Mario, i agree with you on that one. I have bought cakewalk music creator versions 1, 3, 4, 5. and finally Sonar X1 essentials. While i love the program, it does far more than i will most likely ever do. I bought Reaper 3/4, and have actually only recorded in it about 4 times. Great program, and very deep, and super flexible. I also own MTS and it is a rich, and powerful DAW, very under appreciated it the DAW world. Old Mac turned me on to it a few years back. I have tracked many a song in it. Still once i got familiar with RB, and learned how easy it is to operate. I just use it. Heck i would upgrade BiaB even if RB did not exist, but getting RB virtually free is so cool.

I guess my frustration sometimes comes from how quickly people sell RB short. I also watched that happen with MTS. I would tell oepole about it, and they would dismiss it immediately. With RB it is such a powerful and very close to complete system. Sometimes i think it does stuff with such ease folks think it is missing something. I once thought it had no bussing system, until RHarv showed me how, and then there was the above mentioned automation. While i wish it was a bit more like Sonar's Automation. The system does work, and better than I thought.

When i said you were deeply invested, i did actually mean from a time sense, as you seem to have been using it for sometime per your posts and comments from the past. That is what i meant by getting to know a tool. The right way to view this stuff. It is so easy to get caught up in the latest and greatest, and forget that iconic albums were recorded on far less sophisticated equipment than RB.

I have to admit this is always an interesting subject.

Can you imagine what the Beatles would have been able to accomplish early on with RB?

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