The RP1000 features over 160 internal stompboxes, effects, amps and cabinets including the famous DigiTech® Whammy�. The RP1000 is built for the stage with heavy-duty die-cast metal chassis, and 14, heavy-duty metal switches and treadle plate. RP1000 has two operating modes. Preset mode is where the ten numbered footswitches (when pushed) loads a pre-programmed preset. There are ten banks of ten presets--100 user and 100 factory presets. Presets are built right on the front panel using a matrix-like list of parameters and three knobs labeled: Tone Library (40 different combinations of compressor, distortion, stompbox, amp/cabinet modeling, EQ and noise gate); Effects Library (40 different combos of chorus, delays and Lexicon reverbs); and lastly Effects level.

The other mode is called Pedal board mode. In this mode the ten footswitches act like individual stomp pedals so while in a preset you can switch them in/out or add others that were not originally in a preset.

I had loads of fun playing through the RP1000--especially the 20-second phrase looper where you can build stacked harmonies while playing live. I liked that there are jacks to connect to you amp as well as studio XLR DI outputs, stereo 1/8-inch headphone jack, downloadable X-Edit Librarian software for building presets on your computer, 2 in/out USB audio streaming for recording digitally using the included Cubase LE4 software.