I bought the Digitech RP1000 a week ago. I was able to get the basics down and use it for a gig in 2 days. I've tweaked the settings and saved about 30 of my own patches so far. This unit is incredibly easy to carve out insanely good sounds within a short time. It is pretty darn close to the real thing. I have many of the same pedals so I know how they really sound vs. the sim.
Since digitech deleted the forum where you could share patches, I've created a site to share my patches. here = https://sites.google.com/view/kcmusicinfo/Home