For PLSN’s Oct. 2018 “Feeding the Machines” column, Brad Schiller, who had undoubtedly just completed a particularly long and grueling late-night programming session, decided to interview Louie Luminaire, capturing the fixture’s thoughts on everything from RDM to designers who indulge in gratuitous flash and trash. Brad then asked Louie to name the one thing he wished he could say to every lighting programmer. Here is Louie’s response: “I wish that they would take the time to study each of us and really understand our capabilities. I always feel bad when they miss out on certain features just because they did not look at our DMX charts. Too often they rely solely on their console fixture libraries, which often have errors or omissions. Plus, I really don’t like when a programmer blames us, without checking first to see if we are doing exactly what we are told to do. For example, I was blamed for having my magenta wheel in a bit during open white. The problem was actually with the programmer’s palette/preset and not at all my fault. I was almost swapped out for another unit! I could have lost my job due to that programmer’s mistake.”
-Brad Schiller, from “Feeding the Machines,” PLSN, Oct. 2018 page 117
