taijiguy wrote: Anyway, I'm still using real guitars into hardware effects into a hardware mixer into a hardware sound card before Cubase does it's software dirty work. Being a purist nowadays is a real struggle.
Being a purist these days is really expensive. I use a real guitar and have a hardware multi-fx pedal that I often use a blank or simple compressor patch for DI recording, but cant really afford much more than that. Hardware is pricey these days (and so is the space required to keep it all). And to quote Tom Scholz (Boston, for those who don't know): "Also, consider the use of technology as an instrument".