Firstbassman brings up a great question, the OP asked about Mixcraft
So why is RB involved? i believe in the since that:

1. He owns it.

2. He can open BiaB files directly into it, and mix from there.

3. Unless there is something that RB can't do, what reason is there to bypass it?

Some like Mario are deeply invested in Sonar, or Cubase, or Reaper, or Mixcraft and that is the optimum work flow for them. The like those tools.

But for a guy that has not tapped out the abilities of RB, and already owns it, know how to use it, and it does what he wants, why buy something new and have to learn it, unless you just want to.

I always view it this way. If the tools you have do not do the job, get new ones, if they do the job why spend money and time on something you do not need. This time and energy, and not to mention money can be used to really learn the tools you have.

Then again this is only an opinion, and certainly just one in a crowd of them. AS has been said several times each gets to pick what tools they want to use.

I also think that the reason that we, and I include myself in this "we" come back with "why not use RB" when the question was not about that. Is that this is the PG forum, and sometimes we get a little protective of the brand. But under that is the fact that many time, we, and again i place myself in that "we" sell RB short. Sure there are a few things that it needs, but really not many, and many of the so called missing featurea are actually there, they just are a little different from some other programs. Actually the only missing feature that is truely missing is the VSTi timing issue. That one does not work. The others are there but different somehow.

Automation is a big gripe, but it is there, just not like some of the bigger names. Actually if you dig into it, it works pretty good. I would still like to see one enhancement (either change it to be a graphical overlay to the wave tracks, or add the ability to see the wave form ghosted over the piano roll screen) then it would be fine.

Finally i guess i see all the time and money i wasted, looking at every DAW out there constantly chasing features, when all of them do the job, especially if you really learn to use them.

HP Win 11 12 gig ram, Mac mini Sonoma with 16 gig of ram, BiaB 2025, Realband, Reaper 7, Harrison Mixbus 9 32c , Melodyne 5 editor, Presonus Audiobox 1818VSL, Presonus control app.