John Marovich, who has been working with lighting for more than 25 years, first stumbled across LED lighting controller software Madrix about five years ago. It was a key tool in his toolbox when he worked on the BlizzCon 2016, a gathering for the gaming community held Nov. 4-5 in Anaheim, CA. Marovich was called on to run a live contest promoting the popular Heroes of the Storm video game. The show involved two teams of professional gamers playing against each other in front of a live audience. Marovich worked with Tyler Elich of Orangelite on this show and found Madrix to be “perfect” for the job’s pixel-mapping needs. “It handled input DMX, but also video, and in this live event scenario it was important to be able to do that…we were flowing massive amounts of media and generating different colors and patterns at an incredible speed as opposed to searching through a library of media files. Madrix allows me to come up with a solution in a moment’s notice.”
—Kevin M. Mitchell, from “Software Solutions,” PLSN, Jan. 2017 page 62
