So I'm looking to get a lot more processing in my rack, possibly ditch a few aging pieces. I have a spare E-MU 1212M card, an unused 2U short length server chassis and a few more bits for a PC build, but I'd have to get a motherboard and CPU. I can get a dual-core Atom processor with the mobo for $180 and that's the extent of what I'd also have to purchase the rack adapters for the little keyboard and the little monitor. So I'd have to spend around $300 to get this up, whenever I decide to do it.
I have a copy of Peavey Revalver MKIII I got for Christmas last year so that would go on there and I figure what's the harm in putting all my VST plugins on that as well, it's not like I'm throwing them around on the net for free. I still paid and it's still just me using them. I can use VST plugins in Revalver.
I don't really dig amp sims, but I'd have the ability with 2 stellar ins/outs with zero latency to mix amp sims and the real thing if I wanted. Dual 1.6 Ghz CPU also seems better than dual 500Mhz. I don't know, AxeFX could be using a bitrate higher than 192Khz and have a better converters than the E-MU. That E-MU's converters are the same as on the Pro-Tools HD 192 though.
I guess what I'm asking is are the effects and amps on an AxeFX or G-system better than what you have on Peavey Revalver, Waves, Sonalksis, the built in effects on the E-MU DSP card and the stuff you get for free with Cakewalk Sonar X1? I'd rather have the best than the cheapest, but amp sims being a distant second and studio-quality tone shaping and noise reduction first, is this a good way to go?
You guys that own an AxeFX, G-system or ElevenRack, are you guys still using your DAW for shaping or is all that done on the unit when you record?
