Spent the weekend trying to sort out my studio rig, live I've covered but my studio setup I like to run 3 channels.
Clean straight from the bass
An amped/slightly gritty sound
A full on distortion sound generally done from a tall font Russian muff into a tech 21 gt2 clone
So I've managed to do this with the sonic port, moving forward I'm still considering an interface with more outs but I can do this setup now using audiobus and auria the multi track recorder.
It's a great sound, jamup as my amp sound (or bias) and then ampkit for the super gritty tone and just drop a Di pre ipad for the clean sound, that said when recording using the ipad I can digitally split my signal as many times as I want and record clean, gritty, super distortion, synth and even pitch to midi on a soft synth on another channel. I only need the bigger interface if I wanted to output all of these.
More info in the blogs which I'll get done tomorrow night at latest.
So this solves anyone who requires a blended sound for their main tone, essentially digitally biamping or triamping, or hell octoamping (new word?)