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[JV]

Hello,

First of all, I would like to thank and congratulate the entire team at Figure 53 for creating such a powerful tool as QLab— honestly, it could easily be called “THE BOSS.” 🤣

I’ve been using QLab for almost 17 years, and it has always made me feel confident and supported. In my experience, it remains the lightest, most stable, and most robust software for running live shows.

Today I would like to share three ideas that could potentially be implemented in future versions of the software. I believe two of them might be relatively simple, while the third would likely require more development.

1. Layer Locking in Timeline

When the Timeline is enabled, it would be very helpful to have the option to lock layers to prevent accidental movements that could affect the programming of a show.

2. Memo Duration

It would be great if Memos could have a duration.

In Timeline mode, they could be placed at the beginning of an event and extended until the point where something important happens within the group.

For example:

• A piano solo

• The singer’s entrance

• A special cue or moment

This would be extremely useful because it would keep those moments visible in Active Cues on the right side, allowing operators to anticipate important moments and notify the rest of the team ahead of time when something significant is about to happen.

3. Predefined scripts for moving lights

It would be fantastic to have predefined scripts for groups of moving lights, similar to the animation tools available in lighting consoles.

For example, easily generating movements such as:

• Elliptical

• Linear (left or right)

• Mirrored (inward or outward)

• Random

• Figure-eight (infinity)

These scripts could allow editing parameters such as:

• Tilt

• Pan

• Position

• Gobo

• Color

• etc.

Thank you again, and congratulations for everything you have built.

You truly are the best.

QLab is not only a powerful piece of software — it also gives us peace of mind when running live shows, which is invaluable.

Best regards,

Jorge Vargas

Show Producer

[Rich Walsh]

Can you use a Wait Cue?

Or, place a Memo Cue at the point of the event (like a Pro Tools marker), then you get a countdown to it in the Active Cues list?

Rich

[Simplicity / JorgeVargas]

Yes. But the idea is that all events are visible from the beginning. With the counter. With the other options it is very close to the point of the event

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Director Simplicity

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[Rich Walsh]

That’s not my experience of testing it. A Memo Cue anywhere in a timeline Group Cue displays a negative countdown to its event time in the Active Cues list when the Group Cue is running.

Rich

On 13 Mar 2026, at 16:18, Simplicity / JorgeVargas <jo...@simplicitylab.co> wrote:

Yes. But the idea is that all events are visible from the beginning. With the counter. With the other options it is very close to the point of the event

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Jorge Vargas

Director Simplicity

jo...@simplicitylab.co

(+57) 300 785 39 20

El El vie, 13 mar. 2026 a la(s) 10:39 a.m., 'Rich Walsh' via QLab <ql...@googlegroups.com> escribió:

Can you use a Wait Cue?

Or, place a Memo Cue at the point of the event (like a Pro Tools marker), then you get a countdown to it in the Active Cues list?

Rich

On 13 Mar 2026, at 15:10, JV <jo...@simplicitylab.co> wrote:

2. Memo Duration

It would be great if Memos could have a duration.

[JV]

Yes, but I mean that  layer begin from the second 0 indicating that in the minute 1 there is an action layer, that action passes and both have already been executed then, and the next indicator follows, as you show it, see that this does not accompany the one from the second 0,

Imagine that the blue layers above are the notes, indicating from the beginning that the blue layers below will shoot in X time

[Chris Ashworth]

Hi JV,

Thank you for both the kind words and the suggestions!

I have added all of your thoughts to our issue tracker.

Warmly,

Chris

[Simplicity / JorgeVargas]

Great!

[micpool]

Wait cues can easily be used as memo cues with duraiton within timeline groups

Screen recording attached

[JV]

GREAT, I'LL TRY TO SEE IF IT WORKS FOR WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR

THANK YOU MIC