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Reaper has been an absolute joy to work in! The stock setup is not that user friendly but Reaper is so customizable that you set the pace for what your workflow will be. The fewest words I can use to describe it is: Make a DAW! With the help of SWS Extensions and Reapack you can set up Reaper to work for you, instead of you for it! An absolute steal for the price they charge for small businesses. (its not free so please buy it). The PDC (plugin delay compensation) has been rock solid in my time using it. Key commands are super customizable so you can have your favorite plugins on the tips of your fingers!!! Reaper is great for working with video as well when you get the FFMPEG libraries installed. Definitely my DAW of the year (past 3 actually)

FL Studio Is just amazing I love how versatile it is. If your a beginner, you can download the demo and have tons of fun, learning and exploring how EDM is made. I would definitely recommend FL to beginners and advanced users since it does everything you would basically need. All the Plugins that come with FL are high quality and easy to use. The interface is also very smooth and I would put it Way up in my Beautiful Category. FL, "the fastest way from your mind to your speakers" ;D 2020 EDIT: FL Studio is still a super remarkable DAW with lots of amazing stock plugins. Some things I would like to see refined are: Patcher: • I would like to see patcher get a shortcut key so we can drag and drop our plugins in and out of our signal paths. Holding said shortcut and L clicking would bypass the plugin. • Lighter on resources. FL is still limited by 12 slots for the FX in the mixer. Patcher (afaik) is unlimited, but you take a performance hit from using many of them. Audio editing: • Per item/clip pitch knobs. At the moment one knob controls all related audio. And "make unique" for every audio clip can get a bit irritating (and tedious). • Better ZPlane Elastique Pitch implementation. Both Ableton and Reaper don't take a full minute to stretch or pitch an audio clip (both are almost instant), and the Stretch algorithm takes up much more resources than needed. • Better performance at higher PPQ. By default Ableton runs at around 480ppq, Reaper at 960PPQ! FL by default runs at 96ppq. Setting FL's to 960 bogs down on Resources a lot making some projects almost unplayable. PDC (Plugin Delay Compensation): • Midi still lacks PDC, and as a result using something like Shaperbox 2 for ducking results in it not triggering at the correct time. Overall 4/5 from me. A stunning DAW with really good stock plugins. The workflow is getting there, and the PDC has been fixed somewhat in newer updates. Looking forward to what they do in the future.

Okay, first of all, I LOVE SERUM... the oscillators are so clean and crisp. When you make a wavetable.. what you see is what you hear!!! its amazing!!! the fact that you have 8 LFO's to work with blows my mind, since you can modulate almost ANY KNOB that is VISIBLE. the Unison is also quite amazing since you can go up to 16 voices, which you can fine tune in the Global tab. This Is simply the cleanest and most versatile Synth IVE EVER OWNED!!!!

This keyboard has been with my family for a long time, it used to be my dads, but he handed it down to me. The keys feel really good for its age and I can still use 5 pin midi out on it to play midi to my computer. The stock sounds on it is really dated having old brass, organ, piano, guitar, percussion etc. But you can always use those for ruff layers to really make your tracks pop and feel full. You can still program your own patches on it too, its a bit more tricky than more modern options tho... Anyhow I will love this keyboard for many years to still come! :)