Pulling this post out of the grave. I have a 4-person band that most plays small club venues (the echo, casbah, etc.). I'd love to have a portable light setup that provides some drama/interest to our live show and is quickly and easily setup and taken down. While I know MIDI and could probably learn DMX, we don't bring a laptop with us for backing tracks (I could do so - but again that takes a longer setup). The type of shows we're playing we need to be able to setup on stage in 15 minutes and tear down.
Would preferably have a lighting option that stands on its own (I can't be hanging these things at a venue), has an audio-sensitive or 'auto' mode to flip through colors in sync with the other lights (what I understand to be master/slave mode), and ideally in the future could accept DMX if we get to a point where we want to mess with programming lights for our set.
I could spend $1-2k on this if it's worth it and produces a cool effect.
Had my eyes on these:
Rockville MOTIONSTRIP Motorized Moving Head RGBW Color Strip Wash/Beam Light Bar
https://www.amazon.com/Rockville-MOT..._t1_B082369PD6
$200 each
TC-Home 252 LED RGB Wall Washer Bar Light 26 Channel DMX512 Color Mixing DJ Party Disco Stage Show 36W
https://www.amazon.com/TC-Home-Light...07CTLQ8F2?th=1
$65 each
(Rockville makes a battery powered similar deal for $149, $89 no battery)
I've seen bands with smaller 'trees' that are individual stands with LED's that move in scynd patters (down to up, blinking, etc), can't seem to find them with google searches.