Many people mention that the DPS12 effects board is not worth having, and I have to disagree. Sure, there are better reverbs available, but used creatively the effects are worth having.

As an example, Adam came to me today with a drum loop he'd recorded off a CD (just for practice use, so I'll mention it was on the intro to Shawn Mullin's "Shimmer" from the "Soul's Core" album, which I heartily recommend).

I copied the loop to another two tracks and offset it a snadge so it also played on the offbeat, dropped the level down on the copy, and rolled off a lot of the top and bottom end of it with the EQ so the two loops wouldn't clash. Then I routed the original loop through both effects units, one set to a pitch shift effect (left and right pitched down individually, which grunges it up nicely), and the other one to whatever you like - flangers, phasers - in my case it was a very short studio reverb which widened and thickened the sound considerably.

All in all, in about 10 minutes we had a nice new grungy loop that was unrecognisable from the source, and which would otherwise have been difficult to achieve without sophisticated processing on a PC, all inside the Deeps with no external processing at all.

You could go further by recording the effects output and then trying other effects - gating and compression work well on loops. You can assign all the tracks to the extra bus for bounces and by moving the faders up and down on certain beats for the different loop offsets you can get some really nice accents or fills going on, and record them all.

So next time, rather than recording the drum track in stereo and calling it a day, try deassigning everything but the drum tracks from the Deeps, and use those spare tracks and the effects units for a bit of creative drum processing. When you are done, mix the processed tracks and bounce then down to stereo. Put the new drums back in the mix and you may be pleasantly surprised...