8 Best DAWs of 2024 (FREE & Paid Options)

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A DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) is a software program that allows musicians and sound designers to produce their tracks. Within a DAW, musicians and producers can record, process, mix and master audio. DAWs are incredibly powerful creative tools that allow musicians, producers and sound designers to create beautiful compositions. So in this tutorial, I've decided to round up the best 8 DAWS of 2024. I've included by free DAWS as well as Paid DAWs in this list to give a wide range of options for different budgets.

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Time Stamps
0:39 - Ardour
1:37 - LMMS
2:29 - Reaper
3:24 - Cubebase
4:10 - Logic Pro
4:35 - Ableton Live
5:44 - FL Studio
6:33 - Pro Tools

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Reaper Features

1. 128 audio channels per mixer track
2. Advanced routing features
3. Advanced "side chaining" & modulation for All parameters on any plugin
4. Built-in pitch correction (both auto & manual)
5. Great stock (fx) plugins plus use any 3rd party plugin format {including CLAP, LV2}
6. Extremely Advanced render options & render queue with flexible naming options when rendering multiple items.
7. 32 customizable tool bars
8. Create your own keyboard shortcuts
9. Create custom macros which automates multiple commands into 1 action then map that to a keyboard shortcut
10. Portable install
11. Advanced multiple layered "track freeze" with the ability to go all the way back to the original state even after closing the project
12. Load project in offline mode to troubleshoot buggy vsts
13. Extremely low RAM & CPU usage
14. Amazing noise removal
15. Vocal alignment function built-in
16. Versatile time Stretch options
17. Open & switch between multiple sessions
18. Remote session collaboration tools (NinJAM)
19. Online repository with over 2000 community based enhancements including plugins
20. Sub-project linking. Great for Mastering workflow
21. Remote control daw via any web browser ON ANY DEVICE
22. ChordGUN for Key/chord degree music theory workflow
23. MIDI key lock
24. Save "undo" as a part the project for unlimited "undos" even after closing & reloading sessions
25. Loop record & create take lanes for both audio & midi to capture the perfect performance or use comping to achieve the perfect take
26. Tempo lock samples to your project with built-in sample browser
27. Delta solo
28. Ara support
29. Agnostic tracks... Meaning there are no specific track type.
30. Put Midi, audio, mono, stereo, video or image files, all on the same track
31. Media browser can show 🎶 notes (C, C#, Gb etc) being played in the sample being previewed
32. Video editing & rendering
33. Oversampling for any individual plugin
34. Oversampling for any plugin chain
35. Spectral audio editing
36. Separate GLOBAL slots for Monitoring FX
37. Parallel & multi-band processing for any plugin
38. Advanced automation clip editing & manipulation
39. Midi side processing workflow for any plugin available for any plugin
40. Support for CLAP plugin format
41. MPE Support
42. Markers & Mult-layered Region Marker

Reaper 7

43. Create & save plugin containers
44. Track spacers
45. New parallel signal workflow on a single track. Both with plugins & plugin containers
46. New take lanes workflow with new "swipe comping" tool., while still retaining the old comping workflow
47. Gain reduction read out for compressors & limiters that support it
48. Supports 512 physical inputs & 512 physical outputs
49. Advanced Surround sound panning
50. Retroactive midi recording
51. Advanced time stretch algorithms

BamBamTheInfluence

Bitwig is my DAW of choice. I had Ableton Live for years, but never felt very comfortable with it (I hated using TAB to switch between the two workscreens for example). Coming from the old Project 5 (long discontinued already), I felt immediately at home with Bitwig. Long story short, I fianally sold Ableton Live and use Bitwig now in stead. To be fair, for some tasks I use Cubase, that I already own for many, many years. But Bitwig let me experiment and create, so this is my main DAW.

jclosed

What about Reason & Presonus Studio One?

Djsiya

There is nothing better than Digital Performer!

karayuschij

Reason is the best hands down you gotta cover it

paulking

I use Logic Pro X 11.0.1 and I am quite comfortable with this. I purchased Studio 4 and because I have an M! Max I cannot even open this DAW. I spent quite a bit of money for this.

TheDelta

Back when I was recording my old band in the mid 2000s I had the most obnoxious and circuitous method of recording. I liked certain interface feels, and Sony Sound Forge was one I liked. I used FL Studio to program our drums and keyboards, and you could only output at 16bit OR 32 bit at that time. So I would output to a 32 bit wav. Slap that puppy into Sound Forge where I had a script to dither it down to 24 bits, and then I would import it into Sony Vegas and use that as a multitrack DAW for audio only and it worked, if gave me everything I needed, I didn't have to learn to use FL as a VST, anything like that. I was stubborn and set in my ways and that was my workflow. Insane, I know haha.

eboethrasher

Cool Man!!! I did not know reaper did all 3 Platforms!! I need Arch Linux b.t.w, and Mac!! Great Video!!!!

jayrockya

Can i use them for Live karaoke ? LMMS

drfetkq

I'm learning how to use Reaper. I'm blind and there's a blind comunity for it.
If I learn Mac again I could also learn Logic.
Pro Tules is I know the Studio standard but well on PC at least we the blind lost access to it ages and ages ago. Don't know about Mac.
I know of Cubase cause it comes with the H recorders of Zoom. Does something like Soney's SoundForge count as a DAW? IF not what is stuff like that called?

MrHamit

Several not mentioned that are way more popular and better than half of those 8 mentioned here:

Tracktion Waveform, both paid and their FREE edition is about the best thing to start with in the entire market. Also Bitwig is overtaking Ableton Live, and as mentioned Reason is huge as even if you want more power in the DAW you'll never regret all the Players if you're using generative tools and not recording mostly live musicians, and lastly Studio One.

The key is understanding HOW you want to make music and then learning HOW each of those tools fits for those methods and the workflows they suggest.

Reason is pretty much unbeatable if you're into generative Players, MIDI manipulation with its chord/arpeggiator/etc. tools. But not so much if you just record traditional live instruments.

brianmi