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:
Commercial Theatre Death of a Salesman Broadway 2022 Some Like It Hot Broadway Kimberly Akimbo Broadway Take Me Out Broadway Between Riverside and Crazy Broadway 2022 A Beautiful Noise Broadway/Boston 1776 Broadway/Tour 2022-2023 Jagged Little Pill Broadway/Tour TINA: The Tina Turner Musical Broadway/Tour A Strange Loop Broadway Funny Girl Broadway 2022 SiX Broadway/Tour Freestyle Love Supreme Broadway, DC, Off-Broadway, Tour, Las Vegas Hadestown Broadway/South Korea/Tour Tootsie Tour Hamilton Australia, Philip, Angelica, Eliza… and Peggy The Band’s Visit Broadway/Tour KPOP Broadway Oklahoma! Broadway 2019/2021 Tour Mr. Saturday Night Broadway POTUS Broadway Hangmen Broadway Dear Evan Hansen Tour/Toronto The Minutes Broadway Blue Man Group North American Companies Paradise Square Chicago/Broadway Birthday Candles Broadway Once Upon A One More Time Chicago, Washington DC Trouble in Mind Broadway Clyde’s Broadway Chicken and Biscuits Broadway Waitress Broadway 2021 The Lehman Trilogy Broadway Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Broadway 2020 The Inheritance Broadway A Christmas Carol Broadway 2019 The New One National Tour Frankie and Johnny Broadway 2019 Hillary and Clinton Broadway Burn This Broadway Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Tour/Australia The Cher Show Chicago/Broadway Head Over Heels San Francisco/Broadway Springsteen on Broadway 2017 Prince of Broadway Broadway An American in Paris First National Tour |
Not-For-Profit Theatre
A Contemporary Theatre of Connecticut American Repertory Theatre Bay Street Theatre Berkely Rep Broadway Bares Classic Stage Company Dallas Theater Center La Jolla Playhouse Lincoln Center LCT3 Minetta Lane New York Theatre Workshop Ogunquit Playhouse Pittsburgh CLO Playwright’s Horizons Roundabout The National High School Musical Theatre Awards The Old Globe The Public Theatre The REV Theatre Co. Colleges and Universities Carnegie Mellon School of Drama DePaul University Penn State The University of California, Irvine |
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: