I can tell you I am not easily impressed, but the LSP update from 2.0 to 2.5 makes me think they are not going away soon. How long will it be here? I don’t know, but I will not be surprised when Ray Wu decides to discontinue our gear. ‘Tis life.
I grabbed the advanced LSP (8,192 channels) on sale for $200. In the past LSP was on sale post blinky season. Maybe it will be this year? It WAS a huge purchase to me as I am a consummate cheap skate but I don’t think it was way overpriced either. Before I bought it, I watched probably a dozen hours of video and did a ton of research and I found some things I really liked. Later I started to realize how much time I could save over using Vixen. It is slowly clicking, but I am already seeing the benefits first hand. In all reality, the learning curve of smartstrings, etherdongle, an other rgb gear alone makes learning a new sequencing program less exciting.
I really dig the homebrew factor and KC’s willingness to create and share Vixen. In the future, I believe 3.0 will be a contender but I am concerned the same bugs that disappointed me (and started this thread) will continue in the future.