Thanks for all the extra answers! I took it to practice having had about 30 mins to set up at home and it was brilliant. Absolutely fine getting a decent amp tone quickly, then added a compressor, 2 stage overdrive chain, volume, 2 delays and a reverb and ran straight into an amp+cab combo at the end of the chain. I know there's much better ways to set up a chain which I'll tinker with next but for last night it was absolutely fine as it was. Our sound person loved me as they had complete control over my volume and they said the tone was as good, if not better than my analog set up. And because I knew they had control, I found I played much better because I knew wouldn't be playing too hard at any point, etc and muddying up the acoustics in the room.
I know I've got a long way to go in getting things exactly how I want them but the plug and play (with minor tweaking) tone that I got last night was really great and the interface was so so simple. I think I'll have no hesitation in putting my analog gear up for sale apart from the flak I'll receive from my friends for switching to digital. And yes Jeff, you're correct and I co-ordinate our worship band so I can access the building whenever I need to and have access to the desk, etc. I'll be sure to take advantage of being able to tweak at live volumes and with my in-ears. I'll be looking at Brian's WT patches and also I've joined the Facebook group and a guy called 'Alexguitars' seems to release some pretty popular patches. Of course it'd be nice to set my own tone up but I like what those guys are doing with snapshots and creating blocks for swells, big chorus's, etc which I could get some inspiration from.
Looking forward to getting stuck into it! Even just from playing quickly at home this morning with headphones I loved the ease and functionality of having a jam with myself and getting a huge amount of sounds I would never have got from my old set up with minimal setup time.