Lightkey For Mac

Designed from the ground up with the needs of creative light designers of LJs (light-jockeys) in mind, Lightkey is an efficient macOS app that enables you to design complex lighting scenes and control almost every lighting element on the fly.

Right off the bat, the first thing you need to know about Lightkey is the fact it comes with support for a wide array of USB-DMX interfaces from a large array of manufacturers, such as DMXking, ENTTEC, and Eurolite, and it can also work with Ethernet-DMX interfaces like Art-Net and E-1.3.

Another noteworthy thing is the fact that Lightkey works with almost any fixture ranging from PARs, moving heads, scanners, blinders, lasers, LED fixtures, strobes, and fog machines that support DMX.

Before we get to the advanced stuff, you should also know that Lightkey features a very intuitive interface that’s specially optimized for Retina displays and the usage in dark environments, with supported full-screen mode, adaptive background color, and user-friendly layout.

A worth mentioning feature is Lightkeys integrated visual editor that makes it as easy as possible for you to arrange your fixture’s physical locations and to add rectangles, ovals, lines, and trusses. What’s more, you can easily resize and rotate LED strips and matrices, and take advantage of the visual representations for pan/tilt angles, color and light intensity, focus and zoom, iris, shutter/strobe, and prism movements.

Last but not least, chances are you will also enjoy the fixture editor that makes it possible for you to take advantage of 200 fixture profiles, and easily create, track, import, export and share fixture profiles with just a few mouse clicks.

As an ending note, Lightkey is a comprehensive yet very intuitive software solution for lighting management that stacks a good balance between user-friendliness and advanced features, thus making it the perfect tool for any LJ or light set designer.