Which is the best DAW for someone who lives in two places?

[whyterabbyt]

there's no getting around plugin licenses, even if your DAW itself is portable.

Yeah, that's the potentially more significant issue, to my mind. As well as my work copy of PT, Ive my own copies of Live, Tracktion and Bidule on my laptop there, but Ive stuck to serial-activation-only plugins.

Dropbox works well for project transfer, FWIW, so at least that bit is easy. If you're feeling a bit techie, learn to use junction points/symlinks cleverly if you want to make it completely transparent.

[dzilizzi]

This is actually the reason I liked iLok. I used to install everything on multiple computers but the iLok was all that moved.

Of course now I carry around a USB hub for all the different licensers.

Reason is the best one I've used as far as portability. It take little room and CPU. Runs on almost anything. I've got it on my Yoga and it is great for quick ideas. And since it runs inside other DAWs, it is easy to move stuff into another DAW for more complicated stuff.