ELM (ENTTEC LED MAPPER) 2026

ELM (ENTTEC LED Mapper) is pixel mapping software that turns any LED install into one show you control. Map thousands of pixels in 2D or 3D and drive them live with video, generative effects and any lighting console.

SKU: 70581

Pixel map a strip. a façade. a bridge. a city.

ELM (ENTTEC LED Mapper) is pixel mapping software that turns any LED install into one show you control. Map thousands of pixels in 2D or 3D and drive them live with video, generative effects and any lighting console. ELM 2026 drives up to 32,768 universes per protocol over Art-Net, sACN and KiNET, free to start, with perpetual licenses.

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01How ELM works

Map any rig.
Run any show.

ELM turns thousands of LEDs, any strip, dot or fixture, into one surface you can map in 2D or 3D and drive with live video, generative effects and audio-reactive shows, from a nightclub wall to a city-scale media façade.

01 Map

Map your rig

Tell ELM where every LED physically sits: lay out strips, dots and fixtures with fast vector tools, in 2D or true 3D. No CAD experience needed.

Vector tools2D & 3DShape library

02 Design

Design what plays

Play video, generated effects (“shaders”) or a live camera feed across that mapped shape. Composite and tune the layers live until it looks exactly right.

130+ shadersLive layersVideo / camera

03 Send

Send it to the lights

Stream the right colour to every pixel over Art-Net, sACN and KiNet, spread across multiple NICs, so even city-scale rigs stay perfectly in sync.

Art-NetsACNKiNet

New to mapping? ELM is built to be learned quickly, with online tutorials and a demo project to start from. You don’t need to be a 3D CAD engineer.

Shows that move with the music.

ELM’s audio-reactive Eye Candy effects lock your rig to a live audio feed, so clubs, gigs and events stay in time with the room, reacting beat to beat.

Audio-reactive Eye CandyLive audio inputBeat-driven effects

Run the show from your iPad.

ELM runs on Windows, but you can drive it live from iOS and iPadOS, where a built-in remote API lets apps like TouchOSC recall states or run a full control surface.

ELM controlled remotely from iPads over the built-in remote API

ELM Pro & ArchitecturalTouchOSC guide TouchOSC example

02What’s new in 2026

The biggest leap ELM has ever made.

01 · WORKFLOW Layer effects live. Composite effects live in the perform view. Stack layers with plain-language blend modes and per-layer opacity, mask, solo and reorder on the fly, then save a whole stack as new, reusable media in one click. No more wiring up and merging separate stages.Add / Multiply / ScreenMask · solo · reorderSave stack as media

02 · OUTPUT & SCALE Drive far bigger shows. The arbitrary universe wall is gone. Scale toward architainment-class pixel counts, up to 32,768 universes per protocol, and send output across several network cards (with node auto-numbering) so a single port never chokes your pixel count.8,192 → 32,768 universesMulti-NIC outputArt-Net · sACN · KiNet

03 · CAPABILITY Size your rig against reality. A built-in benchmark tests your actual network, CPU and graphics card and tells you how many universes your rig can truly sustain, at your chosen target frame rate. Size a show against what the hardware can do, not a guess.Network + CPU + GPU testSelectable target FPSReal capacity headroom

04 · EFFECTS & SHADERS A bigger, smarter effects engine. A much larger library, always present. 130+ GPU shader effects ported from EMU are baked into the app, with no loose files to lose. Tune them live with typed ISF parameters, colour pickers, an XY pad, sliders and triggers, that now save with your project.130+ GPU shaders (from EMU)Baked in, no loose filesLive-editable (ISF)Building Blocks / Generators

05 · TRUE 3D Map your rig as a real volume. A top-level 3D workspace to build, wire, test and visualise. The built-in presets cover the regular shapes, and real rigs are rarely one of them, so ELM 2026 builds any geometry at all from a plain CSV: one row per LED with its position and its patch. Describe your rig to ChatGPT, Claude or any AI assistant and have it write the file, and ELM checks every row before it builds anything.Starter shapes to download and importCone Arch Ring FestoonHow to write a CSV for your own rig

06 · AUDIO Lock the show to the beat. Point ELM at any sound, a mic, a line-in or your computer’s own output, and it finds the BPM and beat in real time, then drives every tempo-synced effect from that one beat. No MIDI clock, no DJ software, no extra hardware. It listens across six frequency bands and holds a phase-locked beat straight through drops and breakdowns.Real-time BPM detectionMic · line-in · loopbackDrives the master tempo

ELM 2026:layering effects live in the Live view

Sentry

Know the moment
a light goes dark.

