These "what's the best" threads always remind me of the guy who buys a new guitar every 2 months and a new amp twice a year. And the issue is that he doesn't know how to play.

Or this Pete Barbutti bit about the "chordine".

http://youtu.be/uzkixTbOchE

What makes Reaper good and Protools suck, because YOU use one or the other? Ease of use? I installed Reaper and looked at it for about 2 hours and found the interface confusing and clunky. Why? Because I am used to Real Band and Sonar.

They are really ALL the same. You record track 1, then track 2, then track 3.... all the way up to 48. The different with Real Band, as we all know, is that it generates music so you don't have to, but once they are in the DAW (and I still wonder why we have to use some oh-so-techie-sounding 2000s term for what we called "Sequencer" with the original Cakewalk product) what is really the difference if you plug in a vst reverb product into Protools or Sonar or Reaper?

So I am not being a wise guy here. I am actually interested in knowing why your "Chevy" is better than his Dodge or her Ford? (Notice I put Ford last...) Don't just give the guy your preference, Tell us why and what your experiences were when you were comparing them (and if you have that strong of an opinion, I assume that you have tried more than one and have compared them) side by side.