DMX Software
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A common name thrown about here is ChamSys MagicQ. It is often paired with something from Enttec.
And for your continued reading, searching for "DMX Software" in the search bar above produces countless threads where we've already covered this extensively.
A common name thrown about here is ChamSys MagicQ. It is often paired with something from Enttec.
And for your continued reading, searching for "DMX Software" in the search bar above produces countless threads where we've already covered this extensively.
bishopthomas
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ChamSys MagicQ isn't actually "open source" but it is free and very powerful. You'll find it has a fairly steep learning curve, but you can do a lot with it. You'll also find fairly quickly that you want to spend the $1000 or so to purchase one of their add on wing panels. But that's how they make their money.
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Judge
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What are your plans for it? If you are going to be running lights at a party from your laptop the MagicQ is overkill. However if you really want to learn about lighting control and have a brilliant bit of free software then MagicQ is yer man for sure. It is proper grown-up software, the same as is used in their consoles.
Bubby4j
Active Member
I've really enjoyed using freestyler, it's fairly easy to use once you read the manual and powerful enough to do some cool stuff with it. Completely free, I suggest a enttec pro dongle for it.
dgoodmanedberg
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I'll second D::Light. It's surprisingly powerful, free, intuitive (though the manual is not that great), and has fantastic Midi functionality so you can run everything off of Qlab, for example, on one computer. I've been using it for a bunch of stuff recently. It does require the Enttec DMX USB Pro, though.
It doesn't really deal with devices, though. (I think that's coming in a later release)
It doesn't really deal with devices, though. (I think that's coming in a later release)
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I use PC Dimmer 2012 and DMX Control with my Enttec Pro. Both are free and PC Dimmer is open source.
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