Help me design my live/recording rig!!

[te-problematique]

Hello and thankyou to all who reply!!

I'm a music student who is also an engineer/producer/ear bleeder (pa guy). I'm a guitarist and an effects loving one at that, however I don't have any effects for live (although I use guitar rig when i record at home) and am looking at creating an entire rig that is switched through a computer for simplicity that combines and switches everything (pedals, computer effects, amp settings if possible) plus keyborad sounds (i dabble in keys as well).

I'm thinking my setup would be something like gat into pc and from there in software switch my patches using a program (kore perhaps? this is another question!) so i can have pure amp tone or crazy moded synthed tone. plus also be able to switch fluidly.

I've been looking at getting one of those semi-pro high I/O interfaces such as the studiokonnekt48 or the focusrite saffire 26 (I also want to be able to record a bunch of channels through decent preamps/converters (audient) which are adat and i have access to).

My other problem ofcourse is how does one possibly switch a rig like this, which is why I have been considering a floorbased controller like the one with guitar rig (only have the demo at the moment as I haven't decided which way i want to go) however I'm also a windows user, and I know how windows dosen't play nice with two interfaces like mac does, so this is something else that is annoying the hell out of me.

If you guys can offer any advice at all that would help a hell of a lot! As i said i'm a windows guy, but at the end of the day a DAW is a DAW and I want something that is going to work well and be cost effective (the macbookpro's are ****ing expensive here (new zealand) compared to equivalent dell)

Sorry about the sporadic nature of the post!

[te-problematique]

Anyone?

[Remoteness]

I'm thinking your thread would yield more replies in this forum...

I hope better late than never will apply to your concerns.