I haven't heard anyone say that RB can't do polished work. As Rob noted, plenty of folk have demonstrated that great music can be created with RB.

There's no magic to any DAW - they all "sound" the same.

There are good reasons that people clamor for features. But it doesn't have to do with making better music. It's got to do with making it easier to make music. There are many ways to skin a cat, and the listener doesn't care how you got there.

Once you've used a tool that makes a critical workflow function easy, it's twice as painful to go back to the "old way" of doing things.

But as Rob said, if the hunt for tools is taking you away from making music, it's a refreshing change to go to a minimal tool and focus on the music instead of the plugins.

-- David Cuny

My virtual singer development blog
Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?

BiaB 2025 | Windows 11 | Reaper | Way too many VSTis.