I believe it has, and it is my unbiased opinion that this little unit will fill in the gaps between sound engineers/producers who are too stuborn to accept the advances of the digital realm, and the ones who seek digital convenience but are partial to the sound of a live amp in a room. Before you pass judgement yourself, be sure to watch the videos on the Digidesign site.

http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=48&langid=100&itemid=39631

The ability to so quickly and conveniently change guitar tones, and running the live “digital” signal out to an actual analog source, I believe will change the way guitars are recorded. If you have a bad taste in your mouth for amp sims due to other less realistic sounding amp sims, I urge you to give a try to the Eleven plugin. It in my opinion, is the best guitar sim I have heard (and I have used GR, Revalver, GTR3, Amplitube, pretty much all of them), and also have a couple of different amps at my studio (orange tiny terror and 2×15 cab, marshall dsl2k and 4×12), so I am quite accustomed to how an amp should feel and sound when you play through it. I feel eleven even without using the rack unit, is a good enough playing experience, and you can get some amazing guitar tones by mixing a direct in eleven track with a live recorded amp track as a double.

Can’t wait to get mine!