Cue-driven show engine
Build a list of cues — color, brightness, speed, a crossfade in — each active over its own window. Loop the whole show, or run it once start to finish.
Built by AI Administrator Limited
Cue-driven laser shows,
built for real hardware.
Author a show once with time-coded cues and crossfades. ShowLight runs it live — holding a cue on the beat when you ask it to, nudging intensity to the music as it plays, and streaming every frame straight to your ILDA/IDN laser projectors.
Currently in development. Windows engine, multi-laser aware, no cloud required.
Time-coded, but the music still gets a vote.
Most show software makes you choose: a fixed timeline you can trust, or pure audio-reactivity with no predictable structure. ShowLight's cue engine is hybrid by design — your show keeps a known length and order, but any cue can hold its entry open until the next detected beat, and the active cue's intensity rides the music in real time underneath that. Plan the set. Let the room still breathe.
What's inside
Hybrid audio trigger
Mark any cue to hold past its scheduled start until the next detected onset, so a drop lands on the beat instead of the clock. Every active cue can also breathe brighter with the live mix.
Real-time audio reactivity
Bass, mid, treble, and overall level map independently onto scale, rotation, brightness, and point density — tune the sensitivity per band and watch the pattern respond as you play.
Multi-laser venue preview
Place several virtual units in a 3D venue before a single cable is run — preview each one's own aim, or point them all at one shared target and see the beam-crossing math before it's real.
Native ILDA/IDN protocol
Speaks the same RJ45 ILDA/IDN-Stream protocol your projector already expects — no intermediate DAC, no extra translation layer between the show and the galvos.
Drop-in Madrix bridge
Bidirectional OSC/Art-Net cue triggering, so ShowLight can sit alongside an existing Madrix-driven rig instead of replacing it.
Drag-to-edit timeline
Drag a cue's body to move it, its edge to resize it, right on a visual strip with a live playhead — built to be edited at the bench, not hand-written in a config file.
Safety-first workflow
A pre-show checklist gate and a rough scan-failure exposure estimate, built from your projector's own rated power and divergence — a planning aid alongside your LSO's own sign-off, never a replacement for it.
How it stacks up
We're not trying to out-feature a decade of Pangolin tooling on day one — here's an honest read on where ShowLight stands today.
| Capability | ShowLight | Pangolin QuickShow / BEYOND |
|---|---|---|
| Time-coded show / cue engine | Yes | Yes |
| Audio-reactive, hybrid beat-hold trigger | Yes | Partial (BPM-sync add-ons) |
| Multi-laser 3D venue preview | Yes | Yes |
| Native ILDA/IDN streaming | Yes | Yes |
| Madrix bridge (OSC/Art-Net) | Yes | Via third-party bridges |
| .ild file import/export | Coming soon | Yes |
| Projector geometric correction | Coming soon | Yes |
| Camera-based auto-calibration | Coming soon | Yes |
| Mature third-party ecosystem | Early | Yes |
Pricing
Beta pricing isn't locked yet — here's the shape of it.
Free trial
Free
The full cue engine and live preview, time-limited per session, for getting a feel for it on the bench before you buy.
Full license
One-time purchase
Unlocks everything, no subscription, no recurring renewal to keep your show running on the night. Exact price announced at launch.
Want in on the beta?
ShowLight is still in active development. If you run laser hardware and want to try it early, or just want to be notified at launch, drop us a line.
contact@showlight.app