Projects keep different lighting rigs separate. Within one project, you can save several venues with different arrangements of your lights. This guide creates a project and its first stage setup.

Guide version: development version dated 2 October 2026. If the buttons described here are missing, check your application version. Older installation packages may not include project management.

1. Four concepts to understand

• Project: a collection of fixture profiles and saved venues. Your band's own lights might form one project, and a venue's installed lights another.
• Fixture profile: the definition of a fixture model's DMX channels. It is not yet a physical light added to a stage.
• Physical light: one fixture instance in a stage, with its own name, location and DMX address. Four identical lights can share one profile.
• Stage setup: a saved venue configuration containing its active lights, placement, calibration, network settings and manual-effect settings.

Example: a Band's own lights project could contain Rehearsal room, Club and Outdoor stage setups. Profiles are shared within the project; physical placement and venue-specific settings are saved per stage.

2. New project or new stage?

Create a new project when starting with an entirely different rig and no previous profiles, such as a venue's installed lights when you are not bringing your own.

Create a new stage from the current setup when taking the same equipment to a new venue and changing placement, addresses or other venue settings. You do not need to recreate the profiles.

A new project does not delete previous projects. A new stage does not delete its source setup. You can select either again later.

3. Open project management

1. Stop the show and open Stage Setup from the main window.
2. The top Project row selects the project.
3. The Stage setup row below selects one of that project's saved venues.

Both selections apply to all Stage Setup tabs, including Fixture Editor and calibration. Switching projects displays only the selected project's profiles and stages.

Existing users: after the project model is first enabled, previous data initially appears in a project named Nykyinen kalusto (Existing rig). You can give it a more descriptive name with Rename project….

4. Create a completely empty project

1. Click New project… on the Project row.
2. Enter a descriptive name, such as Venue lights.
3. Confirm the name. The new project becomes selected.
4. Check the Project row to confirm you are editing the intended project.

Expected result: the project has no profiles, physical lights or WLED devices. Previous venues, calibrations, network destinations and manual effects are not imported. General application defaults may still appear in fields.

An empty Fixture profile list is therefore correct at this point. Next, create the required profiles and add physical lights.

5. Save the first venue

1. Open Stage Fixtures.
2. Enter a name in Stage setup name, such as Rehearsal room.
3. Click Save stage setup. You can make this first save before adding lights.
4. Check that the name appears in the upper Stage setup selection list.

The project and stage have separate names. The project describes the equipment collection; the stage describes one saved configuration or venue.

Saving an empty stage does not make it ready for LIVE. Create profiles in Fixture Editor and add physical lights in Stage Fixtures. Saving a profile never automatically adds a light to a stage.

6. Open a previous project or venue

1. Select the project from Project.
2. Select its venue from Stage setup.
3. Check the lights and settings before editing.

When switching with unsaved stage or profile changes, you are offered saving, discarding changes or cancelling the switch. Save if you want to keep your edits.

Normal and developer views use the same project data. There is no need to make changes twice. Edit data in one application window at a time.

7. Create a new venue from the current setup

1. Open the project and source stage. Save the source first if you want its latest edits preserved there.
2. Click New stage setup from current….
3. Give the new venue its own name, such as Club.
4. Adjust placement, addresses, calibration and network settings for the new venue.
5. Save using Save stage setup.

The copy includes borrowed lights and current network and WLED settings. Check the new venue's connections before enabling output. Remove unwanted physical lights from the copy in Stage Fixtures.

Copying uses the configuration currently in the editor. Editing the copy's placement does not alter the original venue's saved configuration.

Profiles remain shared within the project. Changing a profile's channel definition in Fixture Editor can affect every stage using it. Copying a stage does not create independent profile copies.

8. Renaming and removal

Project or stage name

Use Rename project… or Rename stage setup… to rename the existing item. New stage setup from current… creates a copy instead. Rename a saved stage with its dedicated button rather than typing into Stage setup name.

Individual physical light

Correct its Name in Stage Fixtures and save the stage. This change applies to the current stage.

To remove a light, select its row and click Remove light from this stage, then save. The shared profile, other matching lights and other venues remain intact.

Fixture profile

Select the saved profile in Fixture Editor, click Load selected, edit Profile name and click Save fixture profile.

Delete an entire profile only with Delete fixture profile in Fixture Editor. Deletion is blocked while the current edited stage or any saved stage in the project uses it. Removing a borrowed light from the current stage does not automatically delete its profile.

9. Check before continuing

• The Project row shows the correct project.
• The first stage is named and saved.
• You understand the difference between a profile and a physical light.
• You know when to create a project and when to copy a stage.

Next: Fixtures. Create profiles for the fixture models and add physical lights to the stage. Then calibrate and finish the venue setup.

Current limitations: exporting a portable project package and importing a profile from another project are not available yet. Different projects do not display a shared profile list.

Verification: this guide is based on current development-version source code and previous automated project-management tests. Writing it did not change application behaviour or your project data.