sounds like you work mainly off the sampler!
I have'nt even got the desk yet, just got it off ebay from a bloke for £120 delivered,soundtracs topaz s18;4,thought i'd give it a bash, I haven't got a sampler as of yet either (might have a emu e5000 soon hopefully)
all my samples are on my hard drive or on cdrom/dvd, I just basically figured that bringing the channels from the daw to a desk is going to add to the sound, give more headroom, some nice analogue eq, bit of gain, couple of outboard compressors reverb units ect. I'm using mainly samples and soft synths itb at the moment, daws ableton and acid pro , everyone knows analogue summing is better and thats the direction i'm trying to learn about, digital is cold sounding imo, what do you think? Is most of your stuff done in the sampler, routed through the desk and onto the computer for recording? I'm only an enthusiastic amateur,, looking for tips, cheers for the advice