Nowadays, most of the stage lighting software?s utilize the DMX512. DMX512 is a protocol for communicating with the lighting hardware. The adapters to connect the DMX512 hardware to your personal computer or parallel ports are available widely.

The different stage lighting software?s are:

Freestyler- it controls all the different DMX512 equipments like the dimmers, moving heads and scans. It is compatible with many DMX interfaces. The special features of freestyler are there are about 512 fixtures and 15 interfaces supported, it is touch screen compatible, MIDI support and houses a build-in chaser for par cans.

Shmithz- It is a very simple control desk having two presets, sixteen channels and a cue list. The abuelites support 512 channels along with the twenty submasters and two chasers. It offers a channels patch, cue list and a keyboard channel entry.

Q light Controller- it is a free alternative for commercial lighting hardware and software. It s aim is to make a software that ca be utilized for controlling any type of the lighting equipment. It is an easy to use device-oriented interface. It can control about 512 DMX/Analog channels through DMX Linux per universe.

Open DMX Theater- this is a simple and an effective light mixer program. It sends out the DMX signals to the scans, moving heads, dimmers, etc. it features documentation in PDF format. The faders can be controlled easily with the help of the keyboard shortcuts. You can also set the DMX outspeed as frames per second.

Lite Design- this is an open source and free computer aided design tool. It helps in designing the sets of the stage lights. It is usually used at lighting for the theatre productions, but can also be used defectively for any type of stage lighting.

Lights Up- this is a windows application to control the theater lights at the time when the music or the plays are performed. It also supports the open DMX USB interface. Manolator is another stage lighting software. It is control software for the different channels of DMX interfaces.

DMX control- it is very effective and one of the intelligent stage light control applications for your computer. It displays impressive light shadows through the shape editor, audio player and S2L. It gives you the graphical representation of your total stage setup, so that you get a brief idea about it and can select the devices quickly.