Nicolaudie Group
 Logo from 2022 to now | |
Native name | LightingSoft AG |
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Formerly | Digital Art System |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Consumer electronics, software and online services |
| Founded 📆 | July 14, 1989 in Paris, France |
| Founders 👔 | Bruno Nicolaudie |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
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| Members | |
Number of employees | 50 (2022) |
| 🌐 Website | nicolaudiegroup.com |
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Nicolaudie group, or LightingSoft AG, is a Swiss based company that specializes in computerized lighting control.
In 1987, Bruno Nicolaudie, a graduate of the ESIEA school, designed the world's first computerized lighting controller for Amiga computers. For more than 30 years Nicolaudie Group has developed pioneering Software and Hardware dedicated to lighting controllers.
Today, they are a global company, making cutting-edge products for the architectural and entertainment lighting control industry. Their products use several standards to control the light like DMX512, Art-Net, Architecture for Control Networks, Digital Addressable Lighting Interface...
The Nicolaudie Group is now present in 7 countries around the world. They have offices in Lausanne, Montpellier, Belfort, Brighton, Orlando, Florida, Sofia, Dubai and Guangzhou.
Brands
Nicolaudie Architectural
Created in 2019, Nicolaudie Architectural, or NA, is dedicated to the architectural sector. It mainly develops autonomous controllers illuminating interior or exterior buildings.
Nicolaudie Architectural has a wide range of products from a simple one-universe DMX controller (DINAµ) to a multi-protocol controller that can control more than ten DMX universes (DINA-DR1).
They have developed several well-known stand-alone software, like ESA (Easy Stand Alone) in 2000, ESA2 in 2009, ESA Pro in 2015 and ESA Pro 2 in 2019.
In 2021, the Arcolis software became a mobile application suite dedicated to Nicolaudie Architectural.
Daslight
Created in 1989, Daslight, is the first brand dedicated to entertainment and live usage.
The first version of the Daslight software was intended for the first Commodore Amiga multitasking platform. The first sales arrived a few months later with the packages for Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000. The package consisted of a plug-in interface in the computer and a 3.5 inch floppy disk.
Daslight was one of the very first lighting control software. The first range consisted of 32, 64 and 128 channel controllers in 0-10v format.
As the decade changed, Daslight continued to work on new systems that were available and were to come. This was especially true of the Microsoft Windows operating system and the DMX protocol. 1994 saw the release of Daslight NT software, available for Windows NT and 95 and capable of controlling up to 512 DMX channels.
Daslight software continued to grow throughout the 90's, improving its functionality and graphical interface and gaining international popularity. In 2000, they launched their USB-DMX interface, a world first! This interface already had a stand-alone memory that allowed DMX devices to be managed without a computer.
In 2011, they integrated the USB interface into a stand-alone wall-mounted touch panel and thus offered a product adapted to architectural lighting control.
2016 saw the birth of Daslight 4 software, the most significant evolution since the launch of the brand's first software. For the first time, Daslight is available for Mac and PC.
Sunlite
Created in 1998, Sunlite is the second dedicated brand to entertainment and live usage. They provide a powerful software to control multiple DMX universes in live with MIDI and audio synchronisation.
Only available on Windows, this software offers a large range of features for live lighting control.
DmxSoft
Created in 2014, DmxSoft is the first brand of the group selling low-cost DMX controllers compliant with all the Nicolaudie's softwares.
Light Rider
Created in 2018, Light rider is a mobile-based lighting controller software. Compatible on Android and IOS, it offers a plug-and-play solution to control light during gigs.
Light rider embeds a powerful engine effect to let the user focus on their performance instead of programming their lights.
Wolfmix
Created in 2021, Wolfmix is the first brand of the group offering a stand-alone controller for the entertainment sector.
The Wolfmix W1 is a plug-and-play product with a touch screen and launchpad style. It embeds a powerful engine effect, which allows to create almost all the possible animations with your lights.
Arcolis
Created in 2016, Arcolis is dedicated to mobile applications for the Architectural domain.
In 2021 Arcolis was renamed Arcolis Suite, and is integrated to Nicolaudie Architectural.
Arcolis Suite provides a suite of tools designed to complement the SLESA, STICK and DINA line of controllers - adding remote and effortless lighting control, programming and triggering.
- Arcolis Designer
- Arcolis Remote
- Arcolis Remote Pro
Lumidesk
Created in 2007, Lumidesk provides DMX controllers and software for the United States market.
Lumidesk software can be used in live mode as well as in stand-alone mode.
Historic
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 1987 | Bruno Nicolaudie creates the first prototype of lighting controllers as a student.
MCDlight on Amiga 1000. |
| 1989 | Creation of Digital Art System company and "D.A.S.LIGHT" brand on July 14, 1989 in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise.
Launch of Daslight Disco, operating on Amiga 2000, system with 16 to 128 channels and operating from 0-10V with the serial port. |
| 1990 | Launch of Daslight Scene, operating on Amiga 500. |
| 1992 | Launch of Daslight Archi, operating on Amiga 3000. |
| 1993 | Launch of Daslight Gold, operating on Amiga 3000. |
| 1994 | Launch of Daslight NT on Windows NT & Windows 95. |
| 1996 | Launch of Daslight NT2. |
| 1998 | Creation of the Sunlite brand.
Launch of the Sunlite NT4 on Windows 98. |
| 2000 | Creation of the world's first stand-alone USB controller.
Launch of the SL512EC controller Launch of Sunlite 2000 software. Launch of SLESA-U5 controller Launch of ESA (Easy Stand Alone) software. |
| 2002 | Digital Art System offices move to Montpellier.
Launch of Sunlite 2000 on Windows XP. Launch of Daslight DVC1. |
| 2004 | Launch of Sunlite 2004 software. |
| 2005 | Launch of SLESA-IP1 controller (Hardware Award). |
| 2006 | Launch of Sunlite Suite. |
| 2007 | Opening an office in Guangzhou.
Creation of Lumidesk brand. |
| 2008 | Creation of the STICK range.
Launch of STICK-KU1 controllers. |
| 2009 | Launch of ESA2 software on PC and Mac. |
| 2010 | Creation of LightingSoft AG in Switzerland. (Becomes the headquarter)
Opening an office in Switzerland. Launch of Sunlite Suite 2. |
| 2011 | Launch of STICK-GU2 and STICK-GA2.
Launch of Daslight DVC3. |
| 2012 | Launch of STICK-DE3 and STICK-KE1.
Launch of ESA 2 Beta software. |
| 2014 | Opening an office in Orlando, Florida.
Creation of DmxSoft brand. Launch of the SUSHI range and SUT technology. |
| 2015 | Launch of Daslight DVC4.
Launch of ESA Pro software. Opening an office in Brighton. Opening an office in Dubai. Opening an office in Belfort. |
| 2016 | Creation of Arcolis brand. |
| 2017 | Launch of Sunlite Suite 3. |
| 2018 | Creation of Light Rider brand. |
| 2019 | Creation of Nicolaudie Architectural brand.
Launch of ESA Pro 2 software. |
| 2020 | Launch of DINA range.
Launch of SIUDI-11 range. |
| 2021 | Opening an office in Sofia.
Creation of Wolfmix brand. |
| 2022 | Launch of Daslight 5.
Launch of Nicolaudie Cloud. |
| 2023 |
References
Bruno Nicolaudie
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