Blackout Next
Professional DMX/Art-Net/sACN
Free · In‑App Purchases
iPad
Blackout is a revolutionary professional Art-Net/sACN DMX Lighting Console app for the iPad.
Redefine your lighting with our incredibly intuitive interface and powerful effects engine.
Features:
- Cloud Fixture Database: Access over 44,000 fixture profiles licensed from Carallon, the leader in fixture profile services.
- Create Custom Fixtures: Utilize our Fixture Creation Wizard to design your own profiles, perfectly matching your specific lighting needs.
- Fixture Patching Made Simple: Effortlessly categorize and label LED fixtures with a streamlined Patch interface, ideal for batch management.
- Intuitive Fixture Controls: Adjust parameters with ease in Fixture Controls and experience our NEW multi-dimensional color picker.
- Robust Multi-Cuelist Platform: Organize and save lighting looks within Sequences, complete with customizable fade times, delays, and links.
- Presets for Quick Access: Save and recall fixture parameters instantly, streamlining batch changes across multiple fixtures through our Favorites.
- Dynamic Effects Engine: Explore limitless creative possibilities with our advanced Effects Engine, featuring intensity chases, color loops, and more.
- Macro Functionality: Simplify complex lighting tasks into single-button actions for maximum efficiency.
- Enhanced Data Visibility: Experience our reworked UI with new view states for displaying data in various formats, aiding quicker analysis and decision-making.
- Advanced MIDI Support (Input & Output): Gain tactile control over your lighting with MIDI compatibility, suitable for both wired and wireless controllers.
What’s New in 2.5.0
New Features
• Record live DMX input or output directly into Looks and Favorites
• Access PATCH and offline documentation from the About menu
• Improved fixture filtering with a new toggle option
• New Manual Values button for direct control
• Live Summary now shows both current selection and virtual dimmers
• Pan, Tilt, and Zoom values now display degree indicators
• Expanded OSC command support
• Save default settings in Record, Update, and Fader configuration popups
Fixes & Improvements
• LivePlot now safely saves changes when the app is suspended or closed
• Channel functions now snap correctly at the end of Look transitions
• Channel center buttons correctly reset values to zero
• Improved text visibility on dark backgrounds
• Deleting a Look now returns to the previous Look
• Fixed app launch stalls
• LivePlot now uses unique IDs to prevent broken plots when renaming items
• Improved LivePlot color accuracy
• Go Fader wraparound behavior fixed
• Fixed crashes related to non-English characters
• Resolved encoder jumps when using OSC or MIDI
• Astera NYX bulbs now correctly support battery adjustments
• Locked LivePlot objects can still be selected
• Turning off a Sequence Fader now correctly stops effects
• Fixed Favorites Expanded filtering
• Updated Macro creation screen UI
• Added Create New Macro button to Macros Expanded
• Additional stability, performance, and reliability improvements
The developer, Blackout Lighting Console LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Blackout Lighting Console LLC
- Size
- 407 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
- iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Basic Plan $799.99
- Copyright
- © 2025 Blackout Lighting Console LLC