Out of curiosity. As a casual edrummer, what advantage does the Mimic Pro give me over my cheaper module and a laptop? I understand having a laptop is a pain if you move the drums around (and I am assuming you would have a laptop), but is that all you are getting out of this - a portable VST machine?
Well, MIMIC is not a vst teleportation, it's a OS build for the module and expandable, others parts can be added like sequencer, fx with update etc.. Higher resolution triggering, 1-4096, compare to 1-128 to others module. With the editor later, you will able to imports users wav and build multilayered instruments, mix from different sound\ library together in one kits, this is more complicated to mix vst in PC. There is song\click track\metronome routing built in, this is another things you need to add as extra device or laptop, you can routes everything on audio outs, You can route direct mics to any individual outputs, can route Overhead mic bus (actually a sum of all overhead mics from all instruments) to any individual output, can route Room mic bus (actually a sum of all room mics from all instruments) to any individual output ,can route Reverb bus, metronome bus, click track bus to any individual outputs including mics.
Direct control of trigger inside instead of using x module with computer, you will have different result and consistency, each vst have their own control and each module have their own control, you are mixing 2 "triggers" system together, consistency is not the same.