Re: Software DMX controller for Mac?
Another contender: QLC. (Should start referring to it as QLC-plus.)
It's been around for some time, and was a bit moribund/abandoned by the developer. (Isn't that always the way with FOSS which are always side projects for some mad genius coder with a day job.)
Anyway, a new coder has taken it up (hence the QLC-plus), and new releases are coming out.
Advantages:
decent mac interface
build-your-own-screen-layout
works without much config hassle with USB enttec, DMXKing, etc interfaces
(but not enttec ethernet interfaces 
)
rock-solid midi input, super-quick configuration there
darn good tap-tempo
generally simple & intuitive
disadvantages:
fairly primitive, compared with Chamsys
been a bit crashy in my experience
The midi is a big selling point for me.
My club really has no $$ to spend on lighting, audio comes first, as it should. So my goal for a while has been to use cheap midi controllers with a full-fledged software environment. (I've seen people bring in DMXIS with the behringer controller, and the latency is absolutely enraging.) So far, QLC seems like I can push faders on a nano-kontrol like crazy, and it Just Works.
The primitive part -- it took me quite a while to create a good bump with a decent fade-out (but admittedly that takes work in Chamsys too). What I can't do yet is create a cue stack with fades between cues AND with a fade on release of the stack (trivial in Chamsys, hog, etc).
Anyway -- if I were starting from scratch, I would absolutely start playing with this vs DMXIS.
Latest release: https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus
cheers,
waldo
