If you have a few extra mic stands, try bolting an ellip to the base and putting a gobo in it. 26° or 36° source fours work pretty well. You can focus them from the floor in front of the cyc up onto it diagonally. Other than that, color is a great tool when lighting more mellow acts like jazz or...
The 513-1024 input would be your second universe. Be careful when you do your fixture patch to assign the fixtures to the second universe. (i believe it goes universe#/starting channel# so you would use 2/whatever your start channel is) I'd assign the most used control channels to submasters...