cakewalk in one of the options I am looking at, but my current front runner is Presonus's Studio one Producer version. It's $200 but I think it brings some advantages to the table. It's one of the newest high end DAWs and that means the architecture is different from the long time standbys like ProTools and Cakewalk. The newer base architecture seems to mean it can do what the standbys can do, but it can do it smoother. At least that is what it looks like to me. I don't know, I will have to wait and see what I do. Unfortunately I have come to know RealBand inside and out so I just HATE to switch. Yet, as I do this full time now I am really getting tired of compatibility issues with all the other software and equipment I use.