Show Buddy

Show Buddy organises your gigs, plays your backing tracks, runs your DMXIS light show, and controls your MIDI equipment – leaving you free to concentrate on a great performance!

Important note about Show Buddy Active! A free 1.6 update to Show Buddy is available upon request which adds support for Show Buddy Active, allowing you to control video.

“What can I say, I’m loving Show Buddy so much. It has pretty much negated the need to use Ableton Live for my show control.” – Neil James, UK

“It’s freaking awesome… The more gigs I do the more private bookings and nice comments I get .. Show Buddy and DMXIS is a game changer” – Steve Forward, UK

Here, Show Buddy is playing Steve’s backing tracks and running the fully synchronised light show. Everything is hands-free and fully automated, leaving Steve free to concentrate on his (awesome) performance.

The next video shows the absolute basics – how to get up & running with Show Buddy & DMXIS from scratch.

Here is an overview of all the Show Buddy features.

See more videos with more features at the end of this page!

Features

Designed from the ground up for DMXIS users.
Easy to use drag & drop interface.
Visual overview of lighting cues, fade in/out times and MIDI events.
Track library for managing songs, Show library for managing playlists.

Show Buddy gives you fully automated hands-free sound & light, but in an extremely user friendly interface, customised to the needs of the gigging professional. It’s ideal for those wanting the simplest possible way to create a fully automated sound & light show.

Tutorial videos

Release 1.1.0 adds control of external MIDI devices, and exporting to MIDI files, see this tutorial:

Release 1.2.0 main features:

System Requirements

Show Buddy (with DMXIS) requires a Mac running macOS 10.7 (or better) or a PC running Windows 7 or better.
Show Buddy (with Show Buddy Active) requires a Mac running macOS 10.11 (or better) or a PC running Windows 10.