Features

Jinx! is a standalone controlling software for led matrices, it has a powerful set of features to get the most out of your matrix.

  • simple, intuitive and fully resizable user interface
  • 4 effect channels with 2 independent generators each
  • 22 effect generators with lots of variations and sub effects including audio based effects like strobe and spectrum analyzer as well as image viewer with animated gif support, avi player and webcam support
  • Create your own effects with Jinx!Script – a small but powerful basic like programming language to write effects on your own
  • every generator can use its own assignable region which can be freely placed inside the matrix
  • switchable auto gain control for audio capturing
  • generators can be merged with a lot of different modes
  • both effect channels can be merged and crossfaded
  • simple master control for main brightness and gamma
  • additional master strobe effect
  • scene store to quickly save and access a composed effect
  • inside the scenes all 8 generators can be saved, as well as half scenes with only 4 generators which can be assigned to the left or right side of Jinx! to crossfade the scenes directly
  • powerful chase engine to build your own chases with stored scenes
  • touchscreen friendly show mode for playing scenes and chases with auto scene fade mode
  • all preview panels configurable, channel preview panels switchable to single generators
  • copy and paste single generators to another channel or scene
  • record effects to a file which can be played in a single effect generator and combined with other effects to get an endless number of effect combinations
  • various and flexible output options, supporting Art-Net, sACN (E1.31), tpm2.net, tpm2, Glediator protocol and MiniDMX as well as real DMX ( Enttec OpenDMX USB and Enttec USB DMX Pro compatible interfaces)
  • switchable borderless DVI output window, which will stay on top and wipes out the mouse cursor
  • all output protocols can be redirected to a file to create animation files for standalone controllers
  • additional Bitmap Export to save the created animation as series of Windows Bitmap files
  • create Glediator 2 / Solderlab UIB compatible recorder files
  • multiple output devices can be handled to drive a serial matrix with more than one port
  • flexible pixel to output device patching
  • remote control support via DMX (Enttec USB DMX Pro compatible interfaces), Art-Net, sACN (E1.31), MIDI, tpm2.net and tpm2 to control scene and chase changes, the main crossfader including the crossfade mode, master brightness and master strobe remotely over a hardware or software based light desk
  • complete ArtPoll support for Art-Net input and output
  • complete user manual integrated as context sensitive help
  • auto load show files and auto start scenes/chases and invoke the show mode via command line
  • choose customized controls which can be freely colored or classic windows control as gui
  • small, fast and native windows application, doesn’t need any additional runtimes