Apex is the flagship tier of the Eos family.
Offering the most sophisticated, comfortable, and customizable control surfaces
for the professional programmer and the processing power to support your most complex rigs.
Like the rest of the Eos family, Apex uses the ever-expanding Eos software.
With powerful tools like Magic Sheets, Color Pickers, Direct Selects, the Playback Status Display,
Fader Configuration, as well as 3D programming and visualization with Augment3d.
Apex consoles feature powerful processing and a dedicated gaming-class GPU
that handles complex scenic and rig models with ease and supports beautiful 4K displays.
All Eos Apex consoles feature 24K of output and share the same programming tools and capabilities
but offer different configurations for displays, Playbacks, and Target Keys.
With three sizes to choose from; the 5 10 and 20
you can choose the hands-on experience to fit your needs and budget.
A programmer interacts with their rig through touch screens, hard keys,
Encoders, Faders, and Playbacks. Apex consoles are generous with all of them.
Apex also gives you flexible connection options
helping you customize and future-proof your desk and lighting network.
Let's take a closer look at everything you need to know about your Apex hardware.
All three consoles include 4K displays for crisp graphics
making 12 hour days less stressful on your eyes.
These screens have vibrant colors and a 160 degree viewing angle.
The Apex 5 has a single 24-inch display
and the 10 includes two.
The Apex 20 boasts two expansive 27-inch 4K displays.
The display panel articulates on two, axes allowing you to position your screens for transport,
standing desk operation, or use at any other angle.
If you're familiar with other Eos desks you'll recognize the keypad of an Apex console
but with more space we added direct access to useful functions
and moved some keys further out to allow for future expansion.
With the expanded keypad layout
we've moved functions from this section up to allow for future expansion
and keys closer to the core.
we've added commonly used functions to hard keys.
We've added [Snapshot] and [Fader]
and over here near the keypad is [Offset] for quick access.
And that means we've moved [Undo] up under your display keys.
All programming keys are CHERRY Red switches
and new key materials allow for brighter backlighting of the labels.
The all-new Keypad Display is a customizable touch screen at the heart of your programming.
The keypad display is now the home of the Soft Keys
and the associated CHERRY keys feel like the rest of your programming buttons.
the top part of the display can either hold Custom Direct Selects or Magic Sheets.
The screen also uses haptic feedback to maintain that keypad feel.
Eos flagship consoles have always had six encoders and a dedicated Encoder Display.
The category navigation keys have moved up above the display, including [Custom].
Apex includes haptic feedback on your main encoders
which includes force-feedback for your framed parameters.
To get parameters on the command line you can press the Encoder button.
In addition to the six main Encoders, Apex includes eight new mini Encoders,
and one Navigation Encoder.
Mini encoders can be operated in two different modes:
The first is "Extended", where your mini Encoders show two more pages in addition to your main Encoders.
The second mode is "Independent", where your mini Encoders operate separately from your main Encoders.
In Independent Mode, you can use the soft category keys to switch between categories,
or you can use the Navigation Encoder
This is great for when you want to leave some parameters accessible while you page around on your main Encoders.
Each Encoder is backlit to quickly tell what parameter is mapped to it.
Eos Family flagship consoles have always included haptic feedback on Encoders.
The physical feedback this provides
allows you to keep your eyes on the stage and not on the touch screen.
Like the main monitors, the Encoder Display has extremely high resolution to help prevent eye strain.
When selecting all of our displays,
our engineers made sure each touch screen had similar pixel densities
to keep all the monitors looking fresh - even after a 10-hour day.
Apex-class hardware has multiple banks of 10 Target Keys
with high resolution, frameless displays,
and key travel designed to fit in with the rest of Apex's programming experience.
These keys allow users to customize their work surface
while still allowing for the tactile response of a physical key.
Apex 20 has five banks,
Apex 10 has four banks,
and Apex 5 has two.
Target Keys are easily customizable:
You can select any targets from Direct Selects,
you can enable or disable Flexi,
there's also an "Arrow Mode" where you can set where the arrows are on the Target Keys,
you can set your increment, icon position, and icon opacity.
Each bank is independently configurable.
Target Keys bring Direct Selects directly onto the programming surface.
Even the Main Fader Pair has received an upgrade:
The 60mm motorized faders are capped with two of the OLED keys
which act as load buttons and also display the state of your Playback.
Apex Playbacks have maintained a consistent feel with previous Eos consoles and wings
but have gained some powerful new hardware additions.
