When comparing Acid Music Studio 10 vs Waveform, the Slant community recommends Waveform for most people. In the question“What are the best DAWs? ” Waveform is ranked 14th while Acid Music Studio 10 is ranked 49th. The most important reason people chose Waveform is:
Runs great on Linux(except LV2 Support).
Specs
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Pros
Pro Great for creating ideas quickly
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.
Cons
Con Only 32 bit
Still only 32 bit so can't use 64 bit VSTs. Since most things are moving to 64 bit, makes it kinda useless going forward.
Con Idiosyncratic, dated interface
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....