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updated 10/08/2020 by Matt Royston-Bishop  As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

These are recommendations. Good things that have been tried and trusted tools.

Software

Caffeine - Prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers.

Reaper - My DAW of choice. Rock-solid live recording and playback. Endlessly customisable. Constantly improving and fair pricing.

Qlab 4 - Sound, video and lighting control for macOS

Qview - .pdf viewer that is controlled with OSC. Put your script on a 2nd monitor and have the page turns automated in Qlab

http://archiedestructo.github.io/OSC-Script/ - Application to stand along side QLab, receive OSC messages, and call script commands in a separate thread

https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/ - Loopback can combine audio from both application sources and audio input devices, then make it available anywhere on your Mac.

https://drafty-app.com/ - For speaker plots and schematics quickly. Inexpensive. 

Stageplot Pro  - For band stage plots.

Millumin - Create Audio visual shows.

Madmapper - Advanced tool for video and lightmapping.

MyBino - Binaural monitoring plugin. Downmix 5.1 to Binaural etc. with headtracking.

SPARTA - An open-source VST audio plug-in suite for spatial audio production, reproduction and visualisation

IEM plugins - Free and Open-Source audio plugin suite including Ambisonic plug-ins up to 7th order created by staff and students of the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics.

Facebook Spatial Workstation - Suite for designing spatial audio for 360 video and cinematic VR

Hardware

https://robertsonics.com/ - High performance embedded audio players and processors. The Tsunami player is a great multi-track playback solution for installations.

Orchid Electronics Micro DI - The best low-cost DI box. 

VST Free

Loudmax - Look-Ahead Brickwall Loudness Maximizer Plugin with a clean transparent sound. A fantastic, free alternative to Waves L2