The laser op works in isolation. So does everyone else.

Here's how it usually goes. The laser tech gets their directions — maybe timings on a spreadsheet, maybe a checkbox that says lasers: yes / no for each song, maybe a reference video with text cut to pace. They build their part. Carefully. In total isolation.

They have no idea what lighting is doing. Lighting has no idea what visuals are doing. And nobody — including the artist — sees how it all fits together until rehearsal day. The same gap hits lighting directors, VJs, and tour managers. Everyone designs their department blind, then prays it lines up in the room.

The creative direction and the pacing — the actual feel of the show — stayed hidden until the most expensive, most pressured day on the calendar. And let's be honest: most tours and shows can't afford a full rehearsal with real equipment and every department on deck. So you walk into the studio with a plan that was never really shared, and almost never accurate.

What show design is missing

The biggest shows in the world — the ones that define a tour, a festival headline slot, a career — are still planned in spreadsheets. There's a layer of execution tools that are genuinely great at what they do: timecode sync, console programming, cue calling. But there was never a shared space upstream of all that. A place to block the show before anyone touches a console.

That's the gap. Not show control — show design. The part where you decide what should happen, beat by beat, department by department, and make sure everyone is reading from the same version.

So we built EdiTour

EdiTour is a collaborative timeline for show design. You log in, grid out your tracks, and lay the show out beat by beat — the way music is actually structured, in bars and phrases, not raw milliseconds. Lasers, lighting, visuals, and management all live on one canvas.

When the laser op moves a cue, the whole team sees it instantly. The artist can open a link, look at exactly where things are lining up, and drop in edits or suggestions without downloading anything or chasing a file thread. There's a real approval flow, so a director can sign off on a department instead of reconstructing it from memory at rehearsal.

It replaces the spreadsheet, not your console. It's the planning layer that sits in front of every execution tool you already trust. If you've ever wished there was one tool that was actually built for show design — not retrofitted from video editing or project management — this is the one we wanted to exist for a decade, so we made it.

Why we're sharing it here

Nice Lasers has always been about pushing what a show can be. EdiTour came directly out of that work — it's the tool we needed to keep designing the best shows we possibly could, and now it's something any team can use. If you build laser shows, light shows, or anything where multiple departments have to move as one, it was made for you.

It's early, it's growing fast, and the best feedback comes from people who actually do this work. Spin up a show, invite your team, and tell us where it falls short.