I experienced a good example of this recently when trying to decide between Bitwig and an upgrade of Ableton Live Lite to Suite. Suite comes with a full-featur

I experienced a good example of this recently when trying to decide between Bitwig and an upgrade of Ableton Live Lite to Suite. Suite comes with a full-featured audio programming environment called Max for Live. It has some high level devices for common functions, but you can go very low level and make just about anything. The building blocks are all very simple and basic: oscillators, math functions, routing, etc. Bitwig's Grid takes a different approach with a small number of powerful building blocks. The range of possibilities is smaller, but you can be more productive if the thing you want to make is composable from the available devices.