Free Software

Stephen Dean a technician from Australia recently posted on his blog “Ramblings of a Techie” a great article on a couple of free software programs for Lighting and Sound designers.  Lighting Design by theatre-freeware.peartreeuk.com and Multi Play by audiovisualdevices.com.au are both avaible free and for the windows operating system. For a full look at the at this software check out Stephen’s Post

For those on the Macintosh Platform I recently found LX Tools by Claude Heintz Design. Claude was the creator of Mac Lux Pro, which was the first light plot software I had ever used.  LX Tools is a free program that gives you a basic drafting and paperwork program.  I installed it and found it fairly easy to use, and if you get stuck there is a great online help page.  LX free also has a professional version LX series pro, pricing is yet to be posted.  Site license pricing is not set.  It will probably be in the neighborhood of $299 for any number of computers at a site per year.”.

Once i downloaded the program it did not take long to get a light plot up below is the work of about 15 minutes on the program.