I was running a timeline, big sky, volante, hog , and 3 drive pedals , but I have come to like the Fractal Delays and Reverbs a little better than the strymon and I just need a little extra processing power to get my presets all ported over from the 3. The volante will stay , it just sounds great and it hold function is simple and sounds amazing. I think I will keep at least a couple of the drive pedals though. I really like the 1st gen Dan Electro Cool Cat Transparent drive. It just a little extra sparkle. For some reason, I like it better than my Timmy, even though they are supposed to be pretty much the same, The Keeley Super Phat Mod pedal sound great in the FM9 loop as well. That should give me more the ample processing. I need to use a rjm GT controller until the fm9 gets songs/sets and can transmit expression pedal travel as CC values. It would be nice to have the RJM GT w/ FM9 support but it is minor issue for now. I'll have a giant pedalboard instead of a rack (Quite a bit lighter though).