EMU Release Notes
RELEASES
EMU 26.1.0
EMU, Evolved
See what’s new with EMU and
how creating light shows just got better.
ATTRIBUTE MANAGER
A better way to edit and customize every fixture.
GDTF IMPORT
Import GDTF files directly into EMU and build your own GDTF library.
Step-by-set process:
Sign up to
gdtf-share.com
if you haven’t already.
Click on
Find Fixture
and find your fixture.
Underneath the Revision table, click on the
Download
icon, and go to EMU
Select
Path
and in
Channel View
GDTF Library
click on
Import GDTF
Happy importing!
Audio Input
Define unlimited custom trigger zones with the new equalizer UI, and let EMU keep time for you with automatic BPM detection.
Audio input in EMU
Lights using the Capture software
Quality Of Life (QOL)
Small improvements that add up.
Notifications
In-app updates
Automatic device discovery

Preview Releases
Incremental updates shipped between major releases.
Version 26.424.2-preview
Fixed
- Oscillators applied to mapping-page scene parameters now pulse symmetrically around the parameter's value.
- "Show list of devices at startup" toggle now takes effect.
- License activation now shows a specific error message when a voucher fails.
- An invalid voucher no longer replaces your active one.
- No more repeating "Update check failed" notifications when your channel has no builds.
- Update channel now defaults to match the installer you downloaded.
Version 26.420.5-preview
Reliability and polish across the Updates tab, saving, feedback, and first-launch dialogs.
Improved
- Renamed the "Beta" update channel to "Preview" throughout the app. Your current channel choice is kept automatically — nothing to do.
- Cleaner Updates tab — release notes now focus on New, Improved, and Fixed items, with no extra sections cluttering the view.
- Refreshed the legacy-install migration dialog with a cleaner layout and two clear choices: "Remind Me Later" and "Remove Old Version".
Fixed
- Ctrl+C in any text field no longer crashes EMU. Clipboard copy/paste works correctly throughout the app.
- Oscillators could lose their assigned faders after saving and reopening a show. Your mappings are now preserved across save and reload.
- Updates tab now shows only the release notes for your selected update channel. Previously entries from every channel were listed together.
- Feedback dialog's description field now starts at the top of the box as expected, rather than floating in the middle.
Version 26.419.1-preview
Major Attribute Manager and Patch Page Overhaul
New
- Updated UI
- Perpetual Licensing
- Yearly subscription now grants perpetual license and one year of updates
- Monthly subscription now grants perpetual license after 12 consecutive months of subscription
- Attribute Manager Enhancements
- Color Picker now supports Cyan, Magenta, UV, Lime and Amber
- Added missing fixture attributes from attribute manager
- Gobo wheel with gobo images
- Prism and Animation wheels with images when they are available
- Patch Page UI
- New and improved UI for patch page, with better UI have devices bindings over multiple universes
- Drag device directly onto universe patch to patch all available universes
- Create your own layout with dockable groups
- GDTF Library
- Import GDTF files directly into EMU and build a GDTF library
- Audio Interface
- Define unlimited amount of custom trigger zones
- Equalizer UI to easily define trigger zones
- Automatic BPM detection
- Installer and Release Notes UI
- Popup notification on major updates
- Structured release notes in Settings with expandable versions
- In-app updates for seamless updating
Improved
- When adding a new fixture, defaults are loaded properly
- Scene parameters on mapping page can directly have Oscillators and Audio effects applied to them
- Fixtures without dimmer channels now have virtual intensity
- Mapping scene selection now saves view choice between tile and list
- USB device discovery performance improvements, now usb devices don't need rescan to be discovered
- Fixture selection correctly propagates through the app
- Performance improvements to fixture lookup and searching
- Duplicating a fixture, places it in the next available address from the selected fixture
- MIDI learn attribute manager without having to have fixtures selected
- ENTTEC USB devices will automatically notify when there is a firmware update available
Fixed
- Restoring attribute manager UI would restore the wrong channels
- Inverted channels would revert when selecting non inverted channel
- Snapping to points on the Mapping page which would collapse all selected points to the snap target
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