Well I purchased a Reaper license for a few reasons:

1. The Reaper Forum has many excellent and helpful folk on it.
2. Reaper is not expensive and is reportedly very stable.
3. Reaper is used by my high school composition teacher who says he knows some of the developers, has been using it for many years.
4. Reaper can do everything all the other DAWs out there do, except the stuff I don't know about, engineer stuff, perhaps.
5. Reaper also twisted my arm with the Personal Edition pricing which is exactly the same functionality as the commercial license.

That being said I will definitely learn to navigate RealBand and might end up using it in most cases. Best regards!