Bob, your point about hardware is so true. I have a 15 year old SkilSaw, and ya know what it cuts just as straight of a line as a brand new Hitachi with a fangdangled laser guide.

I love the concept of the new Presonus boards that have fat channel, and all these cool features, but hey i don't really need them, i can track just fine with either my Delta PCI card or my Tasacam US 800.

The trick is to get the tracks down and then mix them, and master them.

I kinda chuckled the other day when the Studio one/Melodyne news hit the fan. I read on the Reaper forum, the Sonar forum, and i even posted it here just to see the reaction to it. People were musing left and right whether they should jump ship at all these places and run with Studio one!!

Wow really, so in 6 months if Sonar and Reaper chose to add ARA, then what? What if Reaper, or Sonar add some other feature that Studio one does not have? Jump back?

So what happens is that we end up with about four or five different softwares that we have to keep current and it is a constant battle to pay for all this "progress"

Everyone keeps calling it "workflow" but really it is more like cash flow! You can take any one of the DAW programs and find something unique about them that the other companies don't have, so no matter which program you use you will always have some feature, or option that is missing. Never mind that there are workarounds for all of them, they are seen as "show stoppers". I speak from experience, i have bought most of them before, i was always in search of the "perfect" DAW.

My hope is that over the next one or two version upgrades, BiaB, and therefore RB will fix the two or three little nagging issues that are needed, cause i would like to settle in to that since that is where i seem to always start from, and just stay there.

Actually i would like to see as i mentioned above the VSTi issues fixed. Make it so that plugins like jamstix, melodyne, and such that need some kind of tempo lock, can work flawlessly. Next upgrade the automation where volume, panning, and effects an be automated with a node based setup like cakewalk. Add to that a "takes" system for setting up folders and such in RB. Do a few stability fixes where there are not as many violations, and corruptions of files, and this system would be killer. I would most likely not upgrade a few of my others then, and rather spend my money here and on some really top flight mastering VSTs.

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