Fran,

I agree there. Sometimes I would get a little overwhelmed with Sonar and I'd spend more time trying to program properly to complement my workflow than I did creating. I often used N track Studio for that very reason before I started collecting a lot of Vst's. N Track never did get along well with a lot of my Vst's or with multiple soundcards.

I had no problems with a few of the Vst plug ins I tried in Mixcraft. Just the mfx wrapper. It's probably the wrapper's problem, not Mixcraft's, as it also doesn't work well in Xlutop chainer. I Iiked Chainer but I replaced it a while back with Sonic Bytes Phrazor, as the latter allows midi syncing and has a pattern sequencer in the interface. I figure if nothing else, if I want step sequencing functions I can open up Phrazor or even FL inside of Reaper if I choose to use it as my host app. I like Reaper because it's very simple to record both the Audio output and midi output's of any of my softsynths back to an Audio or midi track. I had to jump through way too many hoops to do either in Sonar and SQ01, and also in the past FL versions. I didn't get that far with Mixcraft to see how that would work. Midi editng in it didn't appear to be what I'd like vs what I already have, but if it has reliable audio time stretch and slicing functions, sometimes I prefer working that way anyway vs trying to edit midi files.

At the end of the day, we each will have different ways of working, so no one App is going to be the best for everyone. I agree that both Mixcraft and Reaper are great values vs the cost, and so is FL, when compared to Cubase, Sonar, etc.

Reagrds,
AJ

[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 04-25-2008).]