#Lightkey software install#

#Lightkey software install#

The OLA “daemon” (olad) is installed on your Mac as a separate component by the Lightkey installer (you can even choose to install OLA alone). Note that Monospace is not affiliated with the Open Lighting Project. It is being developed by the Open Lighting Project. The Open Lighting Architecture (OLA) is an open-source software framework for sending and receiving DMX through numerous hardware interfaces and protocols. We therefore recommend against running Lightkey on battery power. Note: Even though Lightkey is very efficient, it has to constantly output DMX which prevents the CPU from going idle and increases energy consumption. You can use the built-in app Activity Monitor to compare Lightkey’s CPU usage to other applications. Lightkey is a modern application highly optimized for Macs, so performance will not be an issue at all in most cases. Instead we recommend that you download the free Lightkey edition and give it a try with your setup. Please don’t ask us if a particular Mac configuration is suitable for your project-we cannot answer this. If you run other major applications like Ableton Live or ProPresenter alongside Lightkey, it’s also advisable to have a decent CPU and plenty of RAM.

For example, a substantial project with many moving lights performing complex effects requires a more powerful GPU and CPU than a small setup with a few LED lights. The answer depends on many factors, so we can’t give you a simple answer here apart from the minimum system requirements.