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DreamShow is free
DreamShow is free: all its features are open, with no limit and no time limit. There is no licence to install and nothing to buy.
What is included
The whole software: venues, fixture library, scenes and timelines, effects, palettes, trajectories, 2D and 3D simulation, sound, creating a show with an AI, the cue window (show mode), remotes, MIDI, OSC, timecode, sound-to-light.
And control of the real equipment:
- DMX output on all the venue's universes (Art-Net, sACN, USB DMX PRO, uDMX): see DMX connections;
- IP video players: see Video screens;
- export for a standalone player: see The standalone player;
- follow spot tablets: see Follow spot on a tablet;
- backstage displays and the teleprompter: see Backstage displays;
- humanoid robots, LED masks and connected sockets: see Humanoid robots, LED masks and Connected sockets;
- the AI assistant, which uses your own Claude API key, entered in its window: see AI assistant (set the scene);
- the MCP connector: see Connect an AI (MCP).
A licence installed by an earlier version
If an earlier version of DreamShow had you install a licence (file licence.txt in the DreamShow folder of your Windows account's local data, %LOCALAPPDATA%\DreamShow), it is no longer needed: you have nothing to do.