audio interface with DSP effects

I was thinking of buying a decent portable soundcard for doing gigs and occasional recording, like E-MU 1616m, or Presonus FireBox, but, then I started thinking about advantages of having some decent DSP effects, like the ones that come with Tc Konnekt 24D interface(Fabrik-C and Fabrik-R).I can't see any additional advantages of having those except for recording purposes..

Does anybody have a soundcard with DSP effects? Quality ones? Are they considered as generally good?

My Emu had some and they were pretty lame compared to what I could use in vst.

the motu mk3 traveler comes with a nice mixer software where you can monitor with no latency any incoming input. From there you can put on 3 different dsp effects, Eq, compressor and reverb. The reverb is alright but the eq and compressor sound surprisingly good.

i've got a focusrite saffire pro24, but there is a pro24 DSP version that incorporates a few effects from the liquid range. i can testify to the quality of the audio interface, not sure about the effects though.

  On 9/18/2010 at 11:54 PM, Awepittance said:

the motu mk3 traveler comes with a nice mixer software where you can monitor with no latency any incoming input. From there you can put on 3 different dsp effects, Eq, compressor and reverb. The reverb is alright but the eq and compressor sound surprisingly good.

I've heard only good things about mk3. That would solve my firewire related problem(Ricoh chipset).