, that is...

Hotkeys and OSC

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Programming cues to help you program cues.

Masks For Sail

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Perfect projections on weird shapes.

Video Scrubber

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Visually locate cue points in videos.

Hollywood Titles

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Flashy text graphics on a (time) budget.

Non-linear Performances

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Not every show moves in a straight line.

Real-time Clock

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Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

Understudies

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Handle voiceovers, character introductions, and understudies with ease.

Subtitles

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This is a subtitle about an article about subtitles...

Telephone Ring

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How to perfectly replicate 19th century technology using 21st century technology.

Thank you QLab! But our princess is in another castle!

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Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A.

SUPEREMOJIMATION

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Animation fun with emoji.