Tracks to FOH, click to the in-ears —
one press starts the song.

Plenty of bands do, and it works — until it doesn't. A laptop is a general-purpose computer that also wants to update itself, go to sleep, throttle when it gets hot and put a dialog box on screen. SPARK does one job: it boots straight into your set, with the click already routed away from FOH and the lights already tied to the song. If your laptop has never let you down, keep it. If you have ever restarted a machine between songs, that is what the €795 buys.

Yes — that is the normal setup. SPARK has two independent stereo outputs, four channels in total. Tracks go out on the first pair to the desk; click and guide vocals on the second to your in-ear rack. The two are fully separate, so nothing bleeds into the house mix. They can also be used as four separate mono outs.

However suits the band: a MIDI note or program change from a drum pad, pedalboard or keyboard; a plain footswitch wired to one of the two digital inputs; or the web interface on a phone or tablet. Songs that segue can also chain automatically so nobody has to catch them.

Yes. MIDI Out sends notes, program changes and control messages at exact timestamps inside the song, so patch and preset changes land on the beat instead of on someone remembering to tap a switch.

Each song is its own file, and a set is just an ordered list of them. Reorder it from your phone in the dressing room, and keep as many sets as you play — festival short set, headline set, acoustic night — all drawing on the same songs.

That's exactly what it's for: you design a scene per song once, and it runs with the track from then on. Worth being clear about what you need on the other end, though — SPARK sends DMX512 or Art-Net, so it drives your own bar of fixtures, or a house rig when the venue gives you a DMX line. In a club that keeps its lights on its own desk, you'd still be running your own fixtures.

Yes. SPARK speaks standard DMX512 over its 3-pin output, so it drives the fixtures, dimmers and moving heads you already own — no need to replace anything.

SPARK is built to run unattended for years, but no single piece of hardware is immune. For shows that genuinely cannot stop — theatre runs, permanent installations, ticketed events — we recommend keeping a second unit on the shelf as a backup. Your show files copy across in minutes.

You can. The software is open source and there's a free Community Edition image for Raspberry Pi on our products page — the same show engine, but you supply the hardware and set it up yourself, so what you end up with depends on the Pi and interfaces you pick. SPARK is the version we build, test and support as one unit: the right ports on the back, a tested image, a 2-year warranty, and it runs out of the box. If tinkering is half the fun, start with the Community Edition. If it just has to work on show night, buy the box.

Delivery takes roughly two weeks. Shipping is a €40 flat rate worldwide, and less within the EU.

VAT is already included in the €795 price. Any customs duties or import charges in your country are paid by you on delivery, as is normal for international orders.

Send it back within 30 days, no questions asked. Open the box and try it properly — we just need everything that came in it returned.