I have pretty much every DAW in the universe installed on either my Windows or Mac computers, and could run in a session in any of them and often have. However, I use Sonar as my DAW...there's a reason why.
FYI I wrote a book several years ago about a competing sequencer that I'm enough of a gentleman not to mention.
It sold really well and the publisher wanted me to do the same thing with a different DAW, so I said I'd like to do one on Sonar. They asked for the same length, same chapters, same number of screen shots, etc. I finished the book and they were upset because it was considerably shorter than the first book. I said that couldn't be, the contents were exactly the same.
When I put the two books side by side, I noticed that it took consistently fewer steps to do something in Sonar than in the other program. The cumulative effect made the book a lot shorter. I eventually had to pad it out with extra screen shots to hit the target length. I had always felt Sonar was faster than other programs, but this told me why.
Of course there's a learning curve but once you "learn your instrument," you'll find you can do pretty much anything with Sonar. And the comping is outstanding - the best there is, IMHO.