I used the Horizon Software which the
Marquee was based on and I really liked it. It's quiet easy to use. I've talked to multiple dealers and all of them have been really exicted about selling
Marquee. I've seen the demo of
Marquee by a factory rep twice. I've also talked to
system designers and other "experts" all of whom love the
Marquee. You will notice that none of those people I mentioned actually own a
Marquee.
The concept is out standing. How well does it work in the real world? Well I can't answer that one. "WHSTrumpet" certainly isn't happy with it... but that could just be one bad
console I suppose.
I'm looking at getting either an ILC or a
Light Palette for my new theater next summer. The one fear I had about getting a
Marquee was that it's a cool product from a small little company. With the big Genlyte
buyout the cool software has been reworked so it operates "in a
Strand way" (as the
Strand guy said.) That's got to be a good thing. The demo I watched of
Light Palette at
LDI was outstanding. I real liked it.
Also, if you are only using 8 movers, and not a lot of other intelligent stuff, you might consider something from the
Strand "
Palette" series. They use the same software. You don't have
encoder wheels. A lot of the intelligent lighting functions are accessed by way of a sepereate keyboard but that is true for the ILC and the Hog iPC. It could save a lot of money.
