BlinderKitten

BlinderKitten is a free lighting software designed to be used during live events or theater. Unlike other lighting softwares, there is no restrictions that you can lift by paying or buying a dongle. Everything is available, unrestricted and free.

The software is "fixture-oriented", that means that you don't have to learn and control each DMX channel by hand like in a traditionnal lighting desk, here, you just have to tell BlinderKitten what kind of device you're using (called a fixture type), add one fixture per device patched on your stage, fill the address in the fixture and BlinderKitten have now full control of your device. You can now have a control of your channels by moving the channels encoders corresponding to your needs.

Every composition you make with your fixtures can be recorded in a cuelist, containing one cue by composition. you can define timing to go from one to others and act like a conductor, and also can have multiple cuelists working together, respecting LTP and HTP priorities. Cuelists are a center component of BlinderKitten, they have lot of options and usages.

There is currently three functions to add automatic behaviors to your fixtures : effects, carousels and mappers. Effects use a curve to add values to you fixtures, Carousels use key values, both of them spread your fixtures and loop to add movement to your values. Mappers apply a value depending another value for each selected fixture. They allow you for example to change yout fixture's color depending of its intensity.

To render your creations, ou have a virtual faders panel and a virtual button panel. As BlinderKitten doesn't have a physical console, there is no limitation on the number of buttons or faders. You can also set the number of buttons above and below each fader.