Magic Show New User
I have just started using Go Button. I could not be happier with the functionality and ease of use. A huge shout out and thank you to all who came together to make this amazing APP!
Great App
Impossible to criticise the free version. I’m pleased the bug that could make a cue look like it was playing but actually be silent has been identified and fixed. If the pro version could send OSC as well as just receive it then I’d be more tempted to pay for it.
Top / Pro Version
Ich habe nach kurzer Überlegungen die Pro Version gekauft. Tolle App!
This is this one!
I can’t rate this app highly enough. It’s made running shows on my own, live on stage possible. It’s just so easy to edit stuff. It’s totally flexible, adaptable, friendly, exportable…. Bought the pro licence and now I use it for all my shows. Thank you you clever developers you!!!
Love it - just 1 thing…
The only thing I would change is for a played cue to change colors once it has been played. That way you can tell where you left off!
Out of the Box
The concept is awesome but ease of use out of the box needs tweaking in my opinion. I’m using my one free event to determine whether to purchase or not. Thanks.
Response from developer
We appreciate the feedback! Please write us using the Contact Support screen or email support@figure53.com and let us know your thoughts. ~BL
Been controlling my shows for years.
Go Button is hands-down one of the best apps I’ve used for running sound cues on stage. It’s reliable, professional, and perfect for live performances. I use it during The Reality Twister Comedy Hypnosis Show, and it keeps everything running smooth so I can focus on entertaining the audience. If you’re a performer who needs flawless audio playback, Go Button is a total game-changer.
— Johnathan Smith, The Reality Twister 🎭✨
— Johnathan Smith, The Reality Twister 🎭✨
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Love this app!
I’ve used the app both as a free user and a paid user. Never have been let down. I’ e been able to give it to non-tech people and they ran the show.
Love this program!
Been using it for years now on multiple shows. This is a great program. Professional quality sound cue system for very little money. Highly flexible; the more you dig into it, the more you realize how sophisticated it can be if you want. But it is simple enough for the beginner. Cannot recommend highly enough.
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Stabil & Übersichtlich
Ich nutze die App auf iPhone und iPad für Theater und Zirkusvorstellungen. Es sind (für mich) alle relevanten Einstellungen vorhanden, um sich Geräusche und Musik so zurechtzulegen, dass die Show stressfrei ablaufen kann.
Die Oberfläche ist übersichtlich aufgebaut und in vernünftigen Grenzen auch einstellbar. Eine fertige Show lässt sich leicht auf ein anderes Gerät übertragen. Der Support per Mail ist schnell und freundlich.
Ich habe nichts zu bemängeln und kann die App unbedingt empfehlen.
Die Oberfläche ist übersichtlich aufgebaut und in vernünftigen Grenzen auch einstellbar. Eine fertige Show lässt sich leicht auf ein anderes Gerät übertragen. Der Support per Mail ist schnell und freundlich.
Ich habe nichts zu bemängeln und kann die App unbedingt empfehlen.
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Love it!
Go Button Pro is A M A Z I N G!
Have a play about with it, editing music, cues, over lay tracks and sound effects, stop start, fade in and out. It has everything. Personally, I would like a visual column whereby I could add notes & reminders that I could read as well as my tracks. But 5hats just a personal choice. It’s Great. Enjoy!!!
Have a play about with it, editing music, cues, over lay tracks and sound effects, stop start, fade in and out. It has everything. Personally, I would like a visual column whereby I could add notes & reminders that I could read as well as my tracks. But 5hats just a personal choice. It’s Great. Enjoy!!!
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Long time user
This app is probably the best app of any kind that I have ever used! Not only does it ‘just work,’ it has all the features I can imagine needing except for those of a Broadway-level production.
Moreover, the support (by email) is prompt, friendly and thorough.
Moreover, the support (by email) is prompt, friendly and thorough.
Used in Live Performance seamlessly
Because this is from the developers of QLab is an immediate reassurance that you’re going to use software that is heavily field tested and designed by those that know what are essential to the engineers reliant on it in the live performance aspect faultless and repetitive without hesitation.
The ability to use this software pro bono with one show in the system, is extremely useful to enable it to be ‘auditioned’ first. Other than the one show only rule, there is no other obvious restrictions to the user.
As an experiment, this entire production was purposefully compiled, edited and run from an iPad Pro in the current iOS 18 (which updated half way through the process but no problems whatsoever thankfully).
Did I need to return to a Mac ? No;
Is the app navigated as expected? Mostly;
Can you attenuate frequencies within a track? - no;
Can you modify levels within a track? - yes;
Can you pan a track? Yes;
Can you do this live? -no;
can you run multiple cues individually? -yes (like QLab)
Can you send multiple cues to multiple sources for mixing downstream? - NO it’s a L & R output only which will ‘mix’ the phase of L or R according to the individual cue settings.
Can you duck the master output? - Yes
Is there a ‘panic’ button? - Yes
Can you choose the cue number of each cue to align with the DSM book? - no, but you can set the update parameters such as each cue updates by 1 or 0.5 etc.
Can you write notes and general comments per cue? - yes - live? - no;
Are there count up/down timers per cue? - yes
Is it easy to reedit a cue once loaded ? - edit, no; alter the fade in/outs unevenly? yes.
Can you alter the sensitivity of ‘hovering hand syndrome’ ? Yes - did you trigger it ever? No!
What were your output connections to the amplifiers? - The iPad Pro has a USB-C connection on itself and there is one on the Apple combined magnetic cover and keyboard.
It only operated on the iPad not the pseudo connection. The adaptor used was a shop product USB-C to 2 x ¼” mono jack plugs labelled L & R (red for right)
The jack plugs patched into 2 x individual mono channels not a single stereo channel on a 32 track mixing desk . Individual channels were essential in order to obtain the fixed aural positioning of the sound effects, something that a stereo channel would not permit as it mixes linearly the horizontal audio plane, with the remnant still sent to the opposing speakers.
By using 2 x mono channels, the aural plane is completely fixable and was stunning in its blind ‘focussing’ of the effective in relation to the action on stage. An initial patch of the adaptor to the system did initiate a burst of earth loop hum even though fed from a clean earth technical supply, but once the iPad had recognised the adaptor, it rapidly stopped and never returned.
The iPad was also operated either on self power or charging power, but no additional background noise was apparent. There was no perceptive signal noise ratio whatsoever, and the clarity of reproduction was unquestionable.
The choices of audio file compatibility are as you would expect, and there are no file glitches to report - again, a series of different file types were used to ensure interoperability which was not a problem. Setting the output audio from the iPad didn’t feel ‘reassuring’ partly because the icon used to confirm that the USB-C adaptor was accepted was the displaying of the headphone symbol on the volume control of the iPad - not necessarily the fault of the software, and the creating of a unique “Show Mode” Apple Focus was and is essential. In that Focus choice, it is absolutely essential to shut down and lock out anything that makes any advisory noise, ping, update or phone call !, otherwise the audio/haptic will just come on through as usual onto the iPad, but the main system amplifiers !
Again, not a fault of the app, but trying to understand the Apple Focus mode of ‘on/off’ felt like insanity at one point, although that might have been trying to do it at 4am !
One thing I would have liked is a ‘line up tone’ to both audibly and visually on the master fader, ensure that 0.775v RMS was 0dB from source to amplifiers, but perhaps that is ‘old school’ these days?
Recommend this app? Fill your boots ! It’s awesome .
The ability to use this software pro bono with one show in the system, is extremely useful to enable it to be ‘auditioned’ first. Other than the one show only rule, there is no other obvious restrictions to the user.
As an experiment, this entire production was purposefully compiled, edited and run from an iPad Pro in the current iOS 18 (which updated half way through the process but no problems whatsoever thankfully).
Did I need to return to a Mac ? No;
Is the app navigated as expected? Mostly;
Can you attenuate frequencies within a track? - no;
Can you modify levels within a track? - yes;
Can you pan a track? Yes;
Can you do this live? -no;
can you run multiple cues individually? -yes (like QLab)
Can you send multiple cues to multiple sources for mixing downstream? - NO it’s a L & R output only which will ‘mix’ the phase of L or R according to the individual cue settings.
Can you duck the master output? - Yes
Is there a ‘panic’ button? - Yes
Can you choose the cue number of each cue to align with the DSM book? - no, but you can set the update parameters such as each cue updates by 1 or 0.5 etc.
Can you write notes and general comments per cue? - yes - live? - no;
Are there count up/down timers per cue? - yes
Is it easy to reedit a cue once loaded ? - edit, no; alter the fade in/outs unevenly? yes.
Can you alter the sensitivity of ‘hovering hand syndrome’ ? Yes - did you trigger it ever? No!
What were your output connections to the amplifiers? - The iPad Pro has a USB-C connection on itself and there is one on the Apple combined magnetic cover and keyboard.
It only operated on the iPad not the pseudo connection. The adaptor used was a shop product USB-C to 2 x ¼” mono jack plugs labelled L & R (red for right)
The jack plugs patched into 2 x individual mono channels not a single stereo channel on a 32 track mixing desk . Individual channels were essential in order to obtain the fixed aural positioning of the sound effects, something that a stereo channel would not permit as it mixes linearly the horizontal audio plane, with the remnant still sent to the opposing speakers.
