Cubase needs a bit more effort, but I've used it for nearly 30 years now so cannot change. The Kontakt MKII keyboards works really well with it on my system. The good thing with cubase is the three versions at different price points but all sharing most of the same systems. Artist and Pro are really good in terms of what they can do. There frankly aren't any bad ones now. The problem is finding the one that works for you. The snag is that I probably use 25% of Cubase pro. Another users might also use 25% of the features, but they will be totally different ones. Just editing a few notes can be very different. Some display things very differently than others so years back when I first used Cubase, I tended to edit on a score display - and that I did for ages until I swapped to editing on a normal edit screen with pitch vertical and time horizontal. Cubase Pro has a list edit - every event listed under the previous one, thousands sometimes, but that's still the best for some edit operations. If you record from start to finish, or copy and past and then edit - your needs are different. If you do EDM, you might hate one DAW and love another, and me, as somebody who never does EDM would hate using yours and love my own.
If you have the dosh - and the time. Download the trials and spend a solid day starting from scratch and seeing how far you get. Then repeat on any others you think you might like. Spend the same time on each one and the choice will become far easier.
