Thanks for all the input. Think I've narrowed it down to the E-mu or the Yamaha...

Seems to me I'd be shelling out a bit more for the E-mu, and the other downside is that it looks as though it'll take up loads of space. But the filters sound cool.

The other thing I heard about the Yamaha was that when you route sounds out the seperate outputs, the gain really floors off. Can anyone with a Yamaha give more info on this ie can you simply sort that by boosting the gain on the desk, or is it terminal?

Thanx