Features

Everything your show has to hit at once.

Audio, video, light and MIDI, played from one timeline and controlled from whatever device you already have in your hand.

Audio output

Every track where it belongs.

Add backing tracks, ambient effects or a click track to your composition — WAV, MP3, OGG and more. Send it out over an external USB sound card, with different files playing in sync on different channels, so the click reaches the in-ears and never the room.

Audio settings in the Rocket Show interface
Light control (DMX)

Lighting you can see before you rig it.

Build scenes in the lighting designer and watch them on a 3D stage: colours, moving heads fanned across the stage, pixel effects on LED bars and matrices, laid out on tracks over the waveform of the song. Online, the AI designs the looks for your fixtures from a single sentence. Or add MIDI files and have them converted straight into DMX, and play the lighting live from a keyboard.

Try the designer in your browser Free, and nothing to install.
Live scenes

Play the light like on a lighting desk.

Switch the Start screen to Scenes and every scene of the designer becomes a button. Tap one to light it, stack several, flash a hit while you hold it, and step through a song with GO. Tap the tempo or follow a MIDI clock, and the effects stay on the beat. MIDI learn puts the scenes on the pads of any controller.

The scenes of the designer as buttons on the Start screen, two of them on, with the tempo tapped
Control by mobile or tablet

No tiny display. No cryptic knobs.

Use the phone, tablet or laptop you already own. Any modern browser will do: the interface is a proper app, easy to run under stage light and powerful enough to set the whole thing up.

Rocket Show running in a phone browser
Organise your compositions

Sets, ready before doors open.

Group compositions into sets — one per event, one per slot, one per room. Load the set, and you are ready to start. Save them and reuse them for the next night.

The composition editor
Powerful MIDI routing

Patch anything to anything.

Route the MIDI input to the DMX light output, send MIDI from one Rocket Show device to another and let it flow on to its MIDI output, or play MIDI files in sync and patch them onward. The combinations are what let one system automate a very specific show.

MIDI routing settings
External control (GPIO)

A contact in. Anything you like out.

Put whatever should happen on a GPIO pin: start a composition, send an HTTP request to another system, send MIDI, or drive another pin high or low. A push button, a beam break or a relay from a PLC all speak this language — so the show takes its cue from the room instead of from someone standing at a laptop.

External control settings: a GPIO pin mapped to an action
And the rest

The details that save the evening.

Video output

Load MP4 files, assign them to compositions and play them out over HDMI — to a projector or any screen.

MIDI output

Switch your digital amp to the solo channel without touching a pedal. Add MIDI files and let them drive your MIDI-enabled gear.

Control by MIDI input

Already own a drum pad? Change composition, play and stop from MIDI. Channels and notes are fully configurable.

Always up to date

Connected to the internet, the device finds its own updates. We keep improving the software and adding to it.

Combine devices

Add as many units to the same network as you like — Wi-Fi, LAN or MIDI — and sync playback or chain the MIDI flow.

Fewer cables on stage

One system carrying sound, light, video and MIDI means less to rig, less to fault-find, and less stage time spent on setup.

On a schedule

Start a composition at a fixed time, or every few minutes from opening to closing. The room runs its own day and nobody has to be there to press play.

Hold points and GO

Let a composition stop at a hold point and wait for the speech, the applause or the actor, until someone presses GO: on the screen, on a foot switch or over MIDI.

On the beat

Effects and chases can run in beats. Tap the tempo, take it from a MIDI clock or let the song give it, and the light follows the music.

Ready when you are.

Install it free on a Raspberry Pi, or take the box that arrives ready to run.