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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.

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Hotkeys and Triggers

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Main Volume Control

From near or far.

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ASCII Antics

Use 21st century technology to simulate 20th century technology.

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Tape Transport

Forward, Backward, Rewind, Fast-Forward

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Audio Trigger

Over the threshold

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Top and Tail

One-click start and end trimming

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Bars and Beats

Triggering cues musically

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Waveform Focus

or, A Journey Through UI Scripting

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MIDI Mixer Manipulation

External mixer control

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Blend Mode Playground

Blending à la mode

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Wider Still And Wider

Shall Thy Bounds Be Set

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Wipes & Transitions Metal Edition

Replicating classic vision mixer effects in QLab 5 and beyond

Fader Bank

Advanced hand-on control with TouchOSC

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Real Time Quad Panner

With manual or automated paths

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Ambient Lighting From Video

QLab and Vuo.

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Epic Random Balls

Order from Chaos.

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Rehearsal Room Location

Locate to named markers.

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Regional Stages

From pre-visuaization to performance.

Mute/Solo

Need for Speed.

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Button Button, Who's Got The Button

Further explorations in hardware control of QLab

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Multifiler

Building multitrack audio files with QLab

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Q Many Knobs

Controlling Modular Synthesizers With QLab

MIDI external-tools

Time Flies Like An Arrow, Fruit Flies Like A Banana

Tempo and metronome tools in QLab

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QL A/B X

QLab for Science!

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Mind-bending MIDI Binding

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Crew to Listening Stations

external-tools audio

Lighting Playground

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Level Playing Field

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Main or Backup

Quick and easy show control muting

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QLab Recital

Dance like QLab is watching

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Sound Design for Plays with QLab

An introduction to the process

How To Become a Fade Ninja

Only a ninja can fade out another ninja

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Cross Platform Remote Control

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

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Lemur 2 Is Also Dead!

Ceci n'est pas une chapitre.

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DiscOSC

Animate to the beat using OSC queries

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Teleprompters and Panoramas

or, Scrolling Quite A Lot

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Controlling Procedural and Physical Modeling Plug-Ins

Sound design in the 21st century...

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Automatic Ambient Audio Adjustment

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Mapping Complexity

Making better masks

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Video Composition

Mattes and Masks and Blends, oh my!

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Lemur Is Dead!

Long Live Lemur!

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Fingers On Buzzers

Is that your final answer?

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Master Marker Manipulation

Importing, exporting, and understanding slice markers

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Countdown

For presenters, comedians, and spacecraft launches.

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Workspace Correspondence

Run QLab from anywhere in the world.

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AU Instruments in QLab

AudioUnits within AudioUnits

external-tools audio effects

Carts And Remotes

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Space Hijack

Take control of your space(bar)

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Syphon to MadMapper

Advanced surface mapping.

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Mixing Stems

Mix multitrack recording live in QLab

Show Control Cues Generator

Save yourself quite a lot of typing

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Encoder Envy

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

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Malfunctioning On Cue

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

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Screen Wipe

Replicating classic vision mixer effects in QLab

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QLab Manual Typewriter

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

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Too Fab Q-Lab Beams Are Gonna Find Me

Don't have a followspot? Use your projector!

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Selective MIDI Override

Override output to specific MIDI devices.

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Do The Doppler

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

Captain Slog

A good captain logs everything.

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A Cue List A Day

Give us this day our daily cues.

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A Plug In Primer

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

Slide-o-matic

Instant slideshows, just add images.

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Better By Default

A better starting place for audio programming.

Devamps Demystified

Exit loops with style and panache.

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QDrip

Q drops keep falling on my head

Touch OSC Wizardry

Build a custom touch interface for QLab.

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Skip A Cue

On purpose, that is...

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Hotkeys and OSC

Programming cues to help you program cues.

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Masks For Sail

Perfect projections on weird shapes.

Video Scrubber

Visually locate cue points in videos.

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Hollywood Titles

Flashy text graphics on a (time) budget.

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Non-linear Performances

Not every show moves in a straight line.

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Real-time Clock

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

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Understudies

Handle voiceovers, character introductions, and understudies with ease.

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Subtitles

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

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Telephone Ring

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

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

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

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SUPEREMOJIMATION

Animation fun with emoji.

Other Resources

Documentation QLab.tv

QLab Discussion List