Load your venue plan, place speakers, drag sources — and watch real-time panning fire directly to QLab 5 via OSC. From system design to opening night, in one tool.
Free to use · Licence unlocks save, export & fade cue generation · macOS 13+ required
Built from real experience on professional productions. Every feature exists because it was needed on an actual show.
Open a PDF, PNG, or JPEG of your technical drawing. Calibrate scale against any known distance — or import directly from D&B ArrayCalc for a pre-calibrated, pre-populated rig in seconds. EASE XLD speaker positions are also supported.
Click to place speakers at their real-world positions, or right-click Add Speaker to auto-populate from a QLab audio output patch — names, output numbers, and channel routing assigned automatically.
Drag any source and panning gains calculate and fire to QLab 5 via OSC instantly. Level & Distance, Linear, and additional panning modes let you match the behaviour to the production.
Record a source path at performance speed — the linked QLab cue starts automatically and recording begins the moment you drag. Edit handles, simplify with Douglas–Peucker, smooth, or reverse in the built-in trajectory editor.
Export any recorded trajectory directly into QLab as a chained sequence of fade cues. The result is a fully self-contained show file that plays back without Spatial Awareness running — useful for handover, touring, and archive.
Lock all editing with one tap before the show starts. Sources can still be dragged and OSC updates still fire — but speakers are locked, the sidebar collapses, and the inspector goes read-only.
Per-speaker trim faders with a master offset. Spatial gain combines with trim before the OSC send. Double-click any fader to reset to zero. All values save with the project.
Click and drag to measure any distance on the drawing — the Inspector returns metres, feet, and sound travel time in milliseconds. Scale calibration underpins all distance, delay, and panning calculations.
Save everything — drawing, markers, calibration, QLab links, trajectories, trims, and world origin — in a single .sas project file. Export a flattened PDF with a full project report appended.
Real screenshots from live projects — a theatre venue plan and a D&B ArrayCalc import with QLab connected.
Spatial Awareness fits into how you actually work — not the other way around.
Open a PDF drawing or import from D&B ArrayCalc. Calibrate scale against any known measurement — ArrayCalc imports are pre-calibrated automatically.
Add speakers manually, import from EASE XLD, or right-click Add Speaker to auto-populate from your QLab audio output patch. Assign names, outputs, and facing directions.
Confirm the green connection indicator, then place sources for each performer or playback origin. Right-click to pick directly from your QLab cue list — or create new cues on the fly.
Arm recording, begin dragging — the linked QLab cue fires automatically and recording starts. Edit and refine paths in the trajectory editor. Playback syncs to QLab cue timing.
Export any trajectory as a chained QLab fade cue sequence for a fully self-contained show file — no Spatial Awareness required during the performance.
Enter Show Mode, drag sources live, trigger cues from the keyboard with Space, and use Panic All in an emergency. Save the project when you're done.
Spatial Awareness runs natively on Apple Silicon and works fully offline once set up. Licence validation happens silently in the background — a lost internet connection never interrupts a show.
No subscriptions. Buy once, use forever. Major version upgrades available at a discount when they arrive.
One machine. For designers and engineers working from a single workstation.
One-time payment, USD
Three seats for your main rig, backup machine, and edit suite. Built for how professional shows actually run.
One-time payment, USD
Spatial Awareness is free to download and use without a licence. Speaker placement, real-time QLab OSC panning, trajectory recording and playback, Show Mode, the Output Mixer, and D&B ArrayCalc & EASE XLD import are always available. A licence unlocks project saving, PDF export, and fade cue export to QLab.