Is anyone still using hardware?

Personally I think there are some really good hardware guitar sims (if you can call those hardware) like the Axe FX II and the Kemper. Same for hardware reverbs. But those are definitely a price class above the equipment you listed - software equivalents of those should be at least as good. 
 
As for hardware synths, I think romplers have mostly ceased to be useful if sound quality is a concern, though they can still fill out a mix sometimes. 

Much comes down to preference and convenience really. Hardware requires more cabling and space, whereas software is often quick and captures dry signals. When editing, dry has advantages of gross changes after the fact (patches, etc.), but can also lead to an editting do-loop if not disciplined.

It is definitely worth playing with both options to see the pros and cons of each for yourself.

schwa
I recently upgraded my PC and purchased SPLAT after being away from SONAR for 8 or so years.  Back then, there were some real advantages in having my Roland JV syth, POD XT, and TC reverb hardware to do some of the heavy lifting for samples, guitar tones and reverb.
 
Now, with Rapture or Sampletank, Overloud TH3, and updated software reverbs, it seems like plugs may have caught up, and modern CPU's are better able to handle the load. 
 
I understand you still need real microphones, and am considering upgrading my mic preamps.  My old MOTU 2408 seems to be up to the task as well. 
 
But have you been moving to doing more "in the box" as the box has become more powerful?   Or do you still use hardware for the sound?  I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

This is somewhat of a loaded question.  Some will extol the virtues of hardware over software and vice versa.  The truth is, if you know how to use the software equivalent properly, you shouldn't need hardware.  Controllers are a different thing, and each to their own.
 
The issue really is in the hybridization of a system.  This is why...when you go in and out of the box, you only have a limited amount of headroom, and if you clip...that's it.  Once a signal is in the box, and it doesn't need to go out again, and because you have virtually unlimited headroom...emulator software can then perform as their hardware counterparts.  
 
Think about it for a second.  Most hardware has a sweetspot, and sometimes the sweetspot is just below or just in the red...in digital this runs counter intuitively to digital theory, which says the signal can't go into the red period.  So how are you going to get the desired effect of emulator software if you can't push the signal into the sweet spot?  And you can't if stick with the current digital audio theory paradigm.
 
My advice is if you prefer analogue, then use analogue all the way, of course still using the digital interface and software, but remember to get that analogue sound it's going to have to be got from the hardware...you probably also need some sort of summing mixer to really beef up the signal either in the mix or master process.  But if you can work out the digital emulator paradigm, which is more flexible...you probably wont shift back and your bank balance will thank you.  
 
Although I'm always buying Waves plugs, and of course I have my monthly subscription for Sonar...and by the way...WELL DONE ON LPEQ.  Beautiful plug-in, I've only had one chance to use it...but I noticed the difference right away.  It was very smooth, and as they say in the biz...very musical...made a huge difference to my master, which is what I use it for.
 
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I gradually made the  change  over the last 5 years,  only using hardware modules when I didn't have a VSTi that was up to the task.  I don't think I have recorded any of my hardware modules/synths in over a year. I would add Kontakt to the list of VSTi"s that made this possible as there are so many quality sounds available for it.  Sylenth was also significant in replacing my Novation and Nord analogue modelling synths. Also a big fan of Trilian for bass parts. 
 
I like to have an electric piano in the studio that I can just turn on and play.  The only other hardware that I use is an Avalon 737 channel strip (20 years old and still going strong! ) on vocals and acoustic guitar,   and occasionally a Roland HPD 15 to play percussion  parts. 
I certainly believe that armed with Sonar,  a good keyboard controller and half a dozen VSTi's you can create most anything.  Another huge advantage of VSTi's is that issues like syncing synth clocks and sample rates and restoring patches are a thing of the past. 
 
 
As far as reverb and other FX go it is a no brainer.  Once the sound is 'in the box'  I see no good reason to bring it back out until it is done:)  Vst fx have come a very long way. 

I think hardware can still be useful. I have a DBX compressor that I love. What happens to sounds going through that thing I don't know, but what I do in the box does not produce the same result.

Hi. Due to lack of space, I do not have any guitar amps anymore But I have a POD HD500 that I use, and I like it. It is quite versatile. But after seeing the videos of TH3, I might have to try it out. As for other HW, I have two channel strips with compressor, that I usually play my bass and record vocals through. I have couple of compressor besides them, but they get less and less used. I am thinking about selling them.
So in my case I will probably get more mics and preamps (where I am located now), but I cannot afford the HW I would love to have that I already do have available as plugins (some reverbs, compressors, EQs etc).
Just a little rant and my 0,002€
All the best.

