Oh yeah, I forgot about Reaper, which is dumb of me seeing as though I used it a couple of times during my studies. I'll definitely give the demo of that a proper go. And I know Pro Tools is the industry standard big daddy when it comes to all things recording/mixing/ect. I always strayed away from it because I heard nothing but people telling me it was hard to use. I didn't know there was a free version to play around in however, so I'll check that. Ha! I agree with you assessment of Logic. I never let it use any of its own project templates or channel configurations because, like you say, it's the express lane to getting a whole load of crap flying on to the channel. I mostly just used the blank template or one I created myself with some pre-configured instrument and effect busses. I'll definitely miss its bundled plugins though if I do switch. Especially as Logic X has Alchemy now. Oh well, maybe I'll buy Omnisphere 2. Thanks for the input!