loopdokter That’s quite a collection! lol I hear you when talking about full recall with plugins. The only hardware I ever owned were a Mono Lancet, Virus Snow and a Virus C. I like the tactile and immediate control but just couldn’t be bothered with the workflow setup of hardware (cables, mixers etc). So it’s plugins only. What I do sometimes though is just record a plugin live as if I was fiddling with hardware.
Makes for a different process because you are committing to audio straight away. Recall with plugins is great. But sometimes it also means being able to keep tweaking. Sometimes you just have to commit early once you have an inspiring sound and go from there. I would prob never go back to hardware though. Too many upsides to plugins for me. And there are many absolutely great sounding ones. I try a lot, but always filter it down to a handful that I truly like best.