Playbacks come in banks of five
which share a dedicated haptic display to locally show the status of your content.
And each Apex console gets its name from the number of playbacks on it:
Apex 5, 10, and 20.
Each Playback contains the same short throw, 60mm, motorized fader,
and three configurable buttons.
There are also dedicated fader paging buttons to keep you moving fast.
New to Apex, are the endless scroll wheels.
Each wheel can take on additional properties of the content mapped to the playback below it
and the backlighting will change so you can quickly identify what is mapped where.
The wheel can be mapped with things like Global Rate tools, or Effect Sizing,
and is detented so you can feel the clicks and know exactly how far you have moved it.
And because these are horizontal wheels and not posts,
it's easy to run several at a time, just like faders.
Each wheel is also a button
which allows yet another function that can be directly accessible for a Playback.
With content expanded to three Playbacks
you'll have access to six faders and twelve buttons to map functions,
giving you ultimate control of your content - with everything you need directly on the surface.
Every Apex console comes equipped with left and right book lights
which are warm white task lights that can be quickly called upon
to illuminate the surfaces next to your desk.
Great for reading paperwork, or taking notes,
you can control them through Settings and recall them in brightness presets,
or access them in the moment
by holding down the [Displays] key and adjusting their level
no matter where you are in software
All Apex-class consoles have a spacious keyboard tray
and ship with a keyboard that has the same CHERRY switches as the console
for seamless transitions between keypad and labeling.
The keyboard is backlit and is secured into the drawer for easy transport.
Also in the drawer, are three USB-A and one USB-C ports
so if you have other accessories they'll have a place to plug in.
To do your work you need more electronics than just the console.
The Apex 20 and 10 consoles include an additional accessory drawer under the faders
with plenty of room for your tablet or phone.
The drawer also contains one USB-C and three USB-A ports
and it includes the dedicated charging port right in the drawer.
Because of its compact size Apex 5 gives up the accessory drawer
but it keeps the dedicated charging port by moving it to the front of the desk under the faders.
Apex has impressive programming capabilities
but it also brings huge upgrades in connectivity.
Let's look at the back of the desk.
Apex uses its massive ethernet capabilities to drive huge systems
and deal with backups, clients, timecode, and other session responsibilities.
With shows and control networks getting larger and larger,
Apex puts ethernet at the center of your connectivity
and gives you expansion possibilities that will take you into the future.
All Apex consoles have two SFP+ ports
which support many module types for 10-Gigabit speeds via fiber or copper links.
This allows for blazing-fast connectivity between core devices
and sleds are field-changeable for easy reconfiguration.
The SFP ports are accompanied by four Gigabit EtherCON ports
which are independent interfaces
allowing you to divide up protocols, or isolate multi-console communication.
All ports provide PoE++ up to 100 Watts per port, with 120 Watts available across all ports.
Even with ethernet connectivity for days
sometimes you want a local connection to tech out a fixture,
or busk a rig without a backup.
To meet the ever ever-changing configurations that shops and multi-venue facilities encounter,
we created the I/O Garage.
Simply add up to four Response Show Control Gateways,
or Gadget II DMX interfaces,
and swap them out quickly, and as often as you want.
Local devices are just as important as your rig
and future proofing shouldn't be confined to your network connections
Apex consoles have USB 3.1 ports all over the desk:
On the front, on the back, left and right, in the drawers...
You can load up your desk with wings and touch screens and still have room to grow.
And everywhere there is a USB-A port, there is a USB-C port
to keep you connected to the newest accessories for years to come.
The gorgeous displays built into the desk aren't your only view into the show-
All Apex consoles support up to three external monitors
which connect with Display Port and can be up to 4K resolution.
If your monitor supports DDC/CI,
you can control their dimming within Eos from the Brightness Settings
giving you full control of how bright your console and your accessories are,
and making features like Extinguish even more useful.
Apex 10 and 20 have two Littlite ports
and ship with 24-inch LED goosenecks
giving you extra surface illumination to reinforce all the built-in task lighting.
Apex 5 has one port, and ships with a single gooseneck.
Apex consoles have a universal power supply
and all desks ship with locking IEC cables
to prevent accidental power loss from tripped-over cables.
The power switch is breakered for easy resetting,
and is recessed to prevent unexpected mishaps.
Apex 5 and 10 come in under freight weight in a flight case
allowing them to be overnighted to the next stop easily.
And that is a close-up look at Eos Apex.
If you have questions, need more information, or want to book an online demo
visit our website at etcconnect.com/Eos
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