EnochLight wrote: ↑06 Apr 2018
Fun fact: as lean as Reaper is, I've never found it
inspiring. At. All.
This really is the key, and it's why I always feel like all of the "Reason is the wrong DAW for you if you have a heavily VST-intensive workflow/are mainly doing non-electronic tracks/etc." naysayers are just totally missing the point.
The best DAW is whatever DAW you enjoy using the most, period.
I make lots of music for which Reason is the "wrong DAW" according to people in this thread and elsewhere. But guess what? When I fire up other DAWs, even if they're logically better suited to the project at hand, I simply don't feel as comfortable in them as I do in Reason. There's something about the rack that just feels like the audio production equivalent of throwing on a delightful pair of fuzzy slippers and a bathrobe and kicking back in a favorite armchair.
Nothing feels too much like
work in Reason, even when it's technically
more work than it would be in other DAWs. I do my best work when I can feel like I'm at play. I find the stark, businesslike list- and menu-driven UIs of other DAWs excruciatingly stifling. So, that's what Reason does for me, and I strongly suspect I'm in good company. I don't know why some people have so much trouble understanding that, or why so many people cling to this idea that there's no point in using Reason unless you explicitly require all of its modulation and routing flexibility.