Cubase, logic or ableton?

[RDR]

The difference in sound engines is pure placebo effect.

There is no difference with the 32bit and above floating point internal calculation on all DAW`s when rendering to 24 bit

100% agree

APART from... fruityloops rendering code renders wavs that do NOT sound the same as they do when playing them in fruity,

the advantage ableton has is its ease of use and the editing functions (you can do almost anything to you midi or wav clip

ALMOST anything. Ableton does not feature inplace audio editing with 3rd party VST or internal plugins plus a load of other stuff.

Its still only cubase that allows this, and its such a very expressive feature.

Can i put a vote in for Pro-Tools 8? The virtual instruments it comes with are just quality.

I love that program, the work flows for band recording are tremendous.