A lot of the DMX control surfaces allow you to put midi in or sound in. I've set up those new LED par cans, and at one place I took down 12 old par cans, and put in 3 DMX based LED cans, and there are 2 huge advantages. First the lack of heat, and that's a big deal on the stage. Second you put a gel on a par can and you are stuck. With sliders for scenes you can run through and change the scene for each song. The LED's gave better coverage, more colours, strobe if you want it. I put in one place with a stage and a dance floor and they wanted when the stage was purple to have the dance floor purple, the all goes red. They thought that was going to be tough, and I was trying to buy time so it took 2 hours so I could get a few bucks, they get cheap when you stroll in, plug in an xlr cable and 15 minutes later it's running and they think they could have done that themselves. Ha. The forget I read the manual written in Chinglesh, translated it, and understand the terminology and terminators.

I saw a new one for small gigs at the store, they called me to push it, because I end up helping people buy and set up the stuff, and it had a stand like a speaker stand, and 3 big fat LED's on the thing, I have to go pick up the Foot Controller Mac forced me to buy LOL. And I'll get the specs on that and post a link, looked like a good solution for small gigs.

John Conley
Musica est vita