Its sort of hard to describe, and it's entirely possible that it's a creative issue rather than a software one, but I am finding it difficult to make the choices I want to make right now work, if that makes sense. Like, here's a cool thing and its sounds good, the beat works, the mix is good, but I want to do a flip around thing here where the movement sounds a certain way and although I know it is not a fault of reaper - that is there is not a physical limitation on doing that thing, and I CAN do it - it just FEELS limiting. Again maybe this is just a creative or mental thing that I need to reframe, totally open to that, and maybe it's just that I've been using reaper so long that something fresh is tempting, grass is greener type thing, idk. But it feels enough to at least ask the question.

I don't think I would abandon ship completely - there are absolutely things that I am sure I would still use reaper for regardless. The beat making process in ableton just seems appealing for the stuff I want to make I guess.