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Seen at #USITT: plotLight, Online Paperwork Management Software

Written By: Justin Lang on March 15, 2011

Something new that shown at USITT 2011 in Charlotte was plotLight. At it’s simplest form, plotLight is an online paperwork management softwork tool for the lighting professional. At plotLight’s core is the plotLight BRAIN, a complex machine-learning application that combines data-mining with advanced Bayesian logic. Each plotLight project combines plotLight BRAIN components with your project’s [...]

Chameleon Lighting Software Releases V1 RC8 with New Features

Written By: Justin Lang on February 22, 2011

Back in November, I mentioned a new lighting software title out there for the Mac called Chameleon. Looks like development of the software is coming along nicely with the release of Version 1.0 RC8. This release fixes a few bugs, includes the new USB drivers from FTDI (fully compatible with the 10.6.5 release now), and [...]

Martin LightJockey 2 Gets Repackaged

Written By: John Hathcock on February 18, 2011

From MartinPro.com: Martin Professional’s PC-based lighting software, LightJockey 2, is now shipping with the new Martin One-Key™ protection device, one Martin USB DUO DMX™ and the MSD5™ MC Edition 3D Visualizer. Martin also announces a LightJockey hardware replacement program. Through the program, old LightJockey hardware from an ISA PC card to a Universal USB device [...]

DraftSight: A Free CAD Software for Your DWG Files

Written By: Justin Lang on February 16, 2011

A college buddy sent me a note about DraftSight, a CAD software title for both the Mac and PC. I have not downloaded or even touched the software as there are a number of things on my plate right now. But the title on the DraftSight webpage struck me… DraftSight: Free CAD Software * for [...]

MA Lighting Releases grandMA Software 2.2.0 [6.6]

Written By: Justin Lang on February 14, 2011

MA Lighting just announced the release of their latest software update for the grandMA2 control surface. The update is intended for the the entire range of MA Lighting products, the grandMA 2 desk, grandMA 3D and MA VPU hardware devices. Some of the new features: New help functions. Backup menu, load only “userprofiles” Better work [...]

New iOS App On Its Way: FreeStyler DMX Remote

Written By: Justin Lang on February 9, 2011

A new lighting app to hit the iTunes App Store in the next couple of weeks will be the FreeStyler DMX Remote App. You may have heard of the Windows based software title, FreeStyler. The upcoming iOS app will be a companion app to the Windows software and requires version 3.3.2 of FreeStyler. Get ready [...]

ETC Releases Eos Family Software Update 1.9.6 – Critical Update From 1.9.5

Written By: Justin Lang on January 29, 2011

Say What, I just updated my desk to Eos Family Software 1.9.5 just last week! It happens from time to time, software goes out and has a glitch, but, ETC’s awesome users, programmers and tech services gurus caught the bugs. The offical statement about the update from ETC’s release notes: The purpose of this release [...]

The Student Design Competition is Officially OPEN

Written By: Justin Lang on January 28, 2011

Yup, it is January 28th. That means that the student design competition is open! While the competition just started, I don’t expect many students to start submitting their design work right now. I highly recommend taking your time, you have almost all of spring semester! Heck, the competition doesn’t close until April 15th. That doesn’t [...]

ETC Announces Eos Family Software Update – v1.9.5

Written By: John Hathcock on January 17, 2011

This morning ETC announced the long anticipated, and until 2.0 comes out, most significant update to the Eos family of consoles: software version 1.9.5. The biggest update included in v1.9.5 is the addition of the Virtual Media Server. The VMS allows the creation of grids of fixture, to which static and animated images can be [...]

VirtualLightDesk App Added to Mac App Store

Written By: Justin Lang on January 17, 2011

Mac Developer Thomas Günzel has the release of VirtualLightDesk app to the Mac App Store. VirtualLightDesk is a 24 channel console that runs on the Mac platform. In order to output from the software to any DMX device, you will need the Enttec Open DMX USB interface. The VitualLightDesk app has the ability to operate [...]

Synthe FX Release New iPad & iPhone iOS App and LCompanion Software

Written By: Justin Lang on January 7, 2011

Synthe FX has been hard at work these past couple of months. First updating the iPhone app of Luminair and then releasing Luminair for the iPad. Now with the release of the Mac App Store, Synthe FX has been working over time to bring even more updates to the iOS apps along with the LCompanion [...]

DMXRef App added to Mac App Store

Written By: Justin Lang on January 7, 2011

Yesterday, Apple opened up the Mac App Store. With the Launch of the new store, there are already a bunch of software titles added to the store. For us, there are already a hand full of lighting software titles available. One of them being the DMXRef app for mac. The DMXRef software is from the [...]

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