Quick Start
Short guides that take a new project from a blank canvas to lights moving on stage. Read them in order or one at a time.
These short guides take you from a blank project to lights moving on stage. If you are new to Spectralite, start with your first effect and work through the guides in order. If you already know what you need, each guide also works on its own.
How to read these docs explains the notation for menu paths, UI labels, and keyboard shortcuts.
See Your First Effect
Patch a fixture and watch colors animate in under 2 minutes
Explore the Interface
Tour the workspaces and panels
Connect Your Lights
Set up Art-Net and DMX output
Set Up MIDI Control
Map your controller to Spectralite
Next: understand how it works
After your first effect runs, read Core Concepts for the whole signal flow. It covers the stages in the order each one depends on the last: fixtures and fixture layouts, effects, layers, color, and output.