So it's either Analog knobs, or fully digital with menus and software? no inbetween? Well there is an inbetween.
I was in this boat years ago, I liked having a leslie simulator, a flanger, a phaser, and a chorus. It unfortunately beat up my tone, filled up space, and made my pedalboard complicated. I went with Line 6's MM4 Modulation pedal.
There were 16 modes of all sorts of modulation. I liked the Tri-chorus & dimension choruses the most. with 5 knobs that covered various parameters that worked on all the settings, once you found a setting you liked, step on one of the footswitches and hold. It saved that sound to that button and with 4 buttons it gave me plenty of options. I think I paid $150ish for mine, and it was great. The only bummer was that you needed to make sure you used a special cable for your pedalboard power supply, as the power was not the standard 9v style. I had 2 chorus modes, a flanger, and a Tremolo set in it, and It's easy to see how one of these paired with one of line 6's DL4 delay units could really make a nice pedalboard, and a very simple setup that still gives plenty of choices, with no option paralisis.
I had this with my mesa boogie MKIII rig, and eventually I went to POD Pro with a power amp. I parted ways with more than a few pedals, the MM4 was one of them when this change occoured, as my POD Pro had all of these modulations built into it already. I don't miss it, but it's one of those things that really gives a ton of bang for the buck. Too bad they don't make it anymore.
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