Everybody has his/her preferences. For example, I find the Reaper GUI performance wise so horrible (macos) that I never could use it as DAW. So I would give Reaper here a solid 0, in everything GUI related. On the other hand Bitwig surely lacks of common DAW features. But I like it concept-wise the most. The routing is super flexible and easy at once, even it gets very complex. Also I think that Bitwig has the best plugin hosting, very good MPE support and finally good performance, too. Also the sampler is very good. You have to combine a lot of simple units in Bitwig to get a result very often, so it is a bit hard to understand it. I actually find the Renoise mixer looking the world best, but the bitwig one is good, too. And I can place send channels into groups. So organisation is very easy. It has a lot of unique features, which are not mentioned at all in that comparison, since these are unique. Of course a lot mentioned in the test is also true. I hate the proprietary file format in Bitwig. Or I miss Renoise’s filters and also the EQ, since the Bitwig one is really half baked. Seems that no DAW ever will reach Renoise’s flexibility regarding scripting and exchange. They all have no idea about it (ok Reaper is an exception). You can code controller scripts though. Maybe you still can compare Bitwig a bit to Renoise. Also Renoise has powerful unique features, but might not compete with DAW including all those standard features. Here is an example of a unique feature of Bitwig, that’s why I love it: Have a look at the delay unit. You can place any kind of plugin into the feedback buffer, e.g. a stereo spreader/reducer, own filters, saturation or transient shaper. With such flexible power, you can quite easily create your own unique delay effect which also will sound better than anything else available (except Melda MXXX). The sky is the limit in Bitwig, so it is extremely easy to get distracted. Blablabla.
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