Automated lighting programming via data entry is certainly not as much fun as collaborating with an LD to create looks. However, there are times when it is required to get data into the desk exactly as the LD envisioned. When these situations arise, it is important for a programmer to understand the responsibilities and procedures to guarantee a great programming session. Listening skills, along with programming skills, are keys to ensuring a successful production. Hopefully too, you will get to share in some collaboration along with the data entry programming style.
-Brad Schiller, from “Feeding the Machines,” PLSN, July 2017, page 57
