I am using pro tracks plus from cakewalk to record with a digitech gnx4 guitar work station. It did away with all of the mess of cables, batteries (it had a 110vac power supply).a bit a head of its time.
The idea was to combine all of the popular effects of the time (fuzz/distortion, compressor, chorus, flanger, phase-shifter, pre-amp, and a mixer) into one cabinet. It looked like a mixer or Moog synthesizer of the era, walnut hardwood sides, aluminum face. Digitech GNX4 Multiple Effects Processor / Guitar Workstation Digitech GNX4 Multiple Effects Processor / Guitar Workstation Directory Site Links In 1979 I built a multiple effects 'box'.