Voyetra Sequence Plus Gold
 

DRanck
There really is no one best sequencer or DAW. It depends on how you use it.

I didn't say best, I said favourite 

BobF
 
Do the bits flip in 1s or 2s compliment?

2's complement, of course. If they didn't, the 2-bus would always be in the red.

Since everything I do is all about MIDI, the sequencing capability of a DAW is of primary importance to me.  I left SONAR for Cubase because of the somewhat better MIDI and tempo facilities in the latter.  I do keep close tabs on DAW releases and read the reviews with great interest to see if there are any other DAWs I should be looking at.  Most DAWs have something they do better than just about any other brand.  At the moment, Steinberg seems to have the upper hand when it comes to MIDI management.

Sonar (and try all for my students) 
 
Maschine Studio + Maschine software integration is still unbeatable when it comes to drums prog .
 
Stuff like Geist , Motu BPM , Tremor ect ...are great when i'm on the go without a crazy controler , so the intreface alone is suffcient to go deep

Zo
Maschine Studio + Maschine software integration is still unbeatable when it comes to drums prog .

 
Well I read all the Maschine manuals from start to finish and same with Geist. It became apparent that Geist is far more flexible for sequencing and Maschine has too many limitations.
 
Maschine is a great standalone controller, the software is good for a live instrument, and integration is good standalone. But the major problem with it is...
 
a) Bugs (not that many, but they are whoppers).
b) Pain in the ass when you are swapping sounds around as a VST plugin.
c) Performance as a VST plugin (esp when you have other VST plugins plugged into this VST plugin  ). Of course a lot of that can't be helped but people have noticed big performance problems in later versions of Maschine.
d) Stupidly the patterns always must loop if they are shorter than scenes. There is no way around this. Rumours are it will be fixed... one day..
e) Sonar now crashes with Maschine as a VST, been like this for ages now.
f) Major PC only bugs, such as it will become unusable if you use more than one MIDI out... which has been around for years. They only really care about Apple it seems.
g) The colours of the UI are terrible for me (bad visibility on a black background). It's about time they introduced a way of customizing them.
 
So off to Geist I went. One prays NI will fix these issues one day. So NI didn't fully deliver for me sadly, they are too tied up in their own marketing to offer good support, and rarely if ever communicate in user forums... It's sad really because a lot of the problems they have wouldn't take many resources to fix.
 
/rant over 

I'm looking forward to Geist 2. The pics of the interface they've shared don't look too hot, I hope this is just a prototype without any bells or whistles because right now it looks like something hastily bodged together by a research scientist:
 

They've said it will be skinnable, but still, I have my hopes up that they're going to make it look a lot cooler than it looks now. The current Geist looks great but it's non-scalable and too small, at least this one is 100% resizeable. And just look at all them pads! 

bitflipper
My favorite is the two-channel, ten-step sequencer permanently attached to the ends of my arms.

Now I'm picturing the scenes in Tommy where Rodger Daultry and Elton John are competing as the Pinball wizard.
 
I'm picturing all 10 of your fingers hitting the side buttons like crazy and causing the flippers to go  mad on the pinball machine there Bit.

I hope Elton does not play with the silver balls.

you guys are all into sequencing, loop based arranging and electronic music? My favorite audio recording system is still Pro Tools HDX, stable, fast and reliable. And when it comes to editing I love the speed you can work within PT. But I must say that this is our studio setup, at home I work more with Sonar right now. Loop and Matrix based Song creation is something I never needed.