

Renoise (and Redux plugin) is simpy amazing for sample based music styles, as well as sequencing vsts and hardware. Audio editing features in Reaper are second to none. Reaper! best DAW IMO for the money and super customisable to your workflow + can script own plugins and features etc. Front-patched VCV mini-racks living inside my Reason studio rack would be the ultimate setup. They need to license VCV tech, seriously. And their take on modular synthesis is kind of a joke - 100 currencies for a fixed curation of about 20 bare-bones modules. The insistence that audio and CV are different kinds of cables, a design decision probably made for performance reasons (to avoid running CV at audio rates), is infuriating. The studio rack UI is probably very frustrating for someone with a Eurorack or VCV background.
#Reaper vs mixbus Patch#
In my paid plugin collection, Parsec is fantastic for sound design, PX7 ships with every damn single DX7 patch ever made by anyone anywhere, great 303 and alpha juno reproductions, one of the most usable YM2612 devices around, Revival is an amazingly unique idea turning the Hammond organ into a drawbar-based additive synths processing harmonics separately, and Antidote is crazy simple to program and impossible to make sound bad.

Thor remains a beast a decade later, Malström remains a beast… two decades later. The integrated environment makes it so easy to just sit down and write a song. It’s pretty archaic in many aspects, it’s been archaic forever really, development is crazy slow - they’re a tiny company trying to conceal the scale of their operation behind the royal we de rigueur in music software. There’s nothing like it to get a tune done.
