Warner, It is software and if you saw the effects that it has you would LOVE it. I'm pretty sure you can download a trial version where it will cut output out after a certain amount of time. The best part is that the effects are able to be changed and made custom, you can change the rate, the color, the frequency. And then you store the effects in bins in the program and different DMX values trigger the effects that you stored. It is outputting to three enttec pro clones. I have LSP sending DMX values to an Enttec clone that is configured as an input device,it is connected to a four port usb hub and sends the input DMX signal to Madrix, the DMX value determines what effect gets triggered, it then send the effects out to the four port hub and into the three enttec clones that are configured for output to the programmable snowtubes. I changed the settings on the controller in LSP from zone 3 to zone 1 in LSP to fix the other two problems, aaahhh I think I got it!!! I never changed the corresponding setting in Madrix!!!!!! BRB Let me try that!