jkuehlin
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The amount of control (or sometimes more necessary is the ability to 'fine' tune things within a track) is what sets the full version apart.
Jimmy, I think you're on to something here. I know you were commenting on Melodyne, but you could easily apply this line of reasoning to a DAW as a whole when picking one.
So the first question I would ask if the extended feature set in an Autotuner or a DAW (either one) matters if you can't see yourself using the features in the immediate future, but wouldn't rule out using them eventually. With an Autotuner you may be able to upgrade it later, but with the full version of a DAW you just have to find workarounds. And if the inconvenience of lacking the features starts to get in your way you then have to make a decision to tolerate it or re-learn a different DAW. So there's an important question to be answered on weather someone should evaluate any software purchase based on a full or partial feature set, and weather they would really miss the absent features in the partial set.
Also, the amount of control is a big deal to me in a DAW, but they all give you more/less control over different things. And then some give you the same amount of control (say over parameters of an audio clip in a track) but in a very inconvenient way. I would say asking 'how does this DAW fine tune things' would tell someone a lot about if certain programs are a better fit for them.