MadGav wrote:DAW stuff I need to consider:
- Ease of use with CV output plugins, being able to set a mono channel to no panning so 0dB meant 0dB would be handy
- Easy to use drum sampler (Ultrabeat...not!), the S1 one is nice, Reaper would need a plugin and nothing cheap/free which suits on OS X?
Reaper doesn't have mono tracks per se, but you can set the routing pins in your CV out plugin so that only one channel is used...
About sampler, check out TX16Wx which is free... and very capable. It's not a drum sampler, it's a sampler (and it can actually sample).