I'm really happy with Sonar X3, I got the barebnes version for $50 and use Fabfilter & Waves and some of my free Soundtoys plugins. Waves and Soundtoys have gone iLok free so you just login and authorize your computer for Soundtoys and Waves you can use any USB stick you have laying around. That's a good thing for me because I lost my iLok. Tons of plugin sales right now, btw.
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