Easy answer from another guitarist and Ex-Focusrite user (Liquid Saffire 56 and OctoPre): get the UFX II!
If you have enough I/O ports, sell the SP40 on used market to get a few bucks back, as long as there is still somebody to pay for a FireWire device. Alternatively: use it in stand-alone mode, connected via ADAT.
After getting my 1st RME product, UFX, approx 10y ago, I recognized, what all I was missing from my former Focusrite setup.
Regarding Kubraks comment on satisfaction...
So if you think that you are satisfied now, sorry, but this doesn't mean anything ;-)
Why? Because you only know your Focusrite ;-)
It was the same for me, 1st I liked my old Focusrite setup, because it was new...
[ But then I stumbled into some driver issues, lost recordings and always felt being limited by Focusrite's Mixcontrol.
Another point was the weak documentation, it is really nice to have a good technical manual.
Then I read in a forum post that the metering is not accurate. I couldn't re-measure, but this sounded not good.
My overall satisfaction level decreased over time, so I decided to sell Focusrite completely and to give RME a try. ]
You will recognize later, like I did, how much better RME is in every aspect.
Looking back, there is absolutely nothing which I miss from my former Focusrite setup.
Ok, RME is more expensive, but it is not overpriced. You get a real value for the money for a reasonal, justified price.
And if you should need to seel, you get easily around 75% of street price on averade for the used gear.
This is because of internal design (FPGA based, no USB/FW 3rd party chips) and extremely long firmware and driver support.
TotalMix FX, the digital Mixer, is very flexible, kind of state of the art and very mature since over 20y of development.
Every recording interface uses this one mature and very flexible mixer.
With the current UFX II you get an excellent product.
The analog section of UFX II became an overhaul from the UFX III.
So you have now the same excellent converter like in the ADI-2 Pro FS reference converter and like in the UFX III.
My current setup, if you are interested. Was prepared for mobile use.
https://www.tonstudio-forum.de/blog/ent … iii-en-de/
The Octamic XTC I could sell, but I keep it because of its flexibility (4x AES, format converter, audio over USB).
BR Ramses - UFX III, 12Mic, XTC, ADI-2 Pro FS R BE, RayDAT, X10SRi-F, E5-1680v4, Win10Pro22H2, Cub13