I started making beats with FL, then Reason and now Im using Cubase sx3...
I was fed up of the quality of Reason's sound engine and of Rewiring stuff to Cubase...So I decided to do everything In Cubase and never looked back..
Mixing in Reason and FL was giving me headaches, but now with SX3 I can acheive better sounding mixes and also my workflow got easier..
And with all the Audio editing and Audio quantize/warp functions, you have a powerful DAW that excels in MIDI and Audio manipulation.
The only thing that made Cubase crash on me was VSTi plugins that werent updated correctly....
I have a feeling my problem should be RAM related and not from cubase...
"Cubase 4" with the multiple CPU cores updates should be dope on a quad-core machine!!!!