Max/MSP has been around for a long time too. I've got a magazine article from 1997 about how U2 used Max to drive everything on their PopMart & Zoo TV tours.

Max/MSP has been around for a long time too. I've got a magazine article from 1997 about how U2 used Max to drive everything on their PopMart & Zoo TV tours. Not just the lighting & video screens, but also controlling the synthesizers & the effects pedals routing on The Edge's guitar for different songs. The whole show was run from a single Macintosh Quadra 650 running Max (though they kept a second Quadra 650 booted in case the first one crashed during the show). [The article was "U2 Live! The computers behind PopMart" by John Krogh, in the Nov/Dec 1997 issue of Music & Computers.]