Chris,
When you said fairly cheap for the nanoKontrol, I was expecting low hundreds as everyone opinion on cheap and expensive can vary greatly, but to my amazement, I found it online for only $60. Black or white as you said.
If i understand from reading a little, it can be used like a hardware controller for MyDMX. So instead of having to use the laptop for controlling fixtures on the fly and/or changing scenes, you can have the midi controller 'learn' this stuff and you can control your light show from the controller. Do I understand this correctly?
and while I'm thinking about it, is there a way that you can program mydmx or a midi controller or something else, that for light shows, the lights can go with the music. Something like sound activation, but DMX controlled?
Allen