John

I am looking for a new Sequencer for my PC that doesn't cost too much
but is capable of doing real-time time-stretching (RTTS). What should
I go for? I will have about £250 to spend.

At the moment I have Cubasis VST 3 which didn't cost very much, only
about £100 if I remember rightly.

Unfortunately it isn't very good for me as it doesn't do the RTTS that
I need. So when I am composing a track in the program and I need to
change the speed of it or stretch just one track, it makes a mess of
it and it all gets out of sequence to the rest of the composition.

I guess I am after something that is easy to use and gives you a
decent amount of audio and midi tracks. I am not bothered about
staying with a Steinberg product I will consider anything that is good
and does what I want.

I have been looking on the Steinberg website though at the products
currently available.

I'm not sure what the difference is between the SL and the SX version
of Cubase? One the site it says one has 50 new features whereas the
other has 70. It doesn't seem to list what they are or has comparison
functionality on the site. I think perhaps something like the SL
version would do for me.

Perhaps I wouldn't need any advanced features of the premium product?
I do know though that the SE version would probably be similar to what
I've got already so would want to avoid that.

If anyone can recommend me any good sequencers to consider besides the
Cubase range I'd appreciate it. If you can also tell me the difference
between SL and SX versions of Cubase I'd be interested to know that as
well.

A lot of people seem to recommend Cubase SX or Ableton Live. I
wouldn't be able to afford the SX version of Cubase though as its
£500, but would be able to afford Cubase SL or Ableton Live v5. What
would you go for between these two? I think they are just below £250
in price these.

And I just wondered if anybody would recommend anything else like Acid
Pro 6, Sonar 4, Reason or any of the Logic products?

Cheers

John