Mr, spokesman, san... Anyways yeah you right, but as I said, I don't believe there is the so called best program to use, what there is, is the ability to use your program effectively, hence like I agreed with trompie, the new FL is nice, but how well can one use it? Can you optimise it to its full potential? Likewise with reason, can you optimise it to its full potential? If yes then hip hip horray... So can some of us optimise FL, when we lace mixtapes can you tell who used a certain program, NO, my point exactly, different pots, same ingrients thus same food... Reason is good, don't get me wrong, but so is FL... I won't choose neither of the programs coz I myself I'm on both, as for FL being a slave it just goes because its that perticular technique of doing things, you can also link reason as a slave to cubase and also link FL to the same cubase and there two slaves, what you say bout that? Ma man, you can talk for your program, but trust me, personal opinion is all it comes down to, what works best for the individual.