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Lights Up!

At a glance

Software for theatre and live music

Runs onWindows

  • Easy to learnIdeal for small theater productions
  • WINDOWSXP / 7 / 8 / 10 / 11
  • Simple fader consoleEach dimmer channel directly accessible
  • Music-synchronous lighting controlExactly matching the music light show
  • 512 DMX channels
  • fader panel
  • Easy operation

Easy to learn DMX software with a clear fader desk.

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Versions

Which version suits whom?

Lights Up! is available in three versions on SourceForge. Nothing new has been released since 7 November 2018. For almost everyone, version 1.2 is the right one.

Version Who it is for What sets it apart Requirements
Lights Up! 1.27 November 2018Recommended Everyone starting today — theatre group, school stage, community hall. The latest version. It brings the newer driver file that matches current drivers. No installer: unzip and run. Windows, ENTTEC Open DMX USB with driver
Lights Up! 1.116 July 2011 Anyone who wants an installer with a Start menu entry, as described in the manual. The first finished version after the test builds: “DMX Freeze” and fade times of up to 300 seconds. According to the author its driver file no longer matches current drivers. Windows, ENTTEC Open DMX USB with driver
Lights Up! 1.028 December 2005 Only for the curious and for developers. The first version from 2005. Its source code (C++) is available as a separate archive. No separate statement by the author

The short answer

  • You are starting fresh: Lights Up! 1.2 — unzip and go.
  • You would rather have an installer: Lights Up! 1.1.
  • You want to look at the code: The source code of version 1.0.

48 faders, 512 channels — how does that fit?

Lights Up! has 48 on-screen faders. Each of them can be assigned to any of the 512 DMX addresses, even to several at once. Out of the box the 48 faders control addresses 1 to 48; if you need more, you rearrange them in the channel map. For a theatre with dimmers that is usually plenty — for many fixtures with many channels it gets tight.

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Lights Up! 1.2

Version 1.2 · 198.4 kB · 7 November 2018

The current version as a ZIP, without installer: unzip, start LightsUp!.exe.

File: Lights Up!-v1.2-noInstaller.zip

The file “LIGHTS UP v1.2 Instructions.pdf” in this archive is not a manual but a second copy of the program. The real manual is further down.

Folder of this file on SourceForge

Manual and source code

Background

More about Lights Up!

What Lights Up! is

Lights Up! is a Windows program for running the lighting of plays and musicals. It was programmed by Terry Wells; the manual is by Jonathan Keren-Black. It is free, licensed under the GPL version 2 and has been on SourceForge since December 2005, where it has been downloaded 32,898 times to date.

It works like a simple theatre desk: you set a lighting state with the faders, store it as a cue and fade from cue to cue during the show — by hand or with a fixed time of up to 300 seconds. “DMX Freeze” lets you edit cues without changing the light on stage.

What you need for it

A Windows computer, a DMX interface with its driver and a DMX cable. The manual points out that many fixtures have 3-pin XLR sockets while the interface may be 5-pin — in that case you need an adapter.

Together with our interfaces

Lights Up! is written for the ENTTEC Open DMX USB: according to the author’s release notes, the driver file ftd2xx.dll in the package was taken from that interface’s driver package. USB2DMX PRO and USB2DMX OPTO run in other programs via the same Open DMX driver model — the DMXControl wiki lists them that way, for example.

The author does not mention Art-Net. For the AIR2DMX PRO, which receives DMX over Wi-Fi via Art-Net, Lights Up! is therefore not the right partner.

Where to read on

This program comes from its respective manufacturer and is maintained and downloaded there. JMS Pro Light does not distribute it.

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