DMX Lighting Control Software
Lighting control software is where you truly get to unleash your mind and get creative. From a simple, small-scale concert for your friend’s band, to a city skyscraper or complex public event, ENTTEC’s software lets you sync lights to music or program them to do virtually anything you can imagine.
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What is lighting control software?
Lighting control software is a digital tool that helps manage and control lighting systems for various applications, including live events, theatre productions, architectural installations, and more. Moreover, it enables users to create, program, and seamlessly execute complex lighting designs with both precision and flexibility.
ELM: ENTTEC’s award-winning pixel mapping software.
Every great LED pixel light show begins with great mapping software. Let your creativity soar with the versatility, power and precision of ENTTEC’s award-winning, content-based dynamic design suite.
One of the most popular aspects of ENTTEC LED Mapper (ELM) is its highly-intuitive, easy to learn user interface. Combine raster-based media with vector-based, scalable and repositionable objects to represent your LED lights in a 2D or 3D setting. Choose whether your LEDs are in a line, curve or full loop with just a few mouse clicks. Then stretch, resize, or move them around on-screen to match your strips to scale in the real world.
Take advantage of the huge onboard generative effects library. Alternatively, use your own images, 4K video files, or even live streams using NDI, Spout, MPEG or physical capture cards. ELM supports scheduling, live playback and triggering from lighting consoles or third party apps.
Outputting up to 2048 universes of Art-Net, sACN or KiNet, you can easily integrate ELM with your favourite control software. Furthermore, you can use any protocol you like, whether it’s DMX, Art-Net, sACN, ENTTEC’s DMX USB Pro, OSC or HTTP. You know you can map with confidence when you choose the lighting control software that lighting professionals use.
What is pixel mapping?
Essentially, pixel mapping (or LED mapping) is the process of plotting a design onto an array of connected lights so that each individual light performs its desired role as part of the whole scene. Since you can focus on the finished picture without worrying about complex wiring, pixel mapping becomes an easy yet powerful way to create stunning visuals that would otherwise be difficult to achieve.
With the help of special mapping software, you can first create a scaled mock-up of your intended or existing layout on your computer. Next, assign static or dynamic commands to each light. You can do this literally one pixel at a time if you prefer, or instead, simply overlay media files such as photographs, artwork, or even moving videos to reproduce them perfectly across your project.
Once your software creation is complete, you can either feed it live from your computer straight to your installation or transfer it to a show controller for convenient playback later.
“After reviewing a huge amount of options we found ELM software to be the most intuitive and reliable application for the needs. It’s clearly been designed by a team of people with a deep understanding of how a piece of software like this is actually used in the field. For a 6-week run, every night of the week during the British winter, it was rock solid.”
Chris Evans-Roberts
Founder & Creative Director, ITHACA
EMU: DMX lighting control software for DJs + music professionals.
ENTTEC pioneered lighting control for musicians with the release of DMXIS in 2009. Since then, this popular sound-to-light software has evolved into the even easier-to-use EMU.
Moreover, EMU is a state-of-the-art, intuitive software package designed specifically for live musicians to run automated or responsive light shows.
ENTTEC have worked alongside top musicians and audio engineers to bring you this next-gen package designed to take your live performances to a whole new level.
By combining sound with light, you can create a fully-immersive experience for your audience and stay ahead of the competition. What’s more, you won’t have to employ a lighting operator. It’ll change the way your audience sees you forever.
Furthermore, even with no previous experience with stage lights, EMU is easy to use and will quickly give you the power to create outstanding atmospheres and visual effects to enhance your music, letting you focus on what you do best: hitting the right notes and putting on a good show!
Here’s how to make custom light shows easy!
Meet Jack Murray, director of Recording Arts & Commercial Music at the Chicago Academy for the Arts.
By integrating his performance with the EMU lighting control software, Jack can concentrate on playing music while his lighting rig runs perfectly in sync, creating a more immersive experience for his audience.
Hear what he was to say (and sing!) about EMU here – and note that these are all Jack’s own thoughts: this video was not a commissioned or paid presentation.
Device management.
Finding, managing or testing your ENTTEC device over a network has never been easier – or more fun.
Simply download and install ENTTEC’s EMU software for FREE – then use the interface to locate your controllers, configure your settings and even update to the latest firmware.
So, get your groove on and give it a whirl today!
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