Programming Smarter, Not Harder with MA Lighting International

When you’re running back-to-back stadium shows like Krone 2025 and Scorpion Kings Live at Loftus, every second of programming time matters. We caught up with Andre Siebrits, the lighting co-designer and programmer behind the effect-heavy doubleheader, to find out how he managed to deliver a fully timecoded 8-hour production using the ‪@MALightingInt‬ grandMA3. For Andre, the gamechanger was Recipes. “On a show this scale, you need tools that bend with you, not against you. Once you get your head around Recipes, you’ll thank yourself for the hours saved, not just in pre-vis, but on site when things inevitably shift.” Using Recipes, Andre and his team were able to: Sacrifice minutes in pre-vis to gain hours of flexibility on site Adjust quickly without rebuilding entire sequences Stay flexible across a massive in-the-round concert setup Deliver a precision timecoded show for tens of thousands of fans In our full interview, Andre unpacks how Recipes reshaped his workflow, the challenges of tackling two different genre of shows in one weekend, and why adaptability is the real superpower of modern programming. #malighting #grandma3 #lightingcontrol #programming #recipes #thatlightingguy #dwrdistribution #itsallaboutthepeople