The way i look at it, unless there is some glaring reason why RB or PTPA does not do what you want why chase all over for another DAW. As I said above, or er on the other page, i did that for a long time. I have found that RB does just as good a job recording as anything else. I only use another DAW when i run into something it does not do. That is rare these days.

I bought reaper recently just because it is really cheap, and has some really deep features that you can't get anywhere else that are interesting. Still i will most likely do most projects in RB. the only thing RB does not do yet is run my jamstix program under the jam settings, and do fancy automation. If I need that Reaper or Multitrackstudios will come to play.

I tried Mixcraft, but to me it was decent and fairly stable, but rather simple and more geared towards loop based stuff and i found that part of it to not have enough variety.

HP Win 11 12 gig ram, Mac mini Sonoma with 16 gig of ram, BiaB/RB 2026, Reaper 7, Harrison Mixbus 11 , Presonus Audiobox USB96