So, I have been jumping between several illicit DAWs for the past few years not really vibing with anything. Then I got renoise cause I love how you sequence things in it but now I want to record things. The software I used the longest (and first) was FL studio because that was the most accessible to pirate so I just stuck with it and it was ok doing sequencing and it recorded audio I guess. Later I started fucking with the demo version of Live, which I dug but Ableton's way of packaging their software really grinds on me since I dont want to buy 40000 handclaps just to get a fully-featured software. I have also used Logic for a bit but only for recording, I never even learned how to make a midi track in it.
I have a kinda tough time navigating what daws are good I feel they mostly are either catered towards electronic production or just capturing audio. A few times I have just copy pasted drums in audacity just because I have not wanted to bother with real daws.
So, yeah; is there any DAW that just works well for both recording and sequencing that doesn't require thousands of dollars worth of hardware? I have contemplated some rewire routing but I really dont like having to mess with two diferent softwares with two seperate grids yada yada