[fxj]

I was ditching NI, ableton, logic and cubase when I discovered reaper and the free plugins from KVR. There is a vivid community about the DAW and many plugin designers of free and open source plugins use it for development. KVR does a developer contest every other year and many brilliant plugins came out of that.

If you even want to get rid of MS windows or MacOS, then reaper is the right tool for the job. Together with the zynthian synths you have a (semi) open source production environment.

I think the problem is that many electronic musicians these days do not have the knowledge how to program a synth. They just use the pre-canned sounds that come with NI.