Reason vs Bitwig Studio

Synths, effects, and utilities can be modularly wired via audio and CV.

Reason may look intimidating at first, but it is just as easy to learn as any DAW, if not more so, yet has incredible depth once you delve deeper, with some options that are just not possible in other DAWs.

As of version 9.5, Reason now supports VSTs.

Very stable and fluid. Rarely crashes.

Reason's Audio Pitch Editor easily can hold its own to Melodyne Essentials. Makes editing vocals and other monophonic sound very easy.

You can go really deep into creating sound and routing. Find possibilities you cant do with any other DAW.

MIDI out is a new addition in Reason, allowing feedback to MIDI devices.

The multi fx are very nice. Great for transitions and complete sound management.

Reason's rack and mixer visually emulate real studio hardware through a skeuomorphic GUI/UX, allowing you to route audio cables and CV very intuitively. Hit "tab" on your computer keyboard, and you can see the rear of the rack, making routing very easy to understand.

Professionally produced tutorial videos often released by Propellerhead that show you how to use the software. Reason also has a thriving user base that offers video tutorials showing you how to do almost anything you need.

One of the best if not the best mixer on any daw.

Reason makes it easy to stretch audio or slice it up for glitchy sound effects. When audio is loaded, it is analyzed so slice markers can be placed at the beginning and end of each note. Slice markers appear when the audio sample is double clicked.

Is great for more ideas and creativity.

Can work with reason Rack in any Daw

Using clips makes it very easy to automate precisely.

Has one of the best and creative samplers among the DAWs and in the market. Like Mimic.

Great set of instruments and players and samplers included out of the box.

You can open and work multiple projects at the same time

Can display reason windows onn multiple screens

Mulitple high quality built in synthesisers, drum loops, samplers and effects with plenty of pre-built patches to explore plus the ability to create your own unique sounds.

REX files record effects and slices on top of the original file, and will play audio at the tempo of a project. REX files provide many uses and are a great addition to Reason.

Makes use of the Seaboard, Linnstrument, Continuum and other modern expressive controllers.

The easiest DAW to do automation in. All you have to do is press record and start moving knobs, and that's it.

The ability to run two sequencers at the same time, while swapping out sounds gives you great flexibility to complete a song.

This software has big, responsive, easy-to-handle controls that work really well on a touchscreen. Additionally, it has a tablet mode that re-organizes the UI to make it much simpler and perfect for smaller screen devices. This is both a mobile touchscreen app and a DAW at the same time! It even has a built-in keyboard/drumpad.

The Bitwig DAW runs on Mac, PC, and, Linux. This DAW also has the distinction of being one of the only DAWs that can run 32 bit and 64 bit plugins at the same time.

Being able to add multiple midi instruments on the same track is a nice feature. It allows for much easier setup for VSTs like Cthulhu. It's also nice to be able to have multiple instruments setup that can be toggled.

There is an instrument called Sampler which can correctly load sf2 instruments as a multisample preserving all individual sub sample settings and zoning. You do NOT need a VST to play soundfonts and you don't need to extract the sf2 samples! This is unique among all popular DAWs.

Create any style synth, wavetable, fm, analog, and fx in the grid.

Plugins can be sandboxed.