Yeah, you might want to group your tracks into a few buses.. and apply effects to the buses. It'll conserve cpu cos you won't need as many effects, and processing multiple tracks thru a set of effects kinda gels it together many times. You can also bounce instead of routing to buses.

This the problem I have to software, too many options. You have to be mad disciplined. I used to get so hung up with trying to make the mix right... now I just record to the 4 track (or this little 8 track). It forces you to make decisions and live with them. I just shoot for the lo-fi zone and call it a day. It's way less stressful.

Very interesting!
The members of Portishead were saying how they ditched Pro Tools in favor of a 24 track Radar Machine because the limitations forces them to make a decision instead of staring at 100 tracks on a computer screen.