Features

Every part of the app, and what it is actually for.

Everything the app does, and what each part is for.

GDTF makers

No fixture file for your light? Load the manufacturer's PDF manual and the built-in AI writes the GDTF file for you - or enter the channels yourself with the Simple GDTF Maker.

Making a GDTF fixture file in Simple DMX Controller

Timeline editor

Drop recorded palettes onto tracks and set when they play. Good for an unattended show that runs all evening, and for rehearsing a set before doors.

Timeline editor

Colour mixing

Two colour pickers, and the option to spread a colour across a selected group of fixtures. Want fader control over the output instead? Use the fixture faders.

Colour mixing and spread

Lighting effects

Bring a fixture to life in a few clicks. Every effect can be recorded as a palette or parked on a scene fader for instant playback.

Automatic dimmer effect

Pixel strip control

Turn RGB and RGBW strips and LED bars into moving displays, with built-in effects and full per-pixel control when you want it.

Pixel strip effects

Fixture faders

Set the level of every channel by hand. With a fully built GDTF file each fader is labelled with what the channel actually does.

Fixture channel faders

Colour palettes

Save as many palettes as you like, sorted into categories. Colour palettes show the output colour and gobo palettes show the gobo shape, so you pick by eye.

Colour and gobo palettes

Pan and tilt

Get fixtures moving quickly, then apply offsets or invert pan and tilt for more interesting movement. Faders limit the range; a scroll wheel handles coarse and fine adjustment.

Pan and tilt position control

Remote control

A built-in web remote and a stand-alone app let anyone on the local network drive faders, palettes and scenes from a phone, tablet or laptop.

Remote control from app and browser

Saving scenes and shows

Save options let you control exactly what each palette or scene fader stores, so you can stack them into bigger looks without them fighting each other.

Save options

Scene faders

Make as many scene faders as you want, and decide per fader exactly which part of the rig it adjusts.

User-defined scene faders

MIDI control

Hands-on control with the Akai APC Mini MK2. Select a button, hit Assign, press the button on the controller - that is the whole mapping process.

Assigning MIDI control

Overview windows

Extra windows for the whole DMX universe, running effects and per-fixture information, so you can see what the rig is doing at a glance.

Extra overview windows

Settings

There are not many, on purpose. Pick a USB device from a dropdown or type the IP of an Art-Net node, and you are outputting.

Settings

Supported hardware

Not locked to a brand: all Art-Net devices and many popular USB-to-DMX adapters. There is a good chance you already own something that works.

Supported DMX hardware

All of it, free, in 2-hour sessions.

No trial version and no locked features. Install it and try the lot.

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