Yeah, I do a lot of midi and mic stuff these days as it's ended up being faster in production to play than to UI tweak. I've found Reaper's "on the fly" for recording so much better (once learned and the brain clicks) and it's phenomenal score mapping/creation out of the box 😙👌
Just little things like being able to build macros for single key presses with a wireless keyboard behind the e-drums orplugged up guitar, it's so streamlined and fast.
But as far as effects go, if they're not coming from my hardware, I can load in whatever plugins I need. I've heard some older systems can struggle with VSTs in Linux, but never had an issue. Plus it only takes a single line and a minute to load in a low latency kernal, specifically for real-time processing of live controllers. No more fucking around with ASIO4ALL setups lol
But, yes, Abelton out of the box, much like FL, comes with better native stuff. However, I rarely use native these days as some brilliant nerd or production company out there has made better stuff I can just load in. The emphasis on the W in DAW is very proniunced with Reaper.
I have my own little conspiracy theory that Trump's lead up obsession with the black gold being more domestically drilled and churned had to do with disrupting the Middle East's supply to Europe on the back of Russia being sanctioned.
Other places in the world will be impacted, but not as much as Europe. He has also been pushing this whole narrative of "We don't need the EU. The EU needs us!" and what better way to initiate all that build up by throwing a match onto the Middle East, for reasons yet to be explained.
If I'm right, it's very important that the Middle East doesn't get baited into regional conflict. If that happens, the guy that started it will walk away, "We want to keep America safe. In the meantime, we're happy to sell our oil to Europe...for a price... Even though we got South America reserves now too..."
I think the failed leasing of reserves off Alaska is intentional too. It's letting the industry know it's there, despite expect ing no buyer for now.
Europe should've started dependency years earlier, but hindsight. No one would ever know this would happen just a few years ago.
Hopefull I'm wrong lol. Most conspiracy theories always are, by a lot.