I find this type of discussion kind of useless here at a site meant to promote recording software. I am not picking on you, as it is a very good and valid question, but one better served at a neutral site.

Here you are going to get users of PG music stuff. And a few like Matt who use both. I like something Mac said a while back, on another site. There is no swiss army knife program, each has it's value, and most will do a darned good job. After all a swiss army knife does everything but very little extremely well. Any good tradesman has a full array of tools at his disposal.

With Recording software, I feel it boils down to need and budget. Powertracks here is a darned nice program for the money, it is feature rich. Certainly not up to Sonar Producer in features, but still solid and capable. Realband is Powertracks on steriods. Take PT and mix in a nice dose of Band in a Box

For me it depends on the process. I use Realband and Band in a Box for from scratch creations, as a well Real band for live work. For polishing a tune and fine detail work, i use a program called Multitrackstudio. I feel it is one of the best and most stable, not to mention easiest to use and setup. But there are things that I like RealBand better for. So i keep a tool box full of tools.

Grab one and learn it, that is the way to get things done. Don't do what i did in the beginning try four or five and never settle into a process. When i finally did that it all came together.

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.