sharke
REAPER. 
 
Cost me $60 more than Sonar, but it was worth it. 

I also have Reaper on trial ... will support them eventually ... loved winamp ... and looks like this is as good. 
Really like the efficiency, the XP and 32-bit support, as well as the DX plugin support. I dabble in old stuff. 
Have a laboratory with plenty of low-spec older XP machines running, think it will be king there. And ej ... it supported my Frontier Alphatrack from the get go. I'm a fan.

Linear Phase

michael diemer
Post deleted while editing, but to your point Kalle, I can't explain why my piece sounded better in Reaper. It could be that a different workflow forced me to do some things differently, and that somehow resulted in better sound.

 
I think it was miracle.  Miracle happen, especially when working with audio.  I would chalk up all your better result to the enigma that is the universe

It sounds like you are chalking it up to entropy and science-y sort of stuff, but I disagree.
I think it really is a miracle, and we can chalk it up to the Jesusonic plus. 

I am totally lost as to how piracy and band lab deciding to make cakewalk free are linked? Cakewalk was never heavily pirated compared to other music programs anyway. Piracy did not kill cakewalk and vandals choosing a different business model than the failed Gibson/cakewalk one may end up being shrewd. If giving away base product gives cakewalk a huge market share, there may be profit in selling add ons.

I feel like I need to add my 2 cents....