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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