When comparing Waveform vs Jeskola Buzz, the Slant community recommends Waveform for most people. In the question“What are the best DAWs? ” Waveform is ranked 14th while Jeskola Buzz is ranked 32nd. The most important reason people chose Waveform is:
Runs great on Linux(except LV2 Support).
Specs
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Pros
Pro Linux support
Runs great on Linux(except LV2 Support).
Pro Free version available
Older releases are available for free when new versions come out.
Pro Clean interface
Pro ARM/ARM64 support
Runs on SBC (single board computer) systems like the Raspberry Pi3, Pine64, and ODroid development boards, as well as systems like the Pinebook and Chromebooks with ARM based SoC CPU's that have been reformatted with a Linux OS.
Pro Easy to understand
Very logically structured.
Pro Creative Tools
Has a Chord Track, MIDI pattern creator and great included tools.
Pro Very stable
Pro Ideal for beginners
Self-explaining interface.
Pro Unlimited possibilities
Once you learn how to use this soft, its modular way of connecting "machines" allows you to make endless combinations of effects connected in any order forwards and backwards between any of them. This allows you to make unbelievable unique effect chains.
Pro It is free
You get the full functionality for free.
Pro Lots of plugins
It supports its own plugin format, and there are a lot of community-created plugins.
Pro VST support
VST is supported via a special plugin.
Cons
Con Crashes a lot
Con Not open source
Con Not suited for live performance
No session based Workflow (like Live/Bitwig), hiccups upon loading projects.
Con No option to easily cut a file
There is no scissors tool or similar....
Con Very unstable
Buzz crashes really very often, especially when using a lot of third party VST plugins.
Con Not a complete DAW solution
It lacks some typical DAW functionality, although with some trickery you can do anything.
Con Windows only
Rumors are, it can be launched with Wine on Linux.
Con Not beginner friendly