BenMMusTech
My advice is if you prefer analogue, then use analogue all the way, of course still using the digital interface and software, but remember to get that analogue sound it's going to have to be got from the hardware...you probably also need some sort of summing mixer to really beef up the signal either in the mix or master process.  But if you can work out the digital emulator paradigm, which is more flexible...you probably wont shift back and your bank balance will thank you.  

I use quite a lot of hardware. Analogue synths, real guitars into real amplifiers etc. I use plugins as processors and effects a lot, but almost all the sound starts in hardware. I have used software synths and by and large, with exceptions, I find analogue filters beat digital in the same way that pedals and amps beat "emulators".

A hardware sequencer can allow you to create and track a music performance on the fly with a result that would take hours of detailed MIDI work to do in a computer.

Sure, hardware can be expensive. But there's quite a boom in analogue and digital hardware synths these days, the availability of cheap decent sounding synths encourages people to try them and some of us conclude that plugins simply don't compare. If you're the kind of person who endlessly browses presets and loops hoping to find a usable sound I can see why plugins appeal. Ditto on financial grounds and I've been there myself. One area where I do use software is wave-table synthesis, another is sampling. In both cases hardware equivalents are just stand-alone computers anyway.

Fashions change over time. Back in the early 1980s you could pick up a now very collectible Marshall Lead or Super Lead head for very little money (as I did). Because, it was said, valves were "old fashioned", "unreliable" and modern transistor circuits can do everything a valve can and do it better, or somthe sales pitch went. So lots of guitarists sold their valve gear and bought solid-state amps. Something very many later came to regret.

As for recording levels etc. if you know how to do the most basic mixing then it's a no-brainer really. Just track at a suitable level to keep clear of convertor clipping.

Still using the Roland Integra-7.  I only produce composer demos, so working with software synths to get the perfect sound would be distracting.
 

I guess you can call a real drum kit hardware!  
I guess by hardware you are taking outboard synths vs soft synths as well as outboard effect boxes vs plug in effects. 
 
I use it all. My hardware is all still working so I will still use it when possible.
 
 I'm so used to what my hardware does so often can get a sound I want quicker.  The software is a bottomless pit that takes away all my free time I could have been making music. So call me lazy but I use hardware when it get the job done when there is probably better software synth or effect hidden away somewhere too. Once I discover a new soft synth I like I swicth over to that. I have forsaken my Lexicon reverb and Roland delay unit and now just use the ITB versions. But it took a few years for me to be comfortable with them. 
 
For guitars I'm still outside the box for sure. 

I just use preamps: Symetrix 528E Voice Processor for mics and Trakhmann Tube Colour for guitars.

Soundcard ---> Software for me for everything, all my guitar amps/fx are collecting dust at the minute

In my case I am happy to use algorithm-type software for synths and reverb/delay.  I use sampled sounds for keyboards and drums (Addictive Keys and Drums).  I do miss my old DX and ESQ-1 synths but don't really need them.
 
So far I  haven't found a software distortion or tube emulation to suit my taste so I use tube preamps/amps and analogue pedals (e.g. a Palmer Eins, Wampler Dual Fusion, Blackstar HT-Dual and Presonuus Studio Channel).  I did wonder if any of the newer tube emulation algorithms were significant improvements over those in Guitar Rig 4 and TH3 but I assume the newer stuff is a refinement and  things haven't changed that drastically. 
 
 
 
 
 
Cheers

All the listeners care about is the emotional impact of the music. The person controlling the gear is 1,000 times more important than the gear being controlled.
 
I know that's a facile answer and it may sound snarky, but that's not the intention. It's more of a plea for musicians not to be afraid to express their emotions, and to place little - if any - importance on the medium.

I have GAS just like everybody.  I've been psycho analyzing myself and I think it might have to do with the fact that most of my instruments and musical things that were given to me were given as gifts  at christmas.  So I'm trying to relive those memories, the excitement and happiness.  Just a thought.  Also,musicians  tend toward obsessiveness (at least I do), so the obsessiveness of a new toy versus the pragmatism of saving the dough is a battle.  
 
Stop thinking and end your problems --lao tzu

Using more and more hardware these days, basically for everything that impacts performance (hardware synths, guitar & bass FX, mic & guit preamps, etc.) and forms the signal before it hits the box ...
 
ITB for everything once the signal is trapped in the box