Ron, re: "I doubt that ANYONE would do a console like ours at Laserium. Nowadays, it's done with far more flexible CPU's, GPU's, DSP's and ASIC's."
What you say is true, but the same statement could have applied to guitars, pianos, etc. if their development had been stepped on as quickly by modern technology. The advantage of a console is the laserists can develop muscle memory and even an individual style that they bring to each performance - even to live music. I'm not against using computers/etc., but when the designer/programmer of the higher tech systems limit my ability to interact to a time line rather than real time - I'm not up for that...
"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." Pablo Picasso