Best DAW For Beginners & The Easiest DAW

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0:00 Intro to the Best DAW for Beginners
0:10 Problem With the Answer
0:25 What To Expect
0:45 Music Programs For Beat Making & EDM
0:57 FL Studio
2:22 Ableton Live
3:52 Magix Music Maker
5:57 Garageband
6:40 DAWs With More Modern Workflows
7:01 Presonus Studio One
8:21 Tracktion Waveform
9:52 DAWs With More Traditional Workflows
9:59 Avid Pro Tools
11:27 Reaper DAW
12:42 Cakewalk by Bandlab
13:53 What Is The Best DAW For You As A Beginner
14:24 The Easiest DAW For You
15:17 Over 80 Free VST Plugins You Can Download

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About this video
In this video Zane from Audio Tech TV (formerly Simple Green Tech) looks at what's the best DAW for beginners and what's the easiest DAW. These 2 questions come up all the time on my channel and there isn't 1 easy answer. But there is a best daw for you and there is an easiest daw for you so this video tries to help you find that.

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[dareliv_nlove]

Waveform Free recommendation all the way for me. The UI is super user-friendly for those like me who are firmly entrenched in the modern digital UI era, who might be less familiar with anologue-recording design-language, but also contains deep/advanced functions.

[crowdkillproductions.]

for me it was mixcraft 9. crazy easy to use.

[Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

As someone who had only worked in analogue previously, Waveform 11 was very easy to record with. I don't use anything on the left, but if you want to record, and add plugins to what you've recorded, it'll take you about 10 minutes to work it out.

[tommyapocalypse]

The easiest DAW for me was Garageband. I then moved up to Logic Pro, and have not looked back (remembering Lot's wife). There have been times that I have cast my glance aside and have tried DAWs like Ableton Live, Studio One, Reaper, and most recently Luna and Waveform Free 12.

I gave them all up. Logic has everything I need and love, and if I don't need a feature or function, I simply don't use it.

[GabriellaDangelino]

i found mixcraft pro 9 to be the easiest to use with everything in the place you'd expect EVEN for an amateur like me PLUS everything works without any setting up. It's just fantastic that you don't usually have to set up audio, midi or anything PLUS it was the cheapest last year. I bought fl studio all plugins on sale and bought Cubase 12 Pro but there's much setting up "for me" before i can actually use it. I bought magix music maker a couple of years ago but it's extremely bloated and as you just said you have to buy a special expensive license to use their loops. Thank you Zane. PS, Yes presonus studio one was another daw that worked right out the box for me and I managed to record a song.

[lucasjcooper]

I started with Waveform, but as I continued on I never enjoyed it so I switched to reaper. I threw a logic pro skin on it and loved it (still do). I now use Logic Pro but I will always advocate for reaper

[WispOfSoul]

I always suggest Ardour, and Zrythm when people ask me about DAWs mostly because they're really cheap (1 dollar for Ardour and 11 for Zrythm) and have free trials with some minor limitations, but I still append that with "that's what I like, but you should try a few DAWs and choose whichever one you like."

[DeltaWhiskeyBravo]

I tried Studio One Artist 6 that came with my Studio 68c USB interface and it just worked well with my needs from the beginning. Right now, I'm just using S1 as my effects for the USB Livestream sound at church. I do plan on song creation later, and since I'm used to S1, I'll just expand what I'm doing there.

I've also tried Ableton Live lite that came free with their Scarlett 2i2, and I just couldn't get anywhere. No worries it was free.

Great info on these DAW choices.

[bmp_giorgionegro]

I use Reaper, Cubase, Acid, Studio One Artist, it's depends by musical genre, but the best DAW workflow is MIXCRAFT 9 STUDIO

[farrell]

I've been learning Cakewalk and Reaper for a few weeks recording a different song in each DAW. To me, Cakewalk feels much more like an analogue workflow and Reaper seems a little more modern. I'm going to continue to learn both, working on different projects in each. So far, I really like the Pro channel in Cakewalk and the way Reaper doesn't distinguish between tracks. So far, I think both are great regardless of cost!

[ac]

Logic(If you already kinda know how to play an instrument)/Garage (if you dont) > FL Studio > Ableton Live

In my personal experience, i would rank /EASIEST/ DAWs like that^^^

But I recommend Logic first and foremost for people like me that already have tried starting with free ableton or FL Studio trials and considered quitting music altogether after getting overwhelmed. Its not as modular (meaning: “experimental” i guess) as the other options BUT the presentation is clean, and the sounds that it already comes with i can totally see being enough to comfortably write a hit.

But id recommend the DAW that you like looking at the most maybe. The more you like to look at something, the more youre likely to use it. And the more you use it, the more experience and practice you get which is the main thing

[TheTonyTitan]

It's fun to try it different DAWs. When I got started I downloaded bandlab and the free versions of Ableton and FL. For some reason, I could never get audio out of bandlab. Fruity Loops was easy to figure out but had many drop down menus it got in my way of creating. Ableton wasn't too difficult to figure out, but it wasn't as easy as FL Studio. Ableton's layout is just so much more simple and straightforward, with everything right in one column so everything is easy to find.. So I learned Ableton but I try out other programs from time to time. I was looking at Bitwig until they had their recent controversy. Good video bro

[stevej]

KORG Gadget is good for beginners (and others). Very intuitive, easy to understand the basics, but has a huge number of additional options. And you can keep adding more ‘gadgets’ to expand the possibilities. Once you’ve mastered that, you’ll be ready for something like Ableton which has even more possibilities.

[drummermomcjs]

I just bought the Sterling H224 Recording suite and it came with Tracktion which I am learning. Thus far your videos have been most helpful. I look forward to further content and being able to create and post content as well. 🙂

[WarrenPostma]

Bitwig deserves a spot on this list as well.

[persephonethereaper]

Just finished the video. Have insomnia and you know I like hearing talk about DAWS in case I want to try out a third one see if it suits me better than my current two DAWS of choice. I’ve found that Waveform free suits my needs I just need to watch your playlist on it, but…I’m tired either way insomnia and should probably either be fully awake or at least take notes for those. Nice video.

[marcus_ohreallyus]

I just started FL recently and banged my head against it for a few days until I started to get how it works.

[anvay]

I got Reaper to learn programming. It seems difficult at first its not really intuitive. You need to just know where to click but once you do its limitless

[dwaynelford]

Bitwig is really beginner friendly as well. Has been my main for the past 6 years. Can't go wrong with Studio One and Ableton either.

[markrawlison]

Any recommendations on a good, free Mastering Program? Thanks!