What would take you minutes in a demo would likely take me hours. I am not tech savvy. That's why I doing a bit more research on the front and. However, I do understand that will only take me so far.

I hadn't mentioned the definition of composing before because I didn't know about that possibility AND because I thought Ableton was like all other DAW's. AND because originally I was just going to do the backing tracks. Things are evolving as I am finding out more.

I definitely understand that there's no one magic software. Although there are certainly a fair number of people that make their focus Ableton. Clearly your focus is BIAB. Since I havn't done much yet I havn't found my go-to software yet.

From what I see so far, it looks like most DAW's are traditional and for acting primarily as a digital recording system, with a linear sequencer...with varied levels of sophistication and features.

I was kind of set on BIAB with Reaper and then I saw that a lot of people chose Ableton over Reaper because of the pattern based sequencer and composing in it realtime.

I think for now I will do BIAB/RealBand. Later on do a trial of Ableton. I suspect I may end up using BIAB and Ableton together because I know there's a plugin to connect the two. But who knows.

I appreciate everyone's patience in sorting this out. I am creative to the point where it's very easy to get caught up in the details and wanting to explore every option.