Tracktion Waveform FREE - I enjoyed plug-in crashing, DAW crashing during project loading and slowdowns for 4 hours, then I deleted it with note to look at it next year.
List: Cakewalk(Unlimited tracks,Third party plugins/Windows only) Garageband(Easy to use,Third party support,High quality sounds and instuments/Mac only,No mixer or auxