Nothing beats the fun and especially when it works for you.
What dropped my jaws was this-
Trilian It is expensive and I believe it's really great for a keyboardist but
even with midi guitar it's most excellent.
If you ever go for the best I believe you'd end up with Trilian...or any of the Spectrasonics
works.
They also have great support, video lessons and once you own- the updates additional improvements cost
you nothing...you not only end up with amazing works but a software company that doesn't try
to "trap" you into paying every time you turn around. After you own any of their offerings it doesn't
take long to realize that the purchase price wasn't bad at all.
Now nothing beats playing/recording my Geddy Lee but when I do use midi...I don't know of anything
that comes close to Spectrasonics....well...those cats in Boston sure made a statement with X3 Producer, no doubt.
Now if Gibson would get all their electronic BS goals directed from screwing up guitars at having their own unit like the Axe FX 2 to integrate with Sonar...well...PT knew the value of that but dropped the ball. Oh well, just my 2 if that.