Hello, I am new to the forum and though it would be a good place to look for lighting solutions/recommendations.
I play bass in a band and we are upgrading our lighting rig. I have been running our lights with a Chauvet C-2 Foot Controller but now we are adding 4 GoBos and I need more control. We do not play with a click track, ableton or midi. I
We have 1x Gigbar 2, 6x Pars, 2x LED bar lights, 4x Gobos and 2 Spider Lights. We’d like to create a scene to run for each song and sync it to the live music (like sound active modes on the GigBar). That would allow me to trigger the scene and play the song without fiddling with lights throughout.
I’d like to switch to a software based controller and interface. I already tried MyDMX Go with an iPad. Some of the features were perfect like the sound activation mode through the mic but I need a little
more control over the lights than what it offered. I’ve considered the MyDMX 3.0 option as well but not sure yet. I’ve looked at LightKey and SoundSwitch but neither looks like it supports the sound sync functionality that I’m looking for.
What I’m looking for…
DMX Software
Mac Compatable
Sound Activated (able to sync to band through the built in laptop mic or external mic)
Fairly user friendly
Inexpensive yet reliable hardware interface (Enntec? DMXKing? ADJ?) that will work with software and Mac (one universe/512 ch)
Let me know what your recommendations are or if there are other options I’m not thinking of like maybe sending a midi trigger off a drum mic or something (not sure it that would be possible or how to set that up). Thanks!!