It depends upon what you're expecting to control with LOR. LOR is great for lighting, but they do not have a servo contol board (supposedly coming in the future), so forget about controlling 3 axis skulls directly. Yes, you can (and many have) interface some of the various servo controllers out there (prop1, etc...) to LOR using a relay to trigger the servo controller, which then runs autonomously.

I have over 120 channels of LOR. But, I only use all those controllers to run 20K lights at Christmas. For this Halloween, I'm using 40 channels to control lighting and mood (mostly individual spots and a few well-placed fog machines), 8 channels for mechanical props triggered to the music, and 16 channels of DC to control my Talking thru Boris skulls, so they can sing the pirate ditties throughout the yard as part of the 'big show'.

Had I wanted to only control a few props, autonomously (i.e., not in a large coordinated show), I would NOT choose LOR. I'd be looking at the various servo controllers out there. If I later wanted to add all the mood effects and coordinate the triggering of these individual props, I could always then buy LOR to do it. LOR has a sale every June...

Craig