My take is this, there is no reason to move to another DAW other than RB unless you need it. If you make most of your tracks in BiaB/RB and do not do a lot of fancy track work like using tempo lock VSTis, deep level editing, drum transient work, heavy automation, real fancy comping of tracks and such then what do you need another DAW for.

Look i have Reaper 4 fully licensed, Sonar X-1 essentials, Multitrackstudio, and Studio one Producer. I was constantly chasing down all these features everyone raves about. Truth be know i was building all my tracks in RB, even recording my other tracks there, and mixing them. Most of the deeper features i will never use. If and i say IF with capital letters i was ever to open and run a studio to record other people for pay, I would settle into one of the big name DAWs and really use it for the end result, but for a personal studio where the biggest project i do is one of two things.

1. a original song that i create, that consist of 5 or 6 BiaB track, and two or three tracks i record, like guitar, and vocal, what the heck do i need Sonar Producer for. Sure it has deep features, that i most likely will never need just to mix down my song.

2. Mix down a set of tracks for a live backing band, usually never more than 8 to 10 tracks, and many times just 4 or 5. Most live bands have around 4 to 5 players. Add a couple harmony tracks, and wow a whopping 7 -8 maybe.

None of this overtaxes RB. I have also found that RB plays nice with a lot of real good third party mixing plugins, so if the PG don't get it, then i can bring in a few others.

I do wish i could fully use Jamstix, EZDrummer, and such, but until i can they do work as static drum players off midi input very well, just can't use the brain feature.

I would like a slight upgrade to the automation, but for the moment it does work. I would like a better audio editing window with a little bit better attention to detail, and a true comping system. All the basics are there. Look at the quality ROG's gets using Powertracks and RB. His work is very polished, same with Rharv. If you try to tell me RB will not do polished work, that is because you have not really dug in to it and really learned it, or your system has some issue with it. Sure it is not quite up to the standards of Cubase, Sonar, Logic, and a few others, but it is very capable.

If perchance you run into a situation that requires more then go do some deep research and get a finishing DAW to polish up that masterpiece. I gotta tell you i searched and searched, and finally came to the realization i was just chasing propaganda.

Ever go and read these other forums? I have spent time at Reaper, Sonar, and Studio one forums. There are those that love each, and those that bash them. One on every forum clamoring for that software to be like the other one. Gotta have this, and gotta have that. Makes me wonder do they actually ever really use the programs, or just spend time pounding away on forums.

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