I do mostly all mixing, processing and effects in the rack.
(just recording the mix in my audio interface)
I like it because I found a way of analog processing in my rack, that sounds good to me - and more special than processed in my daw.
But at the moment:
I also use a module that acts as multitrack recorder - "Half-Time-Modular 8TR"
I record my jams on it, drop the SD card later on my computer and use the seperate stems in the DAW.
- so I have both - the individual stems and the whole mix with analog processing.
But there are many possibillities and ways to go,
People say that ES 9 is hard to setup - but once you got it running, it works.
But I never tried one.
Some people use a tascam mixer with multitrackrecording
A 1010 bluebox as module or desktop can be a solution - to mix and record
For routing - I keep it very simple -
Aikido acts as my drum bus, (with some saturation, compression, filtering and ducked feedback with other modules like dark matter, MSCL, 100 grit and more.....)
I take a copy of each channel to record the dry and wet audio of each channel with the 8TR.
Greetings
Chris