Lighting Designer · Programmer · Operator
Lighting Designer / Programmer / Operator, 2026
10 photos →The Scratchpad is the plot tool I built for my own prep and then left open for anyone to use. Hang truss, drop fixtures onto it, set your trims, auto number and auto patch the whole rig, then take it somewhere real.
Drawn in the Scratchpad
The same file exported as MVR, rendered in Capture
Workflow tools written on real tours, for real showfiles. All of them live on my Patreon.
Builds a complete punt page on your own showfile and keeps it maintained. Add your own presets, MAtricks and Types later without rebuilding a thing.
The color engine out of my own showfile: fast, type-aware color control built for punting.
Consolidates repeated MAtricks programming onto shared pool items. Tested on a 35,000-recipe touring show: 4,000+ recipes in one pass, zero reverts.
Scans every page and lists all of your group masters: where they live and which groups they control.
Walks your preset pools and reports what’s actually used, so you can find the dead weight before it tours with you.
These all live on my Patreon, where members can download the files and get the updated versions as I write them.
I’m Chris Haynes, a lighting designer, programmer, and show operator. From production design through the last cue of the night, I build shows that hit as hard visually as they do sonically.
When I’m not on the road, I’m building grandMA3 plugins that make programmers faster.
