Lightkey

Lightkey

Lightkey is professional DMX lighting control software for creative and theater productions. It offers intuitive control of DMX lighting fixtures, intelligent color mixing, lighting scenes, and automated shows.
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Lightkey: Professional DMX Lighting Control Software

Lightkey is professional DMX lighting control software for creative and theater productions. It offers intuitive control of DMX lighting fixtures, intelligent color mixing, lighting scenes, and automated shows.

What is Lightkey?

Lightkey is a powerful yet easy to use lighting control software designed for demanding professional applications like theater, TV, events, architecture, education and more. It enables intuitive control of complex DMX lighting setups with features like:

  • Real-time control of DMX fixtures like moving heads, LED lights, color changers, dimmers, lasers and more
  • Advanced effects like pixel mapping, matrix control, fixture grouping with quick palettes
  • Automated show programming with timeline, fixtures library and pixel mapper timeline
  • Support for visualizers to simulate complex stage lighting
  • Fixtures profiles library with thousands of fixtures from all major lighting manufacturers
  • Works with affordable USB and Art-Net DMX interfaces
  • Cross-platform support for Windows, macOS and Linux

With its modern and intuitive user interface focused on optimized workflows, Lightkey aims to offer powerful yet surprisingly easy professional DMX control for demanding users.

Lightkey Features

Features

  1. DMX lighting control
  2. Intuitive interface
  3. Color mixing
  4. Lighting scenes
  5. Automated shows

Pricing

  • Free version
  • One-time purchase

Pros

Powerful lighting control features

Easy to learn and use

Affordable for small productions

Good for theater, events, DJs

Cons

Steep learning curve for advanced features

Limited fixture library

Only controls lighting, not sound or video


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