silvercn
I also have Mixbus 3 which has some some features - I wish it would display larger.... 

Did you use the font scaling in the preferences? Worked really well for me. And the latest interim release offered up some more clarity on the text and controls.

I gave it a go at one time. There were a few things they got right (e.g. automation) but it didn't ever click with me. Same with Reaper. If I was to jump ship, I'd most likely go with Tracktion, which ain't the wimpy program you got with your interface 10 years ago. It's been exploding with development since its author regained control of it (version 7 will be announced at NAMM). 
 
But once you realize that all DAWs pretty much do the same thing, that you can make great records with any of them, you'll ultimately conclude that it make sense to stick with the one you're most comfortable with. The DAW, after all, is just a tool and ideally should be transparent to your music-creation process.

bitflipper
The DAW, after all, is just a tool and ideally should be transparent to your music-creation process.

Except many (upstairs) gripe about workflow. Isn't that what ostensibly sets one DAW apart from the others (on an individual user basis)?

bapu
Except many (upstairs) gripe about workflow. Isn't that what ostensibly sets one DAW apart from the others (on an individual user basis)?

I never use the word "workflow". That makes it sound like some assembly line job where an efficiency expert stands over you with a stopwatch and a clipboard. This isn't work!
 
(To those who do it as a full-time profession: before you call it "work" look around you - there are folks out there slaving away at real work. You sit in a comfy chair in an air-conditioned room with subdued lighting, and at the end of the day the fruit of your labor is not a bucket of coal or somebody else's clean toilet, it's something that enriches the world.)

I never had such stress and pressure as i had when i worked with sony bmg for a rnb singer whom i went platnum with here ... 6 month of hell lol don t think it s alwayz fun .... I m agree with you and not at the same time ;)
Teaching is fun , i really don t get it like job even if i m fuked after 5 hours of loud speach ...

Back to op subject .... I just asked the french distributer for a copy , i think its getting closer to maturity ....still screensets , x ray are missing , i don t if we can create templates and if we can create plugins menu layouts ....but i will give it a go ...

bitflipper

bapu
Except many (upstairs) gripe about workflow. Isn't that what ostensibly sets one DAW apart from the others (on an individual user basis)?

I never use the word "workflow". That makes it sound like some assembly line job where an efficiency expert stands over you with a stopwatch and a clipboard. This isn't work!

+1000.1

bitflipper

bapu
Except many (upstairs) gripe about workflow. Isn't that what ostensibly sets one DAW apart from the others (on an individual user basis)?

I never use the word "workflow". That makes it sound like some assembly line job where an efficiency expert stands over you with a stopwatch and a clipboard. This isn't work!
 
(To those who do it as a full-time profession: before you call it "work" look around you - there are folks out there slaving away at real work. You sit in a comfy chair in an air-conditioned room with subdued lighting, and at the end of the day the fruit of your labor is not a bucket of coal or somebody else's clean toilet, it's something that enriches the world.)

Its can be fun on occasion and fairly satisfying, but if you are doing it a lot....it gets just as frustrating, uninspiring, boring as another job, no matter what tools you have.
 
Working with spreadsheets all day developing solutions and analyzing data you could say the same thing....comfy chair air-conditioned room with subdued lighting.....   
 
If you are making money or not with the tools, workflow is a fine term to use for it.  Time is valuable, either you could be spending it doing something else, or accomplish more in that same time.  
 
Clean toilets don't enrich your world? 

Clean toilets don't enrich your world?

Yes, they most certainly do. But I'm glad I don't do it for a living.
 
I had an epiphany many years ago. I was returning home from a trade show and pushing a stack of anvil cases on a hand truck across the parking lot at the Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix. I had a suit and tie on and it was 110 degrees. I was tired and sweating profusely and feeling sorry for myself.
 
But then I looked up and saw a roofing crew working atop the parking garage in those hellish conditions, and I thought to myself "no matter how bad I've got it, at least I'm not a roofer".
 
I, too, sit in a comfy chair. Most of my work happens inside my head, figuring out how to make imaginary things look real. I solve problems on the phone, often dealing with clueless users and self-proclaimed computer experts named Jason (they're all named Jason, or Brett and they all have tattoos). At the end of the day, my back aches and my eyesight's blurry.
 
But I still maintain it isn't work.

Comfy chairs rawk!!

Je suis un roofer