Greetings
I need to replace my controller and have pretty much narrowed it down to the Show Designer 2. The problem seems to be availability (25 day backorder).
I recently found the Robe version of it that appears to be a direct rebadge of the Elation, is this true? The Robe controller is in stock but about $300 more. Any idea what justifies the price increase? Reading the specs etc on both controllers it appears Robe had just copy/pasted the info from Elation.
I am in sort of a hurry to purchase a new controller and wondered also if I went with the Robe version would all of the libraries software etc be compatible as they don't have much on their site.

Thanks

Forgot to mention, for now it would be controlling 6 mac 250's, 24 par 56's and 16 pinspots. In the near future all the pars are being replaced with LEDs.

Yes.. they are compatible.

Dan,
I'm not sure if it's the same one....see below,but Centerstage is a good company to work with:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ELATION-SHOW-DESIGNER-2CF-DMX-LIGHT...ZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

Good Luck,Gary