Minotaur is an industry-leading sound system database that makes design and production easier. Here’s a video walkthrough and here are some FAQs.
Key features include:
- Equipment. Manage all the equipment on your project, including equipment from different sources, from one database. Generate lists that track changes. Generate equipment labels. Estimate costs.
- Cable. Track every cable’s name, type, connections, bundle, and multi-pair lines. Link similar or split cables together. Patch cables and multi-pair lines together. Generate checklists and labels.
- Wireless. Track roles, actors, transmitters or receivers, and frequencies. Generate paperwork and labels. Import frequencies from IAS for each city.
- Boxes. Associate equipment with boxes. Generate pack lists. Generate box labels. Generate the manifest by box, including values and country of origin. Estimate how much cable will fit in a box.
- Power Circuiting. Estimate power draw by circuit and phase. Generate reports.
- Maintenance. Give each piece of equipment a history, including changes, repairs, serials numbers, and tracking numbers.
- Spreadsheet Integration. Import equipment for input and outputs lists. Export information to Excel for custom lists and labels.
- Backups. Minotaur automatically backs itself up every half hour.
- Bingo. Make tech bingo cards for your production. The associate lighting designer will chuckle.
- Flexibility. All equipment types and parameters are user-defined, so you can use Minotaur in your existing workflow without changing naming conventions or order of operations.
- Defaults. Minotaur comes with a default equipment library, including thousands of pieces of equipment; default cable types; and default box types. Choose to use defaults, your own data, or a combination.
Minotaur runs as a standalone application on Mac or PC. Users include:
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Not-For-Profit Theatre
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Minotaur is available on a per-user subscription basis, or on a per-project multi-user basis. Free demo and educational copies are available. Download it here: