Well talking to other techeads out there, their feeling on recording software is that Protools rules largely off of the fact that it was the first, best and only digital recording workhorse for a long time. Protools still has the best plugins available but its midi support is only marginal. I did a lot of qualification before investing my money into Cubase and the concensus seemed to be that although Protools does still have that incredible 3rd party support that I wouldn't really be taking a step backwards with sound quality if I went with Cubase. So far I agree, the rudimentary stuff I've done in it has all come out leaps and bounds better than my days tinkering with Acid 4.0...
My only reason for wanting stellar MIDI support is because when you couple Reason and Cubase and Reason is ran like a plugin that the sound quality is much better than if you were just exporting your mix out of the stand-alone program. That's been somewhat negated with R3.0's M-Class modules, but not completely. And I do a lot of live recording work too so, perfect fit.
Speaking of plugins, it seems like I've nailed a good bet with Reaktor 5's VST software but, does anyone else have any rec's for VST software? How are those Virus modules?
