Thinking about 2008 and what i'm going to improve in my show.
It seems there are lots of LED DMX fixtures out there now and it looks like i'll be getting at least some of them.

At the moment my lights are controlled via a Trancension Baby JC-1. Nice little portable controller, but limited to 4 shows and 96 scenes. To be honest i don't find scenes that much use, because on some of the fixtures this just fixes the light in a position/gobo/colour etc, so not much use on it's own, but great as part of a running show.

I've looked at the Stairville controller, and to be honest this doesn't seem too much of an upgrade as it has 6 shows, but the Martin Freekie has 24 shows, 12 of which are accessible directly.

I've read the manual but it doesn't tell me much about the running of the shows.
It seems you can run the shows in sequence. i.e show 1, then show 2, then show 3, then show 1 again ....
But can you run them at the same time, i.e show 1,2 and 3

I'd want to do this, as i'll have LED PARs on show 1, scanners on show 2, Impossibled on show 3 etc,
and i might want to run with one or all of them at any one time.

With a larger number of shows, it gives me the option to save some shows for the slow dances and some for the more rave/dance stuff strobing etc.

Any comments or help appreciated, as i'm confused how to move forward and improve my show for 2008 without spending 'ridiculous amounts'
Thanks

Dave

The Freekie does i believe allow you to have multiple chases/shows/cue stacks running at the same time.

The most common way of using this is to have all colour attributes on one chase, movement on another, gobos on another, etc. You can then mix and match things as you require

e.g. all beams still with no gobo and red
or, the same but all beams circling, etc