Its been a very long time since I have participated in CB, but hoping to get back into the forums. I can't comment on all of the flavors of playback in this thread. My
Cue Lab experience ended one awful night when the mini decided we asked to much of it and fired a couple unrelated cues instead of the critical one we needed at the time. In fairness we probably did ask too much as our CEO was firm in his belief that everything with the Apple
logo would walk on water. I went back to
Cue Player Premium and have been amazed not only with the feature set, and
ease of use, but the ongoing support and continuous improvements. I was looking over some posts discussing redundant playback ...a subject I find very interesting and valuable. Lots of long ballet cues and musical accompaniment cues in my world! The person commenting stated that one computer triggering another is not redundant as failure of the primary kills the second. His solution was I believe a
midi driven trigger firing both machines. Not redundant either. Failed
button or
midi kills both. CPP offers an elegant solution in that it will transmit "
Play" (and a few other commands) via
OSC that keeps two machines with the same files working together. A tap on the
mute buttons of the
mixer changes the source to the synced backup machine, and it just a matter of remembering to trigger the subsequent cues from the backup. Hot backup is a better description I think. Give it a try if you never have.