"I tried Realband the first time it came up, years ago. I was (and still am) using Reaper flawlessly"
That's it RealBand's great when it's working but when you say it needs a rewrite in a new language out come the knives, so you are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
I got endless attacks from stating the bleeding obvious, it's like being in a time warp in a hidden corner of the internet.
The bugs, errors and unfixed problems keep on for years and years, and the "Expert Programmers" come on here and say the "the old Delphi program from the DOS days is fine, you are crazy, deranged, let's stick with it for another 50 years".
RealBand should work flawlessly, I see so many user put off because it don't.
As you say Reaper don't have all these problems, why ? is it a baffling mystery ? really ?
"They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will"