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Recently i started working with a new studio that doesn't have Cubase (which i am familiar with). They use pc, so logic is not an option. Apart from them, they have most other major daws (they do a lot of studio recording mostly) like ableton live, reaper, fl studio, bitwig, studio one and others.
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But no cubase I'm having a hard time deciding which daw to learn again. I want to have the best flexibility to edit midi with my libraries to make them sound as much as realistic as possible at their studio.
I write everything in sibelius. I just want to be able to make my sound as close as possible to a real orchestra (not 'trailer-epic-style' orchestra) (I have access to good orchestral libraries like berlin and ewql, etc). Of those, Studio One is going to probably be the closest to Cubase in terms of user interface and workflow. Do they not have Sibelius either? If you're exporting a MIDI file from Siblieus into some DAW, and don't have to do a lot of note editing, and just want to do more controller editing and real-time changes, REAPER would probably actually be the best bet - assuming of course the sample library you want to use works with it (should, REAPER supports all common formats).
REAPER is rather counter-intuitive as a DAW - it's kind of non-standard and coming from other DAWs you'd probably find it puzzling - but possibly no worse than Ableton Live. But it sort of 'gets the job done without a lot of crap in the way'! REAPER is only $60 - you can download it and try it free for 60 days, then if you want to buy it after that point you can. For $60, it's really top-notch.
Some pros have started using it for mastering. I have tried to 'compose' with it doing 'MIDI Sequencing' and I found it inadequate for what I want to do, but to 'tidy up' a MIDI file generated from Sibelius, or any other kind of post-production work, it's cheap, no frills, and gets the job done. I'd probably go with Reaper. Especially if you want to try a copy on your own computer and maybe ultimately buy it.
There are even skins and layouts for Reaper that make it look like and operate somewhat like Cubase. I had a student who used Studio 1 and when he took my class with Cubase about half way through the semester he goes 'I'm buying Cubase, you're right, it is better'. At least for what he was doing (kind of Electronica/EDM inspired pop music without all the EDM cliches).
Digital Performer is supposed to be really good - on the level of Cubase and Logic. I just haven't used it in many many years.
One of the features a lot of people love was the way it handled 'chunks' but I believe Cubase adopted that a couple versions back and Reaper emulates it too. Since you're coming from what I assume is a pre-composed score and you don't have to do much MIDI composition in the DAW, aside from any additional instruments you would get with a copy of DP, I can't see any real plus to having it instead of Cubase or Logic, or, as we're talking about, Reaper.