ETC Eos Apex 5

ETC’s flagship line of lighting control consoles offers a sleek control interface engineered for your comfort and customization. With generous programming surfaces and the power to run complex rigs, Eos Apex is the ultimate hands-on, professional workspace – powered by their Eos Control System.

Eos Family Cheat Sheet

Eos Apex 5 Datasheet

Eos Family User Manual

Eos Family Hotkeys

Eos Family v2.6.0 Operations Manual Supplement (Rev D)

System Capacity

• 24,576 Outputs
• 32,768 Control Channels (mapped to any number from 1 to 99,999)
• 100,000 Cues
• 999 Cue Lists
• 999 Submasters
• 100 Fader Pages
• 4 x 10,000 Palettes (Intensity, Focus, Color, Beam)
• 10,000 Presets (all palette)
• 10,000 Groups
• 10,000 Effects (relative, absolute or step)
• 99,999 Macros
• 10,000 Snapshots
• 10,000 Curves
• 10,000 Color Paths
• 99 discrete users
• Partitioned control
• Show import from Obsession, Express™, Expression®, Emphasis®, Congo®, Cobalt®, Grand MA 1, Grand MA 2, Safari and Strand 500/300 Series
• Augment3d 3D programming and visualization environment, with support for augmented reality features via connected phone or tablet app
• Magic Sheets suite for customized user programming and displays
• Virtual Media Server function for pixel-mapping effects, images, and animations
• Support for multiple languages, including English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)

Hardware/Interfaces

• One 23.8-inch 4K multi-touch LCD touchscreen, in an articulating dual-axis display panel
• Supports three external display port monitors (1920×1080 minimum, 3840×2160 maximum), with optional single-touch or multi-touch screen control and DDC/IC support
• Five 60mm motorized faders, 100 10-fader pages for configurable faders, for channel, submaster and palette/preset, timing and effect rate/speed playback control
• Five backlit scroll wheel faders with button, 100 10-fader pages for configurable faders, for channel, submaster and palette/preset, timing and effect rate/speed playback control
• One 5-inch high-resolution fader display, with multi-touch and haptic touch feedback
• Main Playback with two 60mm motorized faders, and display load buttons
• Two banks of 10-button user-definable Target Keys
• Six force-feedback encoders for non-intensity parameter control
• Eight backlit mini encoders for non-intensity parameter control, plus one mini encoder for navigation
• Dedicated 10.1-inch high-resolution encoder displayy
• Dedicated high-resolution intensity level wheel
• Backlit expanded Eos keypad
• 6.3-inch keypad touchscreen, with haptic touch feedback, servicing softkeys and custom user layouts
• Built-in keyboard tray, with USB A & C ports
• Two front-facing 5-volt/2-amp USB-A dedicated charging ports
• Two independently dimmable warm-white LED booklights to illuminate adjacent surfaces
• Solid-state hard drive
• Dedicated graphics processing
• IEC power input (100-240 VAC at 50/60Hz), inset power switch with integrated breaker, locking regionalized power cable included
• Four individually configurable Gigabit Ethernet ports, etherCON connectors, PoE++ (802.3bt compliant PSE)
• Two individually configurable 10-Gigabit SFP+ ports, which accept modules for copper, single-mode fiber, or multi-mode fiber connections
• One 802.11ac WiFi Ethernet adapter (to be enabled with future software)
• Bluetooth 5.1 for connecting input accessories (to be enabled with future software)
• sACN and Art-Net network output protocols
• USB 3.1 ports, for flash drives, pointing devices, keyboards (8 USB-A ports, 6 USB-C ports)
• One Littlite XLR port
• One Kensington lock port
• I/O Garage with four bays, which accept Response backpack-style show control gateways, or Gadget II DMX output modules
• Multiple MIDI and/or SMPTE timecode inputs, MIDI In and Out, Analog/Serial Inputs, OSC transmit/receive, UDP transmit/receive through network interface or Response Gateways