Maybe you are considering buying or making your LED costume and looking for the best software for LED Tron shows. You should stop wasting your time and download free LED Strip Studio software, which is the best software to make your future show.

Let’s take a look, why LSS is the best software for You

Tron LED Dance - LED Strip Studio Tutorial – plays from YouTube or Vimeo once you press play

Creating effects in real-time

LSS software is offering a very simple process of creating effects, it doesn’t matter if you are looking for video effects or just simple color effects. If you already have an idea about the visualization you can create effects in “offline mode” (which means you are not connected to the controller) and see them in the preview window. If not, just connect hardware to PC and you will see everything in real-time. What is also really speeding up the creation is the ability to quickly copy and paste animations between the suits in banks but also on a timeline.

Two LED Strip Studio windows side by side – a video scene with a black-and-white radial gradient over LED suit outlines, and the strip scene settings with the color animation library
Picture 1 – Creating video and color effects

Timeline synchronization with music

It allows you to precisely synchronize your scenes with the music. Using the timeline is pretty straightforward. Just drag and drop the scene from the bank onto one of the lines and set its duration with the right button of the mouse. We are using the Timeline feature the most when creating LED dance shows and mixing multiple scenes. It allows you to organize the workspace scenes for each suit and then mix them as required. What also saves a lot of time is the ability to define fade in and out for each scene in the show or the functionality of using relative time that helps you set up how many beats you want to show.

The show timeline of LED Strip Studio – scenes placed on numbered tracks over the blue waveform of the music, with the Use Relative Time option on the right
Picture 2 – Timeline synchronization in LSS

Stable software for any live event

Because we are doing shows on our own, our top priority is software reliability, because there is nothing worse during the event than not being able to do the show on time for the client or having a malfunction during the show. This is the reason why we made LSS very stable and we don’t need to have headaches before the show.

The LED Strip Studio 2 workspace – banks of scene previews with LED suit outlines, the live controls, the show timeline with the music waveform and the show synchronization panel
Picture 3 – LED Strip Studio Workspace

Additional important features worth noting:

In case you made your own suits, you can define the custom design and work with it in LSS.

Midi MTC synchronization is good for TV shows, festivals, or big opening ceremonies, so you can synchronize additionally LED screens, beam lights, or lasers.

The speed of operation. If your client requests some changes at the last moment, it’s really no problem to change the show or colors of effects in a few minutes.

Visualization – we never create shows with dancers. We usually just sit with the choreographer and we prepare the show completely using the software only (requires previous experience).

Limits or I should say no limits – you can use as many suits as you need. Just add additional LSS controllers and you can create shows for 20, 30, 40 or more dancers…

The Show Synchronization window of LED Strip Studio with the MTC tab open – the MIDI device, the start time and the incoming MTC time
Picture 4 – MTC timecode synchronization with show

Support when you need it

Because we are making everything in-house (hardware and software) we can answer every possible question that you will have. There is nothing easier than writing us an email or a message on WhatsApp and we will help you solve your problems.

The LED Strip Studio toolbar – tools for banks, scenes, shows and settings, help, a Zoom online meeting for support and feedback
Picture 5 – All tools in the software

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us immediately.