Run a real light show without learning a console.
Simple DMX Controller is Windows software for scenes, faders, timeline, effects and MIDI. Add your fixtures, plug in any interface, and you are running lights in an evening.
Free in unlimited 2-hour sessions · No feature limits · $29.99/year to remove the timer
Load the fixture manual, get a fixture file back.
No GDTF file for your light? Load the manufacturer's manual into SDC and the built-in AI reads the DMX chart and writes the fixture file for you - channels named, modes set, palettes ready. Check it, adjust anything odd, patch it.
Who it's for
Built for people who run the lights themselves.
Big consoles assume a programmer and a week of prep. Whether the rig is in a car boot or bolted to the ceiling, you just need it to look right tonight.
Mobile DJs
Save one show file, load it at the next venue. Scene faders and effects are ready before the first guest walks in.
Small venues and bars
A fixed rig on a cheap dedicated PC, running a timeline all night. Bar staff can change the look from a phone.
New to DMX
Step-by-step guides from your first cable to your first chase. If you can use a computer, you can use SDC.
How it works
Four steps from download to first cue.
Features
Everything you actually use on a show night.
No programming syntax, no macro language. Scenes, colour, movement and effects are one click away, and the whole rig stays visible while you work.
Colour and gobos, no channel maths
Pick a colour and SDC works out RGB, white and amber for every fixture in the selection, even when they are different models. Save the good ones as palettes.
- → Mixed-fixture selections matched automatically
- → User-defined colour and gobo palettes
- → Pan and tilt with position palettes
Scene faders you built yourself
Park any look, effect or fixture group on a fader. Bring them up together, cross between them, or hand the whole bank to a MIDI controller.
- → Scene, fixture and group faders side by side
- → MIDI mapping and Akai APC Mini support
- → Remote control from phone, tablet or laptop
Effects and pixel strips in a few clicks
Chases, colour cycles, gobo shifts and pixel-mapped strip effects come as presets you adjust with sliders: speed, size, direction, offset. Then park them on a fader.
- → Chase, colour and gobo effect generators
- → Pixel strip mapping with per-pixel control
- → Timeline playback for unattended shows
Overview
See the whole rig, not one fixture at a time.
Colours, DMX values, output levels and fixture status all on screen together. When something looks wrong on stage, you find it without clicking through a patch list.
Hardware
Nothing is locked to a brand.
Use the interface you already own, or the cheapest one that works. SDC talks to it the same way either way.
Pricing
Free is the whole app. Paid removes the timer.
No trial version, no locked features, no nag screens.
Free
Sessions of 2 hours, as often as you like
- ✓ Every feature, no limits
- ✓ Any USB or Art-Net hardware
- ✓ Save and reopen your show files
Licensed
Unlimited session length
- ✓ Runs all night without restarting
- ✓ Suits fixed installs and long sets
- ✓ Updates included for the year