Our Team

Daniel Higgott

Daniel Higgott is a software developer and sound engineer. He has worked in live audio for over 15 years, and has a career spanning theatre, music and live events. He has worked as a sound operator, mixing major west end musicals and touring productions. Daniel has also worked as a sound designer, programmer and associate sound designer for a variety of companies.

Daniel is an experienced macOS and iOS software developer. Through his work with Innovate Audio, his software is installed on over 10,000 devices world wide. Daniel specialises in software for the live events industries, and enjoys being able to use his own software tools alongside his work in live audio.

Daniel has twin toddlers, and when he’s not working he loves being able to spend time with them, and watch them grow up.

Oscar Higgott

Oscar Higgott is a physicist specialising in quantum computing, which uses quantum mechanical phenomena to solve certain problems that are beyond the reach of conventional computers.

At Innovate Audio, Oscar works on the graphics and panning algorithm for panLab.

In his spare time, Oscar enjoys baking, running and photography, as well as making pointless gadgets with a Raspberry Pi.

Device	Approximate Message Limit	Approximate Limitation
Yamaha QL Series	300	2 Sources between 16 Speakers at 10 fps
Yamaha CL Series	300	2 Sources between 16 Speakers at 10 fps
Yamaha DM7	600	4 Sources between 16 Speakers at 10 fps
Yamaha Rivage Series	600	4 Sources between 16 Speakers at 10 fps
Yamaha DME 7	2,540	16 Sources between 16 Speakers at 10 fps
QSC Q-SYS Cores	41,000	64 Sources between 64 Speakers at 10 fps
Behringer X32 Series	Not Reached	Limited by hardware I/O
Behringer X-Air Series	Not Reached	Limited by hardware I/O
Midas M32 Series	Not Reached	Limited by hardware I/O

Feature	Essentials Licence	Ultimate Licence
Number of licence seats	1	2
Number of Sources	16	Limited only by console input channel count
Number of Speakers	16	Limited only by console output channel count
Number of Derived Outputs	8	8
Tracker Support	❌	Coming Soon!
Control 3rd party renderers	❌	Coming Soon!
Snapshots	✅	✅
Sequences	✅	✅
OSC Control	✅	✅
MIDI Control	✅	✅
MTC Triggers	✅	✅
3D Spatial Environment	✅	✅
Shaping Nodes	✅	✅
Panner Visualisation	✅	✅

Feature	panLab 2	panLab 3
Operating System Requirement	macOS 10.12.2 and later	macOS 11 and later
QLab Compatibility	QLab 4	QLab 4 + QLab 5
Licence Seats	One seat, can be moved between computers	One seat, can be moved between computers
Multichannel Algorithm		X
Fancy Paste		X
Autosave		X
Zoom		X
Floating Window		X
Custom Cue Colours		X
Sequences	X	X
Derived Outputs	X	X
OSC Dictionary	X	X
Zone Opacities	X	X
Shaping Nodes	X	X
Background Images	X	X
Panner Visualisations	X	X
One-click QLab Connection	X	X

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Oscar Higgott

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