The app I wanted
in my previz studio.
I’m Levyn. I’m a young lighting operator, and I built QTracks for the hours you spend alone at home with a song. Stems, markers, and a grandMA3 session on one screen, building the show out before the first rehearsal ever hears it run.
QTracks is a previz tool. It lives in the studio, not on the show floor. When the show actually runs, the console takes over and QTracks has already done its job.
Programming a song shouldn’t take three apps.
Before QTracks
CuePoints for cue programming and timecode. Loopback or BlackHole to split audio from LTC. A separate LTC-to-MTC converter when the desk wants MIDI. Three apps, three configs, three things that break every time you move to a new studio or rehearsal room.
With QTracks
One project file. One window for the song, the markers, and your timecode routing. Export a scaffold macro into grandMA3 to create the cues and timecode events, then use QTracks as the playhead while you program the lighting inside the console.
Honest roadmap. No dates.
I ship when things are stable, not when a calendar says so. This is what I’m pointing QTracks at next, in rough order.
Consoles beyond grandMA3
ETC Eos, Hog 4, Avolites, and Chamsys MagicQ. Same marker and cue model, console-specific exports.
Direct previz links
OSC out to Syncronorm Depence and Disguise so QTracks drives the previz renderer while you program.
Show archive format
One file that bundles stems, markers, cue programming, and exports. Hand it to another programmer and they can pick up where you left off.
Marker detection
Transient and structure-aware marker suggestions so the first pass through a song is 80% done by the time you touch it.
Something you need that isn’t on this list? Write to support@qtracks.app. I read every email.
QTracks stands on other people’s shoulders.
CuePoints showed that a serious, operator-grade tool for grandMA3 was possible. Lockstep made the LTC-to-MTC problem visible enough for the rest of us to go after it.And a handful of lighting ops I won’t name without asking have shaped QTracks more than they probably know, by letting me sit at their desks during load-ins and answering dumb questions between house calls. Thank you.
Want QTracks in your studio?
Download it free and program your next show with it. No account, no licence key — just the app.
Levyn Schneider — writing QTracks between shows.