If tight, useful integration between your composing software and your DAW is important to your workflow, I would suggest taking a look at Studio One and Notion, both by PreSonus. There are a couple of excellent contributors on the PreSonus forum. Especially, check out the posts by Surf.Whammy. He posts a LOT of Notion/Studio One and Notion/Re-wire info.

Notion's instrument libraries are really pretty good as a starting point. There are a number of forum posts in the Notion subforum re various instrument libraries and their use in Notion.

A good way to get into Studio One is through the Artist version (plus the VST extension).

Forum: https://forums.presonus.com/

Notion: https://www.presonus.com/products/Notion

Studio One: https://www.presonus.com/products/Studio-One
Versions: https://www.presonus.com/products/Studio-One/compare-versions
VST/AU/Rewire Support for Artist: https://shop.presonus.com/VST-and-AU-and-Rewire-Support

Last edited by TheMaartian; 01/13/20 06:16 AM.
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