SyntheFX has released Luminair, a utility application for iPhone and iPod touch. Luminair allows you to wirelessly control, view and manage intelligent DMX lighting fixtures and consoles straight from your handheld device. The touch-sensitive Mixer view, as well as the ability to set Art-Net node options and to manipulate color with Color Changer channel layout should impress quite a few theater / cinema managers.

"Using Artistic License's Art-Net protocol over your device's built-in Wi-Fi connection, Luminair communicates with other compatible hardware and software on your network," SyntheFX notes on its website. "A gorgeous user interface provides desktop-caliber features and performance, all on a mobile platform."

Gorgeous to say the least. Have a look!


According to the makers, the touch-board channel layout view lets you quickly set up the channel for all of your DMX fixtures. A multi-track, touch-enabled mixer controls with accurate precision, says SyntheFX. It doesn't matter whether you have one fixture, or one hundred, since data is displayed in realtime as a touch-scrollable overview of all channels. To see the current value, as well as the past 24 seconds of data in graph form, users simply need to select a specific channel. Best of all, fixtures, as well as entire projects can be saved and restored at any time. This lets you configure intelligent lighting networks with ease, especially using the built-in file manager. Selecting from the project and fixture preset files saved on your device can also enable the user to restore lighting settings for their next location, event, or mood.

Some of the most noteworthy benefits brought by Luminair include the following, according to SyntheFX:

- Auto-save and auto-restore retains the application state between uses;
- Status icon and view is always available for confirmation or troubleshooting connection settings;
- One input universe, one output universe;
- Ability to set Art-Net node options such as name, Subnet address, Input & Output address;
- Touch sensitive Mixer view, plus a traditional list view for manipulating the output universe;
- Master Black Out control;
- Unlimited output tracks;
- Create custom channel layouts;
- Realtime color manipulation with Color Changer channel layout;
- Set the output data rate in FPS;
- Sort through saved fixtures by Manufacturer and Model.

Luminair has been designed exclusively for use with Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. Users of either of the two devices (under OS 2.0) can visit the iTunes App Store and buy the software now. Luminair is priced at $99 (not the maximum pricing limit imposed by Apple, but certainly a bit expensive). SyntheFX is also offering a User Manual in PDF format for free.