QLab Alternatives and Similar Software

Show Cue System

The Show Cue System has been designed to playback sound cues such as sound effects and music cues for live theatre productions. With SCS you can assemble all the cues you need in the order in which they are to be played. You can set the required level (volume), pan, length and speaker selection for each cue. Hot Keys are available for those sounds you may want to play at any time.

• Easy to use and runs sound, video and lighting in one cue stack. Able able to set up a show in a fraction of the time it used to take in separate systems. Guest • Feb 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial Windows

Cue Player

Cue Player is designed to be used by theater-sound people to play sound effects. With the availability of CDs with thousands of effects and the computer's ability to record sounds on its own, it's possible to have all the sounds for the show, including entry and exit background music, resident on a PC. Cue Player can organize those files, associate them with their cue lines, adjust volumes, and show running or remaining cue durations.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows

Soundplant

Soundplant is a digital audio performance tool that turns the computer keyboard into a versatile, low latency sound trigger and playable instrument. Via drag-and-drop, easily assign sound files of any format and unlimited size onto 72 keyboard keys, for hours of instantly-playing audio at your fingertips with no extra hardware needed.

Freemium Mac Windows

EventSoundControl

Use sofware that was designed from the ground up for the musical accompaniment of sporting events, the carnival and for your stage show! With Event Sound Control You have a piece of software that is jingle and music player for events. Also streaming software for online radio is included. EventSoundControl is everything you need to take control of the sounds and music for your event. The combination of playlist and jingle player is a basic.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

Sound Byte

Sound Byte is a computerized cart rack machine for the Windows, Mac, iPhone and iPad - play AIFF, WAVE, mp3, and other sound files at the click of a mouse.

Commercial Mac Windows iPhone iPad

Linux Show Player

Linux Show Player (LiSP) is a free cue player designed for sound-playback in stage production. The goal of the project is to provide a complete playback software for musical plays, theater shows and similar. Features -Buttons matrix layout suited for touchscreens -List layout suited for keyboards -Pre/Post wait -Undo/Redo changes -Multiple concurrent cue playback -Realtime sound effects: equalization, pitch shift, speed control, compression, ...

Free Open Source Linux

Trigger Audio and Video Playback

Trigger Professional Audio & Video Playback Software brings an unparalleled set of features & solutions. Conceived and built by industry professionals, Trigger is the complete solution for broadcast & live performance. Highly configurable, easy to learn, totally robust and an unparalleled set of control features. Trigger can be controlled by keyboard, mouse, touch-screen, midi and time-code along with many proprietary hardware controllers.

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WaveCart

WaveCart displays up to 10 on-screen players, each of which can be sent to a different sound card output. Additionaly, you can instantly play back audio files with 24 configurable HotKeys. Each deck has an Elapsed and Remaining timer, plus an Intro Countdown and a clear label containing information about the file being played including Artist/Description, Title/Advertiser & OutCue. Decks and HotKeys can be played manually using a touch-screen, keyboard buttons, or mouse.

Commercial $ $ $ Windows iPhone iPad

Soundboard Studio

Soundboard Studio lets you take your podcast, live show, gig or performance to the next level. It’s a low-latency professional soundboard app for instant audio playback. Key features...

Commercial iPhone iPad

qwertyGO!

With qwertyGO! you are able to trigger sounds and songs with your computer-keyboard or midi-device. You can also provide backing tracks for live acts and generate a click-track for the drummer on a separate channel. Play jingles and sound loops in a radio show or at the theater. qwertyGO! is an advanced media player. Play multichannel sound files for art-performances or sound sculptures or present examples of your work to customers at your recording-studio.

Commercial Mac Windows

iJingle

Instant playback of jingles, sound effects and music, right from your smartphone or tablet. Ease your way into the i-Jingle app with the free version. As good as the PRO, but fewer features i-Jingle is the Android tablet jingle player you’ve been waiting for! Need more? No problem! The additional features, such as LOOPING, DUCKING, VOLUME CONTROL, PRESETS, AUTOCUE, DROPBOX IMPORT and FADERS are available with an easy upgrade to the PRO version.

Freemium $ $ $ Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Kindle Fire

MultiWAV

MultiWAV is a revolutionary way of playing multiple audio files at once. This is achieved by having multiple players all in one window. MultiWAV can also rip CDs and import the audio directly into the individual players.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows

iAC Studio

iAC Studio allows you to playback multiple audio tracks at one time. This app is an invaluable audio application for the music industry, audio production, Pod casters, Radio, YouTube and Reddit fans, and anyone that has an interest in audio mash-ups, TV, sports, concerts, and more! This revolutionary app, featuring ground breaking technology, is changing how the world edits and plays back audio tracks.

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Livetraker Audio Midi Player

Features Summary Windows and Mac version! multiple song import to save time importing songs (audio & midi) audio playback – up to 24 stereo tracks (wav / mp3 / etc.

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ShowCueWeb

An open source HTML 5 software that can cue Audio, Video and image for short theater show.

• It's extremely basic and does not save your work Guest • Mar 2019 Disagree   Agree

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