Had to fly super-light for this round, so my usual APC40 was out, and in stepped the iPad running Lemur in an ioDock. It's been great so far!
I love being able to edit the interface on my machine and have it update on the iPad in realtime - it made building and tweaking this setup super easy.
I'll do a proper write-up on this VDMX setup soon, but the basic idea is that there are three surfaces for this show - a DJ Booth screen, a set of Columns, and a Back Wall. I run three layers of content - a Background with fullscreen clips and textures, a Foreground with isolated elements on black, and a Playground with interactive Quartz Composer elements.
I use a trackball for triggering clips into the layers, and then I can assign layers to the three surfaces using the Lemur setup, as well as change up their masking and opacity levels.
I've got to run off for a quick dinner before the show tonight, just wanted to share my new favorite controller!