White Cat is a new project of software for lighting in danse, theatre and concerts fields. It is actually traditional lights oriented ( dimmers).

The White cat design strives to make it simple to use, and to give light technicians, light designers, videos artists and artists in general, a comfortable, easy, and useful tool, that answers many environmental and work situations.

• Manual approach ( masters , video tracking)
• Cue approach ( Cue List and Automations)
• Multi-software approach( midi talking and remote control, dmx In and Art-Net merging )

White Cat proposes:

• a theatre oriented design
• a CueList
• an electronic patch (512 gradas) with 16 customizable curves
• 4 channel macros per channel
• a powerful automations handler working inside the CueList, enabling encapsulating events such has audio, channel-time effects,call of many internal functions, chasers, etc….
• a 4x audio player to the stereo output
• 48 faders of 6 docks, recordable on the fly (channels, memories, dynamicals contents…), with integrated times, cirves and LFOs. Faders are usable with mouse, midi, and maybe automated.
• several modes of calculation between faders ( substract, add, screen, exclusion)
• ability to create fader groups
• 128 chasers of 24 tracks, for on the fly usage, by mouse or midi, build on music-sequencer's design
• a trichromy/quadrichromy wheel with 8 color-preset to handle RGB or RGBY traditionnal spots
• 4 GridPlayers, enabling complexs lighting effects
• tracking video aka Air-Lighting to be use with any webcam
• built in Lighting Plot editor, enabling patching from plot
• drawing lights on stage in a performance with your iOs device
• ASCII Usitt export import , import of schwartzpeter shows
• PDF export of your show
• possibility to modify in stack channel and memories (wizard menu)
• a remote for iPod/Phone and iPad, based on the free app Fantastick
• Art-Net in and merging for multi-software use
• Double dmx output ( usb + art-net) to remote other softs in art-net (Arkaos, VVVV )
• midi in and out ( remoted and remoting)
• midi retrolightning
• evoluated midi mute for non motorized midi surfaces
• possibility to modifier in stack channel and memories (wizard menu)
• arduino communication: Duemillanove (log. 0.18), and UNO ( log 0.22), enabling you to connect easely to electronci devices, in usb, ethernet or RF ( jeenodes )
• retrolighting Midi feedback for Launchpad and others devices
• arduino serial communication built in, for easy remoting and receiving of electronics
• an complete set of sketches for the arduino, including art-net protocol
• a vvvv set of patches for lighting with a videoprojector

Dmx interfaces supported:

Art-Net protocol / Enttec Pro / Enttec Open / Velleman K8062 / Sunlite 8C / usbdmx512online.net

White Cat Website (French with English Link)