By using 2 x mono channels, the aural plane is completely fixable and was stunning in its blind ‘focussing’ of the effective in relation to the action on stage. An initial patch of the adaptor to the system did initiate a burst of earth loop hum even though fed from a clean earth technical supply, but once the iPad had recognised the adaptor, it rapidly stopped and never returned.
The iPad was also operated either on self power or charging power, but no additional background noise was apparent. There was no perceptive signal noise ratio whatsoever, and the clarity of reproduction was unquestionable.
The choices of audio file compatibility are as you would expect, and there are no file glitches to report - again, a series of different file types were used to ensure interoperability which was not a problem. Setting the output audio from the iPad didn’t feel ‘reassuring’ partly because the icon used to confirm that the USB-C adaptor was accepted was the displaying of the headphone symbol on the volume control of the iPad - not necessarily the fault of the software, and the creating of a unique “Show Mode” Apple Focus was and is essential. In that Focus choice, it is absolutely essential to shut down and lock out anything that makes any advisory noise, ping, update or phone call !, otherwise the audio/haptic will just come on through as usual onto the iPad, but the main system amplifiers !
Again, not a fault of the app, but trying to understand the Apple Focus mode of ‘on/off’ felt like insanity at one point, although that might have been trying to do it at 4am !
One thing I would have liked is a ‘line up tone’ to both audibly and visually on the master fader, ensure that 0.775v RMS was 0dB from source to amplifiers, but perhaps that is ‘old school’ these days?
Recommend this app? Fill your boots ! It’s awesome .
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Outstanding - but please!!
This is an excellent app for audio cues. I use it primarily with a marching band or rehearsals. So theres a free version and a $100 version But can there please be something in between? How about a version that only saves 5 or 10 shows for a lower price?
Unhappy
There seems to be no way to skip back to previous songs while using a wireless Bluetooth remote. This is Crucial for running a show. And I paid $100 for this app!! I will remove this review if I receive a refund. 🙏🙏
Response from developer
Hello -- In general, Go Button shows are meant to move forward, so that you can design your show in advance then trigger your show with just one button. But there are definitely several ways to skip back when you need to. One way is to assign the "Select Prev Cue" action to a remote button in your Remote Control Profile. Or you can add a custom "go action" to your cue set to "select" or "start" and targeting "Prev cue" if that fits your show design better. Please write us at support@figure53.com for more info. We write back very fast and are always happy to help! (We don't have a way to issue refunds ourselves unfortunately, but you can contact Apple by clicking "Report a Problem" in your email receipt if none of these solutions work for you. And please feel free to keep using the free version if you do!)
Love, but suggest…
Just one request - any way for a “hit” to change color once it has been played? It is hard to tell what has and hasn’t been played midway through a show!
All Pro App
I am an A1 in live event production and GO Button is my go to app when I am responsible for the audio queue. The flexibility is amazing. Often times we will have pre-recorded VOGs running over ‘walk on’ ‘walk off music’ and GO Button has the flexibility to duck the music track while the VOG is playing and then bring the audio track back up automatically. The least amount of interaction can pre-programmed and tested helping to ensure a smooth show. Until recently, I was not using the HITS portion of the app. Now I put intermission background music on HITS and also use the FADE/STOP all audio to kill it when we are back. I was using QLab for years and still love QLAB, but having my iPad makes it very convenient, plus it frees up my laptop for other functions. I am very satisfied with GO button and recommend it to my live production colleagues.
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Un must have !!!
Je l’ai encore utilisée hier pour mon spectacle et c’est une merveille !
Instinctive et complète, cette application vous permettra de gérer finement et de manière autonome, les musiques et effets sonores de votre prestation
Instinctive et complète, cette application vous permettra de gérer finement et de manière autonome, les musiques et effets sonores de votre prestation
Outrageously priced
This is a great app for simple shows but the pricing is ridiculous. I use the free version but I wouldn’t buy the Pro version because it incredibly poor value for money.
As well as Go Button on the iPad, I use SCS on my laptop. That program can do loads more including controlling lighting, midi devices and mixers as well has handling audio inputs and multi channel output but costs half as much.
Would be handy to have some pro features but the concept of price elasticity of demand is clearly lost on the developers so I’ll spend my money on a different product thanks.
As well as Go Button on the iPad, I use SCS on my laptop. That program can do loads more including controlling lighting, midi devices and mixers as well has handling audio inputs and multi channel output but costs half as much.
Would be handy to have some pro features but the concept of price elasticity of demand is clearly lost on the developers so I’ll spend my money on a different product thanks.
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Absolutely the best.
It does what it says it does. It works all the time. I have never had any problems with it, that’s saying a lot. Try the free demo and see if yourself. Love this app.
