I personally love the simplicity of Real Band, and the layout.

I do ALL recording and most track generation there, and ALL editing and splicing there--sometimes using BIAB for export if it is a very simple song.

(I do outline the song in BIAB first, though, then open in Real Band.)

Once all tracks are generated, edited, recorded, spliced, whatever, I export and then move to Cakewalk for mixing, where I have more than 1000 VSTS I think now.

But Real Band is where it all starts for me.

I love Real Band.