On a facade, a bridge or a citywide scheme, fixtures fail quietly in the hardest places to reach. Sentry watches every one over RDM around the clock and alerts your team in-app, by email or SMS the moment something drifts out of range, while it's still a heads-up and not a dark pixel on a landmark.

Sentry is included with the ELM Architectural plan.

Devices · 3 online

CCC428 °C

CVC431 °C

Storm 1047 °C

Sensor · Temperature

Storm 10

454E:05C3FA21 · normal band 29–47 °C

Temperature Normal band Threshold 30 °C

! Temperature 47 °C, above threshold on Storm 10 EMAILSMS

Temperature, voltage & current Scales to tens of thousands Dark-only, content-safe

And see exactly why.

An alert is only useful if you can trust it and act on it. Sentry shows its working.

Catch it before it fails

Per-fixture temperature, voltage and current, charted over time against each fixture's own normal band, so you see a thermal climb building long before it turns into a dark pixel.

Temperature47 °C

Input voltage24.3 V

Pinpoint the fault fast

Group the whole site by gateway, model or custom zone ("North Facade", "Bridge Span"). Each gateway shows its RDM response time and a health dot, so Sentry can flag when it is the problem, not ELM.

Storm 10 · 8 devices12 ms

Ethergate MK2 · 6180 ms

ODE Mk3 · not responding- ms

Alerts you can trust

Debounce and cooldown mean one clear alert per real problem, not a pager storm, plus a recovery notice when it clears. Faults reach an off-site crew by email or SMS, so nobody watches a screen.

Over threshold 12sdebouncing

Fault confirmed1 alert sent

Back in rangeall-clear

Never touches your show

Deep RDM sweeps run only while the rig is dark and stand down the instant content plays, so Sentry guards an unmanned, city-scale site without ever risking a single frame of live output.

Rig darkSweeping

Show playingMonitoring held

03Latest updates

The newest additions to ELM

Everything here is in the version you can download today.

Last update 7 Aug 2026

The cone imported as a 3D stage in ELM, with its pixel appearance settings

The cone running live in ELM with an effect layer playing

The entrance arch imported as a 3D stage in ELM, with its pixel appearance settings

The entrance arch running live in ELM with an effect layer playing

The sculpture ring imported as a 3D stage in ELM, with its pixel appearance settings

The sculpture ring running live in ELM with an effect layer playing

The festoon spans imported as a 3D stage in ELM, with its pixel appearance settings

The festoon spans running live in ELM with an effect layer playing

7 Aug 2026

Any shape you can describe

Import a CSV, one row per LED with its position and its patch, and ELM builds any geometry you like, not just the presets. Save the built-in template, describe your rig to ChatGPT, Claude or any AI assistant, and the file comes back. If ELM flags an error, copy the report, paste it back and import the fix.

How to build and import a 3D shape CSV

Starter templates

Coming up

More on the way

New capabilities land here as they ship. Check back before your next install.

04Licensing

What every edition includes

One app, one download. Start free two ways, then scale with a paid edition and capacity packs as your projects grow.

Demo Edition

Full app, all features, no sign-up. Watermarked.

Download ELM 2026

Free Edition

Full engine, no watermark. Two universes, free.

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Edition	Demotry free, no sign-up	Free€070581-FREE	Professional€36570581-PROF	Architectural€1,82070581-ARCH
2D pixel mapping	✓	✓	✓	✓
Voxel 3D workspace~1M nodes	✓	✓	✓	✓
Media enginelibVLC, IP/RTSP cameras, capture	✓	✓	✓	✓
130+ GPU shaders + BPM syncMIDI-clock	✓	✓	✓	✓
Live effect layersblend / opacity / mask / solo	✓	✓	✓	✓
Uninterrupted outputno periodic blackout nag	–	✓	✓	✓
Who it's forBest-fit audience	Anyone evaluating	Hobbyists & small installs	Designers, live & touring	Integrators & installs
UniversesHow many DMX universes you can drive	Unlimited	2	16base · packs → 32,768	256base · packs → 32,768
Machine activationsa primary + a backup; revoke one to move	–	2	2	2
Remote controlOSC / HTTP / DMX-in (+ CITP)	✓	–	✓	✓
Device ManagerCommission hundreds of gateways in one pass	✓	–	–	✓included in full
Sentry monitoringCatch a failing fixture before your client does	✓	–	–	✓1,000 devices, packs → thousands

White / CCT tunable-white mixing	✓	✓	✓	✓
NDI / Spout input	✓	✓	✓	✓
Output protocols: Art-Net / sACN / KiNet	✓	✓	✓	✓
Scheduling / sequences / player	✓	✓	✓	✓
Multi-NIC output + Benchmark tab	✓	✓	✓	✓
Auto-update + offline activation	✓	✓	✓	✓

Universe packsone-time, stacks onto your license	–	–	✓	✓
+16 universes70581-U16	–	–	€95	€95
+64 universes70581-U64	–	–	€275	€275
+256 universes70581-U256	–	–	€820	€820
+1,024 universes70581-U1024	–	–	€2,285	€2,285
+4,096 universes70581-U4096	–	–	€6,375	€6,375
+8,192 universes70581-U8192	–	–	€8,195	€8,195
Sentry device packsArchitectural only	–	–	–	✓
+1,000 devices70581-SEN1000	–	–	–	€915
+5,000 devices70581-SEN5000	–	–	–	€3,645

ELM Free requires telemetry / marketing opt-in; ELM Professional and ELM Architectural can opt out.

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05Case studies

ELM in the real world

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Suspension bridge South Korea
ELM PRO · S-PLAY SP1 · OCTO ×28 · DIN Ethergate ×2 · DIN RDS4 ×8
Pixel-mapped the full 303 m footbridge in ELM and streamed live to the hardware, keeping colour synchronised across the whole span.
Casselden Australia
ELM · S-PLAY · Pixelator · OCTO
Mapped the transformed foyer installation in ELM, driving the pixel system across the tower’s public space.
City architecture Russia
ELM · 200+ universes · 15,000 RGBW pixels
Mapped and controlled the citywide show in ELM, driving 200+ DMX universes and over 100,000 addresses across the bridge and façades.
Parks & gardens United Kingdom
ELM · Storm 10 · DIN PIXIE
Used ELM to play back the animated after-dark shows, driving individual pixels and DMX fixtures across the gardens.
Pod ceiling Australia
ELM · Pixelator Mini · PLink Injector
Mapped the 32 pixel pods in ELM and ran audio-reactive patterns synced to the showroom’s audio.
H&M: The Signature United States
ELM · OCTO ×40
Powers a custom in-store visualiser built on ELM, letting staff switch between hundreds of lighting scenes live across the three-storey escalator.
Luckey Climbers United States
ELM · OCTO ×66
Every climbing platform runs its own OCTO, all mapped together in ELM for one cohesive light design across the structure.
Snow Glow United States
ELM · S-PLAY SP1 · Pixelator Mini Mk2 ×2 · PLink ×14
Pixel-mapped the 55 m LED strip sculpture in ELM for synchronised effects across the artwork.
Sculptural buckets United States
ELM · S-PLAY SP1 · Pixelator Mini · PLink
Mapped Jason Peters’ recycled-bucket light sculptures in ELM for quick, seamless pixel mapping of the interactive art.
Chimelong Water Park China
ELM · Storm 10 ×41 · S-PLAY SP1 · DIN RDS4 ×2
An ELM server orchestrates 330+ DMX universes, synchronising lighting across the entire water park.