You gotta go with what makes(and keeps) you happy.Beagle wrote: I felt like I got more for my money AND SHS4 didn't hog my CPU.
For me, it's been MTS...
I've been using it for over three years now - completely trouble-free. I bought the ProPlus version when it was $99 and have paid $60 for 2 upgrades since(I'll pay the $40 for the newest upgrade as soon as I have time to get back to my projects). Some may feel the continuing upgrade cost is a bit excessive, but I've found the upgrades to always be excellent additions and rock-stabile as the program itself.
Continued joy and confidence of use are priceless to me in this instance. Now my car, well that's a different story.
I just checked the last project I was working on. I have 20 tracks, 46 plugins/effects, lots of automation and am peaking at 47% CPU usage on a 3 1/2 year-old P4 based PC. Man, I need to get back to my music.The demo was running at a very high CPU usage (40%, if I remeber correctly) even tho I hadn't added any FX or plugins yet.
You gotta go with what makes(and keeps) you happy.