Lighting designer looking for a complete software-based lighting control desk will be thrilled with the Visual Productions Cuelux, an intuitive software controller that incorporates a wide range of exciting features and includes a dedicated USB to DMX interface. It is well suited for light jockeys, DJs, free-lance technicians, rental companies, and touring bands.
The software delivers a DMX 512 lighting controller for intelligent lights, LED, dimmers, lasers, and various other effects. The program is platform independent and works on macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu Linux. The software is specifically designed to reduce the learning curve, getting you up and running quickly and easily.
Benefits
- macOS, Windows & Ubuntu Linux
- Multi-core CPU optimized software engine
- Industry-standard cuelist system
- Plug-&-Play MIDI controller mapping
- 100% touchscreen compatible
- 512 channels DMX512 + Art-Net
- 48 fixtures (10 sub-fixtures per fixture)
- Unlimited cuelists
- Unlimited groups and sub-masters
- 64 playback faders + 64 playback buttons
- USB joystick support
- Shape generator
- Remote App for iOS and Android
- Multi language
- 4500+ Personality files
- 32-bit and 64-bit hardware drivers
- Editor for Personality files
Cuelux2 USB to DMX Interface
- The Cuelux software is shipped with the Cuelux2 USB to DMX interface. The interface sends out 512 channels through a ESD protected 3-pin DMX-512 port. Once the hardware interface is plugged in your computer the DMX data is duplicated over Art-Net. This is also useful for connecting to third-party visualizers.
Cuelist System
- The cuelist system in Cuelux, used for programming light sequences, is analogous to the systems used on larger lighting consoles like Wholehog or GrandMa. It features separate Delay, Fade in & Fade out timing, and comes with a shape generator and programmer window.
MIDI Control Surfaces
- Cuelux offers plug-and-play support of MIDI control surfaces to provide you with low-cost ‘hands-on’ fader control. For example, the Behringer X-Touch Compact is fully supported including feedback to the motorized faders
Touchscreen Compatible
- All controls in Cuelux’ user-interface are large enough for finger control. There is no requirement for right mouse-clicks or a physical QWERTY keyboard, as the software will pop up a Visual Keyboard when needed.
4500+ Personality Files
- Cuelux is shipped with a vast amount of personality files (sometimes referred to as ‘fixture profiles’) that covers all popular brands from Abstract to Zap Technologies and everything in between.
- Cuelux is accompanied by the ‘Builder’; our free-of-charge application for creating and editing personality files.
- Visual Productions offers a free service for creating any personality file that might be missing.
Sub-Fixtures
Cuelux uses the concept of sub-fixtures. This means that some fixtures consist of multiple sub-fixtures, like a 10-channel dimmer rack is a single fixture with 10 sub-fixtures. This also works for LED fixtures with multiple segments/pixels. In this manner, the maximum of 48 will not be reached that quickly (you can add 48 x 10 = 480 dimmer channels). The reason behind the concept of sub-fixtures is that it makes patching easier; you only add the physical fixtures to your patch and you don't have to worry about setting starting addresses per dimmer channel, or worse, per LED segment.