A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing and producing audio files.
List of well known DAWs
Free:
- LMMS: Free DAW compatible with Linux, Mac and Windows, with a 32bit vst bridge and come with 16 built-in synthetizers
- Sunvox: Free Tracker inspired modular DAW, where you link nodes together like on a modular synthetizer. Linux, Mac and Windows. And more
- Cakewalk: Free DAW (account creation required)
Not free:
- Renoise: Tracker inspired DAW, where you use a tracker grid to enter notes rather than a piano roll
- Reaper: Cheap DAW of good quality, a good choice to record real instruments
- Ableton: Powerful DAW with high hardware compatibility, but doesn' support 32 bit vsts
- FL studio: DAW
- Cubase: DAW
- Logic Pro: Apple DAW
- Reason: DAW
See also