Captivate

Captivate Logo (a red, green, and blue cube)

Lighting & Visual Synth

Captivate

Captivate Logo (a red, green, and blue cube)

Lighting & Visual Synth

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Captivate Logo (a red, green, and blue cube)

Live DMX Lighting and Visuals

This is how visual creation is supposed to feel

Synchronized with Ableton Link

You can also synchronize manually with tap tempo. Or wait for our upcoming live beat-detection feature!

Free & Open Source

View the code on Github

Add Dimension To Your DMX Universe

Configure your dmx universe in minutes.

Tell Captivate which fixtures you have, and where they are located in space.

Add fixtures seamlessly, without the need to update scenes.

Breathtaking Lighting

With captivate, hundreds of DMX channels boil down to a handful of intuitive parameters

Take control of these parameters live, or automate them with Captivate's familiar, synth-like modulation tools.

Light groups allow you to add complexity as needed

Stunning Visuals

Combine visualizers and effects in any way to perfect your visual experience

Add your own videos and photos to create something truly unique

Visualizers and effects listen to the parameters from the active light scene so lighing and visuals are automatically synchronized.

Streamlined Complexity

With Captivate, you'll forget there are 512 DMX channels running behind then scenes

Powerful Midi Control

Plug in a midi controller to "play" your lights like an instrument.

So Intuitive that someone with no lighting experience can control a show.

And this is just the beginning

We have lots of ideas to make Captivate more powerful, flexible, and fun

Lighting
  • Share scenes with other captivate users
  • More parameters
  • More & improved modulators
  • Macro Controls
Visuals
  • More & improved visualizations
  • Visualizer layers
  • Projection Mapping
Automation
  • Automated Beatmatching
  • AI Automated Paramter Control
Hardware
  • Official DMX USB Interface
  • Standalone DMX Controller (For running scenes without a computer)

How It Started

I've been a musician all my life. Music is fun and dynamic. But lighting software has always been static, clunky, and unintuitive. This forces artists to choose between a pre-defined light show that locks you into a set, or a light show that doesn't fit the music.

Captivate solves these issues. Everything is in sync, I can take as much live control as I'd like, and adding fixtures to my DMX universe is a piece of cake.

The end result is an app that's incredibly fun to use. And the results truly are captivating.

Spenser Saling, Captivate Creator

Spenser Saling, Creator

Required Equipment

Captivate runs on MacOS 10.11 (El Capitan) and up. Windows and Linux support coming soon

For DMX Lighting

Captivate is designed to work with the ENNTEC USB Pro or the DMX King Ultra DMX Micro

For Visuals

Captivate's Visualizer Engine runs best on a computer with a dedicated GPU.

Checkout out the Recommended Equipment page for more info

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Captivate is beta software under active development. Use at your own risk