Professional backing tracks, synchronized video, and DMX lighting — controlled from your Mac. Three apps, one seamless performance.
Every live performance deserves more than "good enough." The Gwava suite gives bands, solo artists, and sound engineers a professional-grade toolkit for running backing tracks, synchronizing video to an external display, and controlling DMX lighting — all from a single Mac. Whether you're a three-piece playing pub gigs with click tracks or a touring act with a full lighting rig, Gwava scales to your ambition without the learning curve of enterprise lighting desks.
GwavaGIG is your performance cockpit: organize songs into setlists, trigger audio with waveform monitoring, send video to a second screen, and fire MIDI-driven lighting cues — all with panic-stop safety and auto-follow so you never lose momentum mid-set. GwavaLIGHT is where you design the show: build fixture profiles, map DMX addresses, paint scenes with per-channel colour control, and chain them into tempo-synced chases. Every project shares data instantly between apps.
GwavaCUES puts a 16-pad touchboard in the hands of anyone running lights. Map each pad to a scene or chase, swipe through five banks of cues, and trigger DMX output to an ENTTEC adapter with a single tap — no MIDI controller hardware required. Together, the three apps replace a rack of gear with something that fits in a laptop bag. Your audience won't know it's just one Mac. They'll just know the show was incredible.
Whether you need backing tracks, a full AV show, or hands-on lighting control — there's a Gwava setup built for you.
You need rock-solid audio playback with optional video on a second screen. Organize songs into setlists, add auto-follow for seamless transitions, and use panic stop when things go sideways. No lighting knowledge needed.
Design lighting scenes and chases in GwavaLIGHT, embed MIDI cues in your tracks, and let GwavaGIG fire everything in sync — audio, video on an external display, and DMX to your ENTTEC adapter. One Mac runs the whole show.
Tired of leaving your lights on "sound-activated"? Design proper scenes in GwavaLIGHT, then trigger them live with GwavaCUES — a 16-pad touchboard with 5 banks. Tap pads to fire scenes or BPM-synced chases via DMX. No MIDI controller needed.
Each app does one thing exceptionally well. Together, they replace a rack of gear.
Manage your song library across multiple bands, build setlists with drag-and-drop, and perform with synchronized audio, video, and DMX lighting. Waveform display, auto-follow, quicklists, and a configurable panic stop keep you in control.
Build fixture profiles from templates, assign DMX addresses with overlap validation, paint scenes per-channel with quick colours, and chain scenes into BPM-synced chases. Every change is instantly shared with GwavaGIG and GwavaCUES via a shared data container.
A 16-pad touchboard on your screen — mapped to the scenes and chases you designed in GwavaLIGHT. Swipe through five banks (80 cues total), set BPM for chase speed, and tap to fire DMX output. Dark and light themes with customizable pad colours. Pad 1 is always Blackout.
All three apps are available on the Mac App Store. Start with the one that fits your setup — they share data automatically.