Bitwig Studio vs Jeskola Buzz

Makes use of the Seaboard, Linnstrument, Continuum and other modern expressive controllers.

The easiest DAW to do automation in. All you have to do is press record and start moving knobs, and that's it.

The ability to run two sequencers at the same time, while swapping out sounds gives you great flexibility to complete a song.

This software has big, responsive, easy-to-handle controls that work really well on a touchscreen. Additionally, it has a tablet mode that re-organizes the UI to make it much simpler and perfect for smaller screen devices. This is both a mobile touchscreen app and a DAW at the same time! It even has a built-in keyboard/drumpad.

The Bitwig DAW runs on Mac, PC, and, Linux. This DAW also has the distinction of being one of the only DAWs that can run 32 bit and 64 bit plugins at the same time.

Being able to add multiple midi instruments on the same track is a nice feature. It allows for much easier setup for VSTs like Cthulhu. It's also nice to be able to have multiple instruments setup that can be toggled.

There is an instrument called Sampler which can correctly load sf2 instruments as a multisample preserving all individual sub sample settings and zoning. You do NOT need a VST to play soundfonts and you don't need to extract the sf2 samples! This is unique among all popular DAWs.

Create any style synth, wavetable, fm, analog, and fx in the grid.

Plugins can be sandboxed.

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.

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.