What is the best alternative to Studio One?

MuLab includes MUX Modular, a modular synth and effect engine, that can be used to create and edito own synths and effects patches.

MuLab has a clean, minimalistic interface that uses highly distinct icons sparingly making it easy to overview. Much of the functionality can be found in right-click menus.

Can be installed and run on a portable device such as a USB stick.

Each track can receive an unlimited number of VST, aux, and audio inputs.

This DAW comes with the Acoustica Instruments collection, which is packed full of realistic sounding MIDI instruments like organs, pianos, drums, and orchestral instruments.

It's one of the cheapest DAWs you can get for its many features.

Using the navigator at the top of the screen, Podium users can click and zoom, adjust the edges of the viewed area, or click a programmable button to the left of the navigator that jumps to a selected view.

Mice with 4-way scroll wheels are compatible with Podium.

Zynewave plugins use custom editors that are built in to the inspector's rack panel, allowing users to adjust settings without having to open a new window.

Multi-track recording is an option provided by Acid Pro 7 that can be especially beneficial for live performances. Each instrument can be recorded live with its own effects and input monitoring.

Resizing is easy with Acid Pro 7, and can be done to every track at the same time with one master slider.

ReNoise 3 offers a ridiculous amount of flexibility when it comes to automation. Instead automating by sliding points around, users can choose from an array of preloaded automation patterns in order to produce more interesting sounding patterns.

Module trackers are preferred by some users because they help increase productivity.

Shortcuts and other methods are used in order to minimize the amount of work that users must do with a mouse. This can greatly increase the efficiency of a workflow.

You get the full functionality for free

It supports its own plugin format, and there are a lot of community-created plugins.

VST is supported via a special plugin.

Supplied with many cheap and cheerful VSTs and VSTIs.

Self contained modular environment for hooking up processing chains of plugins or instruments in any way you want.

Tracktion 5 is now compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Melodyne is a pitch correction software that now comes free with Tracktion 5. At $60, Tracktion 5 with Melodyne costs about half as much as the standalone version of Melodyne.

A Pro Channel ensures that you have all the necessary plugins in a really good mixing rack with console emulation for all busses and channels. This feels and sounds like a real mixing console.

The Sonar DAW has some of the best pitch correction available, and it comes with the DAW.

Audacity is available for free on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux with source code available here.

Audacity is constantly updated.

With a dual monitor setup, Pyramix fills the main monitor with the Project Window, and the secondary monitor with secondary editing tools, VSTs, or any other features that are run separately from the main interface.

When importing an audio clip, Pyramix adjusts the tempo using a built in sample-rate conversion facility so that the clip will sound ideal.

The fade editor and cross-fade editor is a feature in Pyramix that is difficult to find in other DAWs. This editor lets users apply different envelopes to fades. This creates interesting effects for ambient sounds or clips that have been split and should fade in/out slowly.

All functionality is accessible on the Microsoft Surface.

Little chance of getting lost or clicking the wrong button.

Incredibly responsive and quick.

The new browser in Numerology 4 utilizes drag and drop for samples, and has an auto play mode for quick browsing.

Numerology 4 has made it possible for users to use several grid controllers at once. This can be useful when one controller is set up specifically for FX and the other is specifically for note input.

When in stacked mode, all of your takes can be shown in a single track side by side. You can then select what parts of which take you need. If you are recording MIDI, the Cubase DAW allows creating a pattern that can overlap and be re-used as many times as needed.

Logical Editor allows customizing MIDI data according, in order to set rules to save time.

The summing engine is responsible for processing tracks and combining them into the correct output. In comparison to other DAWs, Cubase's summing engine is excellent.

Ableton's session view gives a much quicker, more flexible way of experimenting with ideas than a typical linear interface. In session view, each instrument part is a separate entity that can be mixed and matched with other parts without having to rearrange anything. Any and every effect is con...

You can add curves to automation. Additionally, Ableton lets users duplicate certain automations quickly.

The Ableton DAW offers a great sampling experience, which can be approached in many different ways. Audio can be directly chopped, quantized, warped, and even chopped into MIDI clips. Ableton's built in sampler also allows clean pitching along with useful loop functions.

Good range of high quality synths: analog, FM, wavetable, string modulation, sampler, organ, clarinet, epiano.

The initial download of Logic Pro X gives users 2gb of samples, but the DAW automatically downloads 57gb of samples once the Logic Pro X DAW is installed.

This program costs US$200 and must be bought from the app store.

Compatible with Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android devices.

Supports VST and VSTi plugins.

Anyone can pick up and use this DAW to create music.

The most affordable DAW solution out there.

All the stock plugins look really nice and really show users what is being done, it's a great way to learn mixing theory for a beginner. This approach makes FL Studio easy to learn compared to other DAWs.

No complex activation shenanigans. No dongle and such.

With the producer or signature bundle, updates are free forever.

Reaper lets users change to different themes, supports the use of a wealth of (free) extensions and has a lot of options when it comes to rendering.

There are no limits on amount of tracks and effects that those tracks can be equipped with.

Alongside generally quick pace of updates, Reaper developers pay very close attention to user feedback and are constantly adding features based on their requests so much so that some even consider it somewhat of a crowdsourced DAW.