Thanks.
I am sure Abelton is as stable as possible, why will try to use it on stage otherwise?
I am not a "pro" and I am not "loop music" oriented. Relatively expensive, restricted license DAW does not seems like the best choice in this case (and the reason I have started with Sonar).
I will look more at Max, but from what I have seen it is more to construct own synthes then to control the DAW. That (if I do, I do not so far) I prefer to simply write in a program, I am programmer.
As all such things, the ideas comes for NI LabVIEW (National Instruments, not Native Instruments
). I was working with it long time ago and was writing binary modules whenever possible. The concept definitively has own spirit, AZ Controller also was partially inspired by it.
On isotonikstudios I see "MIDI MultiClip Editor"... just for €35 I can see several clips in parallel in the PRV. That does not sound promising, that "basic" functionality I would like to see as build-in.
When Reaper will start crashing for me, I will probably change my mind. But so far I have not used "advanced" commands and it is not crashing.
Lets face it, Sonar was that most buggy program I have ever used in my live. During first several days with X1, with the same noob testing approach as I have now, it was crashing almost in everything I have tried. X3-Platinum is much better. I have learned how to avoid many crashes, I have many workarounds to avoid crashes triggered from Control Surfaces (most workarounds are still required). I mean I do not think Reaper is worse, at least not yet
I have tested Reaper several years ago and I was not convinced. I have not hit a single point to NOT to use it now. There was question about ARA... and just after several days of discussions, there is statement Reaper will have ARA. Note than there was a "plan B" for that, ARA and Reaper have APIs, so I could try to connect them myself (I have already started to look at that, till I saw a good news yesterday).
Can you describe what was crashing Reaper for you?
In linked post you can see the reason I in fact have no choice... Reaper is the ONLY DAW which satisfy my wishes.