Download MaestroDMX Software Package 1.6

See installation instructions here

Full PDF Manual here

Note: Please do not power down during the update. After the update is completed, power cycle the unit and open it in a new browser.

Free MaestroDMX Shows

For your pleasure, please enjoy these Shows created by our staff:

• Corporate Show
• Rock Concert Show
• All Night Dance Floor Show
• Default Show (Already on your MaestroDMX unit)

IMPORTANT: The Shows will not be loaded onto your MaestroDMX unit when you update the software (unless you factory reset). You have to download them and then upload them to your MaestroDMX via the app. This can be done on the 'Show' page next to the Show drop-down menu.

Get your shows here!

v1.6 FEATURES

More Fixture Groups

• Create, name, and colour-code up to 10 zones (previously called fixture groups)

Additional Art-Net output

• Added support for up to 4 Art-Net universes (5 Universes total)

Custom effect buttons and faders

• Create up to 8 effect buttons

• Up to 8 global faders, assignable to channels

Expanded Trigger Effect Options

• More Strobe options, fade in/out options for Blackout and Blinder

Show Improvements

• New patterns

  • Added Gradient and Onset core patterns. 

• Smoother transitions

  • Improved interface for switching between Show and Live mode

  • Ability to crossfade between cues

  • Copy cues to another Show

Faster Fixture Setup

• Copy default control values to compatible channels and pan/tilt settings to other movers

• Upload several fixture profiles at once

• Movers: 2D XY positioning interface, Pan Width / Tilt Width labels, motion mirrored across mover grid rows, and a "Same as pixels" mapping choice.

External Control Expansion

• OSC support

  • Includes all zones

  • Effect buttons

  • Faders

  • Wildcard addressing

• MIDI: Note On/Off on effect buttons; controllers that release with velocity 0 are handled.

• AI Assistant Control via MCP integration <beta>

  • Added user-accessible MCP connectivity, with configuration and connection status under System → Commands. Use Claude, ChatGPT, etc. to control MaestroDMX.

Beat Tracking Algorithms

• Improved beat tracking algorithm

Multilingual Interface <beta>

• Added Japanese, French, and German translations, including interface messages and errors.

Network Improvements

• Automatically falls back to AP mode when station mode is not present for 30 seconds, and will continue to try to connect to a saved wireless network in the background.

Interface and performance improvements

• Improved layouts for phones and tablets

• Redesigned tables, tile pickers in place of long dropdowns

• Colour palettes display in cue table

• Delete multiple layout items at once

• Reorder rows using dedicated drag handles

• Add snapshots to FX palettes directly from the snapshot editor

• Clearer networking information

• Optimized pattern rendering and audio processing

SQUASHED BUGS

• Fixed cue playback issues involving intermittent blackouts and duplicated cues not playing.

• Corrected Wash brightness so it can reach full output. Existing Wash cues may appear brighter after updating.

• Fixed unexpected blackouts in Energetic when blackouts are disabled, and corrected its Pulse background control.

• Fixed moving lights stopping with certain 2D grid layouts, and pattern background floors ignoring brightness.

• Fixed OSC messages unexpectedly changing effect-button states, malformed messages crashing or stopping OSC control, and OSC cue select.

• Fixed FX palette triggers failing when an effect button was latched, delete actions activating palettes, and a deleted palette's condition lingering on the stage.

• Fixed playback and latched-button state restoration after restart, including fog timer behaviour and fog duration over MIDI.

• Fixed external audio-device detection and connectivity when switching to a USB audio device.

• Fixed Art-Net: universe addresses above 255 sent to a lower address, an output stuck on "Reconfiguring…" after an edit, fixtures on a deleted universe, fixtures on an inactive stage unpatched when a shared universe changed, and a crash while persisting outputs.

• Fixed Enter after typing a hex value closing the whole Edit Channel dialogue, and a palette draft being saved after backing out of it.

• Fixed the colour-wheel step picker opening past the dialogue footer on short screens, and the numeric arrows in the Fixture Profiles editor moving step boundaries past their limits.

• Fixed Wi-Fi getting stuck between AP and station mode, a stuck access point not being restarted, and a missing DHCP lease after joining a network.

KNOWN BUGS

• After a Software update or  Backup Restore, Maestro sometimes fails to send DMX data; a power cycle resolves this issue.

• Changing a snapshot attribute back to its default value keeps the value highlighted in blue.

• iPhone 17 performance: Live data views, such as Channels, can appear choppy and disconnect sometimes.

• Stop then Play in quick succession can leave the lights dark and the show stuck in transition.

• Art-Net: the Offset Universes switch saves only when you click elsewhere; a universe swap moves fixtures with no confirmation.

• German, French and Japanese: table names and row counts use English word forms.

• Solid Colour energy control: the Energy slider does not advance colour-wheel steps when no beat is detected.

• Patcher scroll position: saving channel edits resets the panel's scroll position to the top.

• Single-pixel stages: Maestro patterns may freeze when the stage contains only one pixel and no audio is present.

• Fog when paused: pausing a show can leave fog output in its current state, including continuously on.

• Stage reimport: reimporting an exported stage after renaming the original can incorrectly report that the stage already exists.

• Two quick edits to the same show or profile can briefly show stale data after the save.

• Long fixture-name links: in the patcher's Channels view, only the beginning of a long fixture name responds to clicks.