Thoughts on FL vs. Bitwig or integrating the two?

[SoundGoddess]

When I first started taking music more seriously, I begin with FL Studio because of the lifetime free updates. I had never really used a professional DAW before and being so new to music I found it really overwhelming to work with. I ended up switching to Reaper because it was affordable and the one track per lane thing made more logical sense to me. But then Bitwig came out and was super intuitive for me and really got out of my way to give me the workflow I needed to actually produce stuff.

But now my skills have been honed with 3 years of Bitwig and I am getting more into Kontakt Libraries and EWQL Composer Cloud and looking more into Orchestrial type stuff. I also am planning on dropping money to get Komplete sometime this year. It seems like FL may be better suited to this kind of music making.

So I am just wondering if anyone with experience in both platforms has some insights. I am thinking it is probably worthwhile to actually learn FL now that I am more experienced at production, but I really love Bitwig.

I understand that there is a way to run FL as a VST plugin, so I am wondering if there is a way for me to perhaps use FL's piano roll to easily export clips into Bitwig like what I do when I use Maschine in Bitwig? Will they play nice together? Or should bite the bullet and actually learn FL again and then just alternate between the two depending on the project I am doing. One advantage to learning FL would be that it would open me up to more collaboration, and it integrates well with Splice.

I'm not looking to start a DAW war thread; I have the luxury of being able to use one or the other or both. I am more interested in the right tool for the right job sort of thing and getting the best workflow I can. (I have become aware that some industry professionals use Live to arrange and Pro Tools to master, for example)

I also have Reaper 5 but I think that the strength of that DAW lies more in recording multiple takes of live instruments/vocals. Which is not an area of focus for me at the moment.

[sjm]

I don't have Bitwig, but using FL as a VST is pretty easy. You can also use Rewire to sync it up with another host. I haven't had much need to do this myself though, but it does work.

[starflakeprj]

Short answer. Bitwig doesn't have Rewire, so FL Studio as a VST inside Bitwig is the only option.

[SoundGoddess]

Ok, I will experiment a bit with FL as a VST and see if that will help me with orchestration workflow Really if I can just borrow FL's piano roll and record from that into Bitwig's audio arranger and use BW for mixing that would probably be the best of both worlds for my purposes now.