Best Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs)

Fruity Loops Studio is probably gonna be your best bet in the Digital Audio Workstation zone, if you are looking for a good, advanced yet simple one. I have used Fruity Loops since version 7, and it is very user-friendly, a good looking interface, easy and advanced at the same time type of Digital Audio Workstation you will ever have, now comparing this to Ableton, it's only what you can do better with either the two. But for my side, It's probably the best, and includes FREE lifetime updates, Performance abilities, several VST plugins that come along with it, and way too much more and more up with it. It is the best Digital Audio Workstation you can get.

NO MATTER WHAT, People will always disagree. If you like using a specific DAW, that is all that matters.

I have Pro Tools. I've used PT for 4 years now. However I've used FL for about 8-9 years, since version 6. There's a few things I much prefer in PT, but for my compositions and own song writing, its FL any day of the week.

PT I use to compose for films, or to record and produce other bands.

Given the option (please bear in mind this is my opinion and everyone is different so don't be elitist, you're no better than anyone else for using a specific DAW) I would use Fruity Loops Studio.

Pros: Piano roll, editing interface, fast approach to the tools & plugins, very userfriendly... specially is great that you don't have to see all that stuff and functionality of it, when you want to work to a specified project, rather that be a mixing, mastering, building patterns or songs...

Cons:Sometimes crashes, the active plugin or vst does not get off the function when you select the other one... Some shortcuts would help (that means you need a great mouse and I don't like that... )

I have been using FL studio since its was 3 I.e. FL 3. I am a music producer. When my clients ask the files to be exported in cubase, pro tools, logic, live or any other programs then I just simply render my FL Studio tracks in wav or desired form and send them. They say it sounds great and I have repeat customers more often. Also, he who says the FL a simple DAW have never tasted it. My desperate suggestion to the imageline.com is that please change the name of FL studio and the dispute is all over. You can name is IL Studio I.e. ImageLine Studio...etc...

I've used so many different DAWs over the years, with each having their various problems. Live is the only one that actually is able to keep up with my compositional pace. It's very intuitive to use, and unlike so many others that feel like they were written by coders, Live was something which came out of the Basic Channel/Chain Reaction stable of artists...meaning, it was created by musicians, and it shows! In its full Suite version with Max for Live, you have the feeling that you've tapped into raw sonic power with Live, and that if you can think of a musical idea, it can deal with it admirably. Having literally ridden the whole arc of digital workstation development from Studer Editech Dyaxis to the present day, trust me, this DAW is truly the pot of gold at the end of a very long developmental rainbow.

Well, I am not pro-ableton! Have tried it time & again...Poor plugin scanning, good luck getting through it if you have a lot of plugs...I have spent hours to days scanning plugs because it resets itself upon plugin failure & you start from zero again.
The stretching & morphing abilities are great but MIDI is poor because it never started out as MIDI. MIDI was added in like version 3 or 4. I don't see anything about the session view to go gaga over, many other DAWs have similar features (Project5, Renoise, etc). Many say their creativity has been unleashed with Ableton, but when I hear what they've done in it...well, you could've done that in anything else. Not the most impressive.
Ableton would be a great plugin, both thumbs down as a DAW.

Intuitive, with such a culture of musicians, this is not like other DAW's which cater almost exclusively for technoheads, and trance-iots, but for all genre's. I have tried fl Studio, and its drum set up is fantastic, and reason, which has the easiest piano roll. I do think they are both features Ableton could profit from.

But what Ableton is doing is ground breaking, for instance audio to midi, you hum into a Mic, and Ableton can convert the hum sequence to midi. Live has given me so much more than any other music software.

I paid full price for 8, was given a free upgrade to 9, and then upgraded to suite. Convolution reverb alone makes it worth every penny
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I used to sequence on Kord wokstations like 20 years ago, so just for reference, that's where I'm coming from. I produced a bunch but haven't been in that world in a while.

Finding my way back has been interesting because now, it's all about DAWs. So I downloaded 5 installer with a plan to test each for at least 48 hours. I started with Reaper (cheapest), then FL Studio (most popular), then Ableton Live (most recommended), and the plan was to then test Pro Tools (most proffesional) and finish with Reason (most flexible/customizable).

Well, let's just say the search ended (for now at least) at #3 - Ableton Live! Why? It synced up with my midi controller (a very dated Oxygen 61 - silver) very easily, and with ASIO4All loaded, the latency was perfectly dealt with (I had some trouble doing that with FL) since I don't have an audio interface. Yet.

What topped it, for me, was the tutorial videos that are very well done and easy to navigate from video to video, series to ...more

I have used StageLight since it first hit the market. I can say hands down that this is the best software available right now and for the price it's an amazing deal. If you can find a more complete DAW with a more intuitive UI then I'll buy it for you! StageLight is my new standard and preferred product of choice. You can't go wrong with it!

Pretty amazing even without considering price. Finally an app for people with touch screens. Absolute freedom from using a mouse which is impressive. But taking price into consideration, amazing software. I guess the idea is to sell sounds and features in app for making money? Sort of like games. I like it.

Stagelight can run my vst instruments and has great plug-ins like the electrosynth. It has tons of great free loops and the drum programming is sic! Every update comes with more cool stuff like the glitch6 effect which has been something I've been looking for and haven't seen in other DAWs.

Best product ever so glad I got it! It has completely changed the way I produce music! It is so easy to use plus in my price range! I'd highly recommend this product to all my friends and anyone who wants to create music easily!

The layout being similar to old-school analogue interfaces is a great nostalgia trip for veteran audio engineers, but that's not all this DAW has to offer. Simply put, Pro Tools is a piece of software for audio engineers, rather than artists. While Ableton and FL are good for composition, and Ableton shines at live performance, for recording, mixing and mastering audio, Pro Tools is simply the best option on the market.

I am a composer and producer and I have had the opportunity to work with more than 5 DAW's, and I think Cubase has all the tools you need to compose, produce, mix and master music, in my opinion is the best profesional DAW in the marker.

Probably the most powerful DAW and very customizable making a tidy easy to navigate interface.
Loops and instruments are not as comprehensive as Logic studio, but it's just slicker and the updates are very regular.

Cubase is probably the strongest jack of all trades in terms of DAWs, specialising in MIDI.

Organised workflow, most powerful and better audio engine. More stable and midi editing is superior to others.

Although this is more of a production tool than a full DAW, it's the best on the market for those who want ultimate freedom to tailor sounds.
Where it excels is the real-feel workflow and profoundly versatile instruments:

1. If there's a sound in your head, you can make it a reality with without compromising on account of limited functionality. The instruments have overlapping but unique functions, and can accommodate ANY type of music creation.

2. You don't have 8 levels of windows to control the sound on one channel, it's all modular - so productivity stays high, the workspace clean, and everything is easy to monitor.

3. Routing audio and MIDI paths is almost mindlessly simple, like plugging into a sound board.

It's as if this DAW is a physical piece of equipment, it's a much more organic experience and can really change the way you produce.

It's just so darn pretty. I own Ableton and use it sparingly because I can't stand it's bland interface. Pressing tab and connecting cables on the back of the rack gives me warm fuzziness. Sometimes you have to work slightly harder to build your own effect, but the amazing modularity of Reason makes it powerful and rewarding to get to grips with. The REs can be CPU hogs sometimes, but that's about the only bad thing I have to say.

Extremely versatile DAW, gives advanced users the ability to create new original sounds and instruments that have never been heard before, though it takes a reasonable amount of technical understanding and a large amount of time. CPU load is among the best in the industry and it DOES NOT CRASH, EVER. From a production perspective its definitely my favorite though there are a few things that could be improved.

In my opinion (having used several DAW's) Reason manages to find the best balance between fun and inspiring workflow and in depth versatility. I rarely leave the environment. Especially since Midi hardware integration was added (in a brilliant way) since version 7. Oh and... I confirm.. Never crashes!. My premier wish for future developments would be to lay a broader focus on ways for use as part of live performance.

Best DAW I have ever used, it has a good interface and good plug ins, also good 3rd party plugins making it an overall really good DAW to use a professional studio or home studio, you can make some very good beats and record some amazing vocals there's no other DAW I would want to use ever! In my opinion it is better than pro tools which is deemed as the best DAW out there.

As pro user of Ableton, Logic, Protools, FruityLoops and Cubase I can say only one thing... LOGIC rocks! The best allrounder for all business in music, film etc... The best in app plugins, dynamics, reverbs modulation packet... Great.. Cubase have better algorhytms for stretch and pitch but this is the thing that you can always do third party... The only thing I don't like is that is not PC version since V5.5 Platinum... Bastards... Definitely I don't like Apple hardware but software is great...

Great set of sounds, effects, and workflow. Wonderful integration with premium VSTs from third parties. The new Drummers is a gas, particularly when you add a muted rhythm track for it to follow �" Wow! I've not tried them all but I've never had the need once I tried Logic. If only it had a full featured scoring program to write music on a staff and have it directly realized and editable on the piano roll and other editing methods.

Took me a bit to get use to the way things are done in Logic since I had used Pro Tools exclusively for about 10 years. (and the fact that I didn't even look at the manual :P) Once I got the hang of the way Logic worked it was very simple to make it do what I wanted.

Pro all the way! They invented the computer DAW as we know it! That says it all. Right now they already have cuabse 6 out and it includes a lot of features that are found in the Nuendo series and it's to me the best production software one could ever use. I have used it for 7-8 years now and I still haven't maxed it out! You can do any genre of music on it with ease: rock, hip-hop, dance, electronica, movie scoring, you name it...!

For over a decade of production and mastering through various DAWs, I always fall back to Cubase to get the job done. Rewires seamlessly with Reason and Live, endless MIDI routing and compatible VST plugins, and most of all INCREDIBLY well organized. This is genuinely the Swiss army knife of audio production and engineering.

Editing midi is so easy. To change editing tools all you have to do is hold down the right mouse button. It makes editing midi super fast. Cubase comes with some of the best vst plugins from Steinberg. You won't have to add much to have a full arsenal.

The latest version is 7, with more functionality than anything else on the market. Many other DAWs rely on plugin technology to enhance the value of the software - Cubase simply has extensive capabilities embedded.

I like Adobe Audition for its Amplitude Analysis so I use it for Mastering. Combined with a plug in like Izotope
Ozone it cannot be beaten when it comes to mastering. Use any of the other DAWs on the market - they
are all good and there is very little to separate them for doing your recording and mixing. But then do
yourself a favor and transfer your mixdown to Adobe Audition for the Mastering stage. You won't be
sorry.

I cannot find fault with it. Editing is its strong point. All the way from surround sound to spectral analysis. Not heavy on CPU usage. Multitrack functionality is good. Red book CD burning options are fantastic. Will use any plug in you can throw at it. Will use any hardware interface you can mention. I cannot find fault with it.

A light DAW with amazing editing capabilities. CS6 works easily. If you want something easier, try Mixcraft, but the interface of the program is very intuitive considering I'm not very knowledgeable with DAWs.

Tried everything... Always come back to A.A. ;prefer 1.5/v.6 then 3.0. Workflow incomparable, accepts all plug-ins... Great editing and multi-channel. Least "in-your-face" DAW.
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If ONLY Cakewalk would hire the people to write the code for MAC, it is the right time to do so as they both use the same CPU's now. I think if this was done that Cakewalk SONAR would open up a lot of eyes and take the music world by storm. The DAW itself is frightfully able in all things music, it lacks just a bit, or maybe a bit more than that in the video area, but when it comes to music and ingenuity it rules, and NOTHING sounds better. It has as good a sound engine as Sequoia or Nuendo. I wish Cakewalk would let it out of it's PC cage and let it fly. Even though I am a diehard PC user, they really do need to make it Apple Compatible.

Simple and powerful. From the very first Cakewalk I used in 1990, MS-DOS to Pro Audio 9 for Windows to Sonar 2,4, 5 and 6, it never failed.

Simple - hit arm record for track(s), hit record button, and play audio or MIDI instrument. No glitches.
Powerful - all the stuff you need. It's like just having a Tascam 4-track, only this time you get unlimited tracks and MIDI, too! And bundled FX!

Simple, powerful, stable, and efficient. No frills.

SONAR X3 Producer is a beast. It can do a lot of stuff but it is very hard to navigate and get to where you are ready to record. And troubleshooting a problem can be a nightmare especially if you have a client standing over you. Just the simple changing of one I/O to another requires "unchecking" dozens of boxes and rechecking others.
With that said, this is still has premium sound quality and is well worth the headache for the final results, especially if you are a PC based studio with lots of $$ in VST's.

I own Platinum, but also I own DP 9.03, PT12.5 (which is really no different than the last few versions), Reaper, nTrack, Ableton and Reason, I use PCIe and also Focusrite thunderbolt interfaces. All of them are usable, DP and PT for the 1st timers can be a bit more of a learning curve than Sonar, but the others (including Cusebase, and Studio 1) are functionally similar, however - none of them touch Sonar Platinum as a package or DAW in my humble opinion and what you get for the money speaks for itself. Just the price of TH3, Melodyne 4, Nomad's Blue Tube Suite, and Addictive Drums Producer (not including everything else you get and the rolling updates) far exceed the cost of the DAW and it comes with them for free. While I agree that the lack of a mac port is holding this back, the idea that anything works better or worse because of an operating system is ridiculous, uninformed and hasn't a clue how operating systems works.. the mac thing is a religion, same processors, same ram, ...more

Considered by many to be in the top four. More popular in the UK and Western European markets. Starts at affordable less expensive versions to a major player, Sequoia, which is full blown pro but rather costly. Fairly intuitive and similar to others, you go from laying and editing tracks, to mixdown, to burning CD, publishing and exporting.
Compatable with VST's and Mackie/HUI, M-Audio, Berhinger etc. controllers. Plenty of add-ons and effects. Newer versions come with 128 tracks and multiple simultaneous recording track inputs, depending on sound card, interface etc. Works on ASIO straight forward base. Not so popular in US retail music stores because of the low cost and profit factor. Samplitude/Magix has been around for a very long time. They seem to know what they are doing. It seems to me that the only limitations of this software is your own computer and hardware. As with any DAW, setting up all of your hardware, keyboards, sound cards, controllers, digital to audio ...more

To be quite frank, in the day and age we live in, its all subjective. I for one think that in terms of audio editing Samplitude/Sequoia is second to none. Mastering Samplitude kills it hands down. Midi is well developed for the genre I'm doing, I started with FL Studio, then moved to Reason, at one point I was making beats on Reason and Recording in Samplitude. But today I use Samplitude for Beat Making, Recording, Editing, Mixing, Mastering and CD Authoring.

I have been working with this DAW for many years. I have to say, that I do not have a good comparison with an other DAW. But there was nothing I could not do with this DAW. It is super simple for newcomers and has a lot of features. And once you get used to it, you do not want anything else.

I have been using this DAW for over 15 years now also used to work with logic and with ableton live. Once you experienced its level of professional mixing and editing, I'm- and export features and mastering skills, these simply is nothing like it. Period.

Started using this when I had the demo version for free, but paid the license fee because it was so good and easy to use. Having said that it is easy to use, don't underestimate how complex and comprehensive its features are. I am still learning more and more about it and finding new features the more I use it (about 3 years now).

I did also try some other DAWs when I first tried out Reaper, but mostly they just didn't have the features I needed or were very un-intuitive or were outrageously expensive. I could not find a better product in terms of quality and value for money.

If you want to digitally record multi-track multi-instrument music in a professional and quality manner with initial ease of use backed up by a range of sophisticated features, I can't imagine there is a much better product out there than Reaper.

REAPER just works, solid/stable, best business model/cheapest, looks best/skinable, small footprint, most updated DAW ever, best support, great to rewire with FL Studio, Ableton Live, Reason etc... Most underrated likely because of its price. So funny how ignorant & set in there ways & easily lead by commercial advertising so many people are who think they are 'in the know' esp. When it comes to Pro tools, it really is a clear case of the blind leading the blind :P

I Totally Agree...Super Affordable, Lightning Fast, Extremely Low CPU Usage, Fully Customizable, Ultra Flexible Routing, Solid Stability, Very Good Business Model, Developers are within Reach, Regular Updates & Fixes based on Users' Feedback...It's got everything I need and so much more. Just give it a try, you won't regret it.

Low priced and full of features that the other big household names have and then some. I've been using Reaper for the last three years and I'm still discovering new features that I didn't know existed. It's simply the best!

If you want to play with the big boys, you've got to have the same toys, in professional music, it means shelling out big bucks for a Pro Tools System. Pro Tools is currently the industry standard tool used in countless popular contemporary recordings and music productions. And many will argue that Pro Tools is the best. Pro Tools has an intuitive interface that makes it suitable for amateurs and new comers, while at the same time it provides great depth and power for industry professionals. The downside however is its price and its limited compatibility and high hardware requirements. Still, if you want to have the best music production software that money can buy, you better check out Pro Tools and the range of products they offer.

Pro Tools is truely stunning! It is top of the line in all aspects of audio recording, music production, mixing and mastering, and so much more. However, Pro Tools (as you may be able to discern by the name) is directed more toward Professional musicians/producers. It is used by studios and big-name producers all around the world. However, though Pro Tools is mainly designed for professionals, it has an intuitive interface that makes it suitable for amateurs and new comers, while at the same time provides great depth and power for industry professionals.

When I discovered Pro Tools, my only previous experience with DAWs was with Garage Band, so you can imagine the overwhelming confusion that came with trying to learn how to use one of the most professional DAWs on the market after having such an amateur background.

I am by no means a professional producer/artist, but I would highly recommend Pro Tools to both Professionals and amateurs, providing that they already have ...more

Avid's Pro Tools can only be described as amazing! Among laymen, Pro Tools has practically become a byword for the whole process of recording a piece of music on a computer, which says something about its strength as a brand and ubiquity in studios.

Make no mistake: this is still the professionals' choice, and now that the 'proper' (as opposed to LE) Pro Tools software can finally be run on a PC or Mac without the need for any external hardware, it's become a much more viable option for the home musician. Pro Tools is gradually becoming a more 'open' DAW, too, with version 10 supporting more file formats.

I give Pro Tools a 10/10.

I am writing/producing a track for my daughter's music video that we will be shooting in a few months. I have a MIDI keyboard synthesizer expert with drum and guitar experience. I need a professional level DAW that I could use so that I could transfer the digital files to a professional mastering studio. The pro mastering studioes ask for 24-bit wav or aif as a preferred format. Mastering is needed to ensure compatibility with video production, iTunes, and hi-res MP3 format release. Protools is what the professionals in Hollywood use. When I told the production company I would provide them a track on ProTools, they said that was no problem and decreased my production charge by about $1500 (since I was writing the song and providing it to them in a format that they could easily use and work with).

I've tried many DAW's, Ableton, Cakewalk, Magix etc. I gave up on them, and the money I spent. There is only one, that is user friendly, and that's Mixcraft! I recently looked at a "top ten" list of DAW's. The writer explained that it's normal to take a couple of days to get problems worked out and be ready to use the DAW's on the list. Which makes sense, since Mixcraft wasn't on the list. I guarantee you, install Mixcraft, and you'll be creating songs, instead of "getting all the problems" ironed out. There are no problems. Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio comes with Melodyne Essentials. Very Nice!

Mixcraft 7 is, in my opinion, the best DAW out there today. It comes with thousands of loops, an excellent bunch of VSTs (Journeys, Acoustica Studio Drums, VB3 Organ, Impulse, etc) and effects (Acoustica effects and Classic effects, better than you'd think) for a really low price compared to other, more popular choices that come with less. It's EXTREMELY easy to use as well, I have never watched one tutorial in my life for this and in less than a year I know almost every feature available. The piano roll is always out there when editing a VST track (unlike a certain other DAW I know of), and to top it all off, it fully supports almost anything you can think of.

Mixcraft 6 is an awesome DAW, especially for using a MIDI controller to compose most of a song. I have Ableton live and it can't touch the midi power of Mixcraft. In fact, Ableton barely works with a virtual instrument without the CRASH or poping and hissing. Mixcraft is something anybody can it the ground running with and is very stable. I'm using windows 7 with a dell laptop and FireWire express card and it is seamless. Appleton, not so seamless. How do they sell mixcraft so cheap? It is amazing! It is the best kept secret of all DAW's

Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio features and workflow are powerful and seamless. Surprised that a DAW can have such professional video-editing capabilities. The Performance Panel for real-time live loop triggering was totally rad! Comes with over 7800 awesome multi-genre loops and samples. Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio includes 22 virtual instruments and 57 effects, including professional mastering plug-ins and world-class instruments by Izotope, Celemony, ToneBoosters, Studio Devil, Applied Acoustics, BeatRig, QuikQuak, G-Sonique, 123 Creative, and so much more. One-click publishing (MP3, MP4, most all file formats) of audio and video to music and video sites! Serious DAW - wonder if the big boys are keeping an on eye on these dudes!

DP has been in the shadows of Pro Tools for as long as I can remember, but it has always be the more flexible, full featured DAW. The most recent incarnation gives you tons of usable plug-ins, instruments and endless routing, editing, tracking and mixing possibilities. It is a studio workhorse, head and shoulders above any other DAW for scoring video. Totally undervalued.

DP has been and is my favorite DAW. It offers everything that has any DAW and makes it more elegantly and with more quality. Is incredible. DP is my choice for many years.

Have worked in Cubase, Sonar, DP and Logic Pro. I now flip between Logic and DP. For scoring and/or large works DP hands down over any of them. Period.

This is the best DAW out there for film scoring!

For me Nuendo is a super complete DAW. In it I can record, edit and mix up with the audio quality and efficiency. Besides having an easy to use interface. Leaves nothing to be desired as the others.

I have used other DAW as well. Nothing beats Nuendo. It's best for Mastering and production. You should have good gears. I switched to Nuendo 5 years back and doing great.Sorry for other DAW.

The only DAW for serious film design and production. Automation leaves everyone else in it's wake alone.

Been using Sony Acid since the late 90's back when it was Sonic Foundry. I find the audio recording & plugin support great and easy to use. I also prefer the midi editing. can't really compare it to other DAWs, but for me it does almost everything I need. I have recently been working with Propellerhead Reason 6, and that seems though handle everything and more that Acid can't.

Bad :
Midi sequencer, maps...Automatic knobs. Needs a lot of upgrades.

Good :
The Render of Mixdown takes too long than any new daw... But, the sounds is better than any of this list. Just try to mix the same parts in any software...you'll see the difference. Sonic Foundry was one of the best company in the 90's. Trust me.

I've been using Acid Pro for a while. I disagree with the comment about the xfx plugins sounding too digital and childish. I do have a problem with the registration of these plugins. Sony's online registration tool is garbage and it needs to be fixed. I'm a loop based artist and for my money Acid Pro 7 can't be beat. For live recording I'd use Samplitude.

The XFX included plugins Need Serious Upgrading! They sound Too Digital and very Childish!
I personally wouldn't use it for live recording, but as a Loop Base Music Production Studio
It's the best in my opinion. For live recording I would use another program like Cubase, Protools,
Sonar or Samplitude. The new Izotope plugins work really well.

Highly Innovative, Friendly User interface, suitable for all producers from Beginners to Pros, Anything is possible with Caustic, there are no limits. Free for Windows and Mac. Genius Mobile Version For Android and iOS only $7.99. Large online community where friendly users can share their songs and content. Caustic is incredible because it provides endless possibilities to the creative Producer. Great for sound design as well, easily create your own unique samples and synth patches. However, If all you desire to produce is beats or sample-based music, Caustic has you covered here too. Like I said there are no limits, create the most personal unique music designed entirely by you or make hits with industrial quality, it's up to you. If you want a high quality DAW for very little cost, Caustic is the correct choice. Great software at low cost saves you money for other studio necessities, choose Caustic, after making beautiful music in a relatively short amount of time the scales will ...more

The best daw on the market, easy to pick up, huge potential. There seems to be a lot of snobbery amongst daw users when it comes to products like caustic. Don't listen to these people, try caustic for yourself and see. Anything produced on caustic 3 will sound every bit as good as any other daw, and that is all that matters. Caustic gets the same results twice as fast and twice as easy as any other daw. Music making should be fun and intuitive not boring and complicated. What caustic has done is given us a daw that is both very powerful and capable, but still user friendly something the others are not. Also caustic, just like Cubasis is available on iPad which makes it the best and easiest way to make music. Also on mac and pc of course. A fantastic bit of software that just keeps getting better.

The most feature rich mobile DAW available at a great price, featuring 10+ instruments including a sampler, subtractive synth, vocoder, fully modular synth (with 20+ different modules), and more, plus 16 different effects. It exceeds any other competitor in the mobile market in its capabilities and ease of use. Caustic is comparable to desktop DAW's while costing considerably less, and with a talented, active developer (that's right, one developer) it keeps getting better.

No other program that I have come across is as easy to pick up yet richly packed with features. It is simple, intuitive and easily approachable for a beginner to get started making tracks in the first few minutes.

Similar to Live, but has new features I.E. Better and more customizable interface, clip and arrange views, and sandboxed VSTs (meaning that when the VST crashes the whole project doesn't also crash). Currently it has no Rewire support and an advanced collaboration feature is in the works, meaning that this new DAW will grow bigger and catch up with the other bad boys once other features come in. Should not be 19 at least get this new kid at 15 or closer!

I have worked with 5 profesional DAWs, and I must to say that BitWig surprised me; is very intuitive, BitWig takes the best of Ableton Live and I can to predict that will be one of the best DAWs in the future.

Amazing new DAW with developers that are listening to the community. Ableton users will feel at home.

Recorded all my songs with BW. Excellent workflow, allowing to focus on creativity. The GUI is great. Works on Linux as well.

Great all around Daw system. I love the 16 pads and midi for keys. I come from the MPC world so this works great live and in the studio. The editing and sample capabilities are easy and awesome! Best price and great sounds!

This is a great DAW, anyone can use it, even if you're just starting to make music. It will be twice as good after its upgrade next month.

This a great DAW, if you don't know about it, then look it up.

Very reliable for audio recording with great effects and easy to use.

As a Mastering Engineer I used Mac based Sonic Solutions in the 1990's. The company went belly-up and the winner after that became Merging with the PC based Pyramix. It can do anything you can possibly dream of, except make coffee.

Power, Flexibility, Features, adapts to your style, a little longer learning curve simply because it does so much! Sonic performance second to none.

Been using since version 2, with all bugs and flaws of legacy design. Now with version 4 it is just brilliant. Name your price, from $1, or build yourself from source.