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Lighting/Video/Audio Tools

A curated list of software and resources for lighting, video, and audio professionals and hobbyists.

Curated list of audiovisual projects

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Awesome Audiovisual / Lighting / Lighting Software
Avolites Titan PC version of the Titan software which runs on the Avolites desk. Free to use until version 11.4 although it spits out random data once in a while. Requires a dongle from version 12.
Chamsys MagicQ MagiQ is a professional lighting software providing up to 64 Artnet universes for free. It includes powerful features like 2D/3D pixel mapping, effect generator, media server and visualizer
Daslight DMX lighting software for PC and Mac
Dot2 software Free, offline software for the Dot2 consoles. Includes Dot2 onPC and Dot2 3D
EOS Family Software for ETC's EOS-family consoles.
Freestyler Free lightning control software
GrandMA2 software Free, offline software for the GrandMA2 lighting console. Includes GrandMA2 OnPC and MA3D. Does not output DMX for free.
GrandMA3 software Free, offline software for the GrandMA3 lighting console. Includes GrandMA3 OnPC. Does not output DMX for free.
Hog 4 software Free, offline software for the Hog 4 lighting console. Includes Hog 4 pc. Does not output DMX for free.
LightFactory PC Lighting Control software witch also is the backend of the NEO Console.
ONYX Modern lighting control system with alot of features
QLC+ QLC+ is a free and cross-platform software to control DMX or analog lighting systems like moving heads, dimmers, scanners etc.
xLights Meant for home Christmas light shows but is a great way to sync lights to music on a budget.

Awesome Audiovisual / Lighting / Visualizers
Capture Documentation and visualisation software. Capture is a native macOS and Windows application that lets you work with lighting, video, laser, moving scenery and water effects. Does have a free Student Edition.
Depence² Depence² is a unique application, which combines the design and visualization process with the potential to control the real show.
Ma3D lighting visualizer for GrandMA consoles/software
wysiwyg wysiwyg is an all-in-one lighting design software with fully integrated CAD, plots, data, visualization and virtual show control.

Awesome Audiovisual / Audio / Audio Software
Audacity Audio file editor and analysis tool, great for cropping down sound effects and music tracks.
Ardour A full realtime audio recording and editing suite.
da-Share MultiPlay MultiPlay is a Windows based program designed to play audio cues for theatre or corporate use. It is free to use
Linux Show Player Free cue player designed for stage productions.
QLab QLab is sound, video, and lighting control for macOS.
REAPER REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.

Awesome Audiovisual / Audio / Audio tools
ARTA A collection of programs for audio measurements and analysis
REW REW is free room acoustics analysis software for measuring and analysing room and loudspeaker responses. Free SMAART alternative

Awesome Audiovisual / Tools
Livescript 5 almost 5 years ago Insert a musical/theatre-script from Google Docs and use this for a live "autocue" and scroller with everyone on the site.
Ontime 494 5 days ago Browser-based application that manages event rundowns, scheduling, and cueing. Plan, track your schedule, manage automation and cross-department show information in one place.
stagetimer.io Browser-based remote-controlled countdown timer.

Awesome Audiovisual / Tools / CADs
AutoCAD AutoCAD® is computer-aided design (CAD) software that architects, engineers, and construction professionals rely on to create precise 2D and 3D drawings.
Vectorworks Vectorworks is a versatile, on-premise application that provides extensive 2D drafting, 3D modeling, BIM and rendering capabilities for your architectural and landscape design needs. Also had a special entertainment version: .

Awesome Audiovisual / Tools / Timecode
El-Tee-See LTC wav file generator
TCgenerator 3 over 4 years ago Reaper time marker to GrandMA2 TC Generator.
Timecode 38 3 days ago ArtNet and LTC timecode generator, made with Java.
Time MIDI sender 2 almost 2 years ago A free tool for sending time data to DasLight (via MIDI).
TimelordMTC Advanced timecode management tool.
M2Q 11 over 3 years ago Python application capable to trigger Chamsys Consoles/Software via MIDI for advanced synchronized shows.

Awesome Audiovisual / Tools / Monitoring
AES67 WebMeter 8 almost 5 years ago Server that receives an AES67 audio stream and presents a webpage with meters.
meters.lv2 188 5 months ago meters.lv2 is a collection of audio-level meters with GUI in LV2 plugin format.
Open Sound Meter Clean, open-source sound meter. Supports RTA, magnitude, phase and impulse response, coherence, group delay and more.

Awesome Audiovisual / Libraries and frameworks
Open Lighting Architecture A framework for lighting control information. Supports a range of protocols and over a dozen of USB devices
node-dmx 300 3 months ago DMX controller library for Node.js.

Awesome Audiovisual / Libraries and frameworks / ArtNet Libraries
artnet 123 about 5 years ago Node.js module that can be used to send ArtDMX packages to an Art-Net node.
artnet4j 95 6 months ago Art-Net library for Java and Processing.

Awesome Audiovisual / Graphics
GIMP GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for Linux, Windows, and macOS
Inkscape Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Linux, Windows and macOS

Awesome Audiovisual / Management
Rentman Cloud rental software for AV & Event companies. Resource planning, scheduling and more

Awesome Audiovisual / Resources
Chamsys Programmers and Users facebook group The best place to find information about Chamsys consoles and software
Christian Jackson YouTube channel about concert lighting. Also has great MA tutorials
ESTA Technical Standards Program Collection of technical standards in the entertainment technology industry
Geezers of Gear Entertainment Production Industry veteran talking about pro-audio, lighting, staging, video + the people and companies who work in this great industry
@limelightwired Lighting production community on Instagram
awesome-linuxaudio 1,395 about 1 month ago A Awesome list with all things Linux audio
QLab Cookbook The cookbook is a collection of projects, examples, and experiments using a broad range of QLab programming techniques including AppleScript, OSC, external control using QLab Remote, third-party MIDI and OSC controllers, and other software
/r/lightingdesign The Reddit community for lighting designers worldwide
/r/techtheatre The reddit community for all production designers and technicians!

Awesome Audiovisual / Resources / Blogs
mikewoodld.com/blog/ Blog of Lighting Designer Mike Wood
notelek.com/blog/ LXR Stage Technology Blog

Awesome Audiovisual / Tutorials / GrandMA2 tutorials
GMA2 colour picker tutorial A tutorial for how to add a colour picker in GrandMA2

Awesome Audiovisual / Misc/other
Blender ArtNet 38 over 1 year ago Blender script to push ArtNet data to Evee lights. Runs at 30fps with Evee rendering in the viewport.
Linux A free operating system that can run on pretty much every kind of computer and is great for breathing new life into old computers that aren't supported by the newer Windows editions. There's tons of different distributions to choose from,. The most common one for general computer stuff is .
MIDI Monster 504 5 months ago MIDIMonster is a universal control and translation tool. It can translate between many different protocols such as MIDI, Artnet, sACN and OSC.
UsedLighting Marketplace for buying/selling used lighting hardware

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