beta release 0.8.2.7
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WhiteCat 0.8.2.7
(24 december 2011, Xmas version) GridPlayers, FX modes for faders, Faders groups, Channel macros, iPAD support for FS-iCAT  Downloading previous versions Developpement versions (alphas): Répertoire pre-releases DONATE:
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Video tutorials:
White Cat tuto 5 midi affectation
White Cat
tuto 6 audio players
White Cat tuto 8
tracking video
White Cat tuto 9 remoting a video patch in vvvv
White Cat Tuto 10: wizard menu
White Cat Tuto 12: iCat -
Fantastick remote for iPod/phone
in French, please
Welcome !
White Cat is a new project of software for lighting in danse, theatre and concerts fields.
It is actually traditionnal lights oriented ( dimmers).
The Whitecat 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 enviromental 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
-a powerfull automations handler working inside the CueList, enabling encapsulating events such has audio, channel-time effects,call of many internal functions, chasers, etc....
-a secondary CueList
-a 4x audio player to the stereo output
-an electronic patch (512 gradas) with 16 customizable curves
-4 channel macros per channel
-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
- 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)
-ASCII Usitt export import , import of schwartzpeter shows
-PDF export of your show
-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
-a remote for iPod/Phone based on the free app Fantastick
-evoluated midi mute for non motorized midi surfaces
Dmx interfaces supported:
Art-Net protocol / Enttec Pro / Enttec Open / Velleman K8062 / Sunlite 8C / usbdmx512online.net
Beta Test ?
Downloadable exe are currently Beta.
They are fully activated in DMX sending, but you need to register to be able to save: registering.
This license is given free for all beta versions
WhiteCat, once developpement finished , will be selked at an ethic price: something like 40 euros per license.
WhiteCat is quickly evoluting, and is growing during shows creations and performances with audience.
It will surely answer the needs of any light people working in theatre and dance field.
WhiteCat is far more powerfull, rich and stable than Schwartzpeter. It answers a lot of software designing deadlocks that the black cat couldn't exceed. WhiteCat takes a lot of benefit of Schwartzpeter previous adventure.
For those who could be effrayed by beta-test term, you need to understand that WhiteCat needs your feedback and your time, to gain in power and easyness. It needs to be used by a lot of different people, with really different approachs, to grown up. Schwartzpeter and its concurrents are also beta-test.
Being beta-tester is simply help to make a software for everybody, a software that scape to its conceptor way of thinking.
Thanks to all WhiteCat beta-testers. It owes them already a lot.
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