Ok,
I was thinking about using xLights/Nutcracker to create some effects, put it into a dummy LOR file, then drop that into LOR. I only have a 170 pixel (510 channel) sign and a 960 pixel (2880 channel) mega tree. I will have a handful of 27, 9 and 3 channel dmx controllers doing the dumb strips and nodes.
Running a I3 Win 8.1 laptop with 4 gig ram. Will this run sluggish? Have got everything setup yet so I can't test it.