yea
Yeah i mix both digital and analog. To be honest i hate the idea of digital, but it can be made to work for you if you pay alot of attention to what your intended sound should be like. But, in the end, no matter how well i can disguise the 1s and 0s with trickery... they are still 1s and 0s. So i try to do a little of both. I have a hard time getting what i want without digital editing, but there are some things tape will always do better no matter what. One of those things is pitch variations. Im into changing the speed of things to get gimmick sounds, and tape does that really well because you are actually slowing the tape or speeding the tape physically, digital just computes those traits. So while it will work in digital, its not as good as when you do it with tape. And so on and so on.
Ive never found working with the CPU to be difficult, but it can feel a little soulless compared to touching real knobs and feeling the top of your mixer and its warm etc. You really gotta work to make digital effects sound similar to analog effects, and in the end, they will still just be digital.
I think i came full circle from hating digital and never wanting one shred of it in my setup, having all my analog stuff break, switching to digital and being as creative as i could to make it work for me, then realizing i had lost something by switching, then realizing i could not give up certain elements of analog, and i couldnt give up certain elements of digital. I had to die-hard both ways to come to the middle ground and be happy there.
Good luck man, i hope your recordings sound how you want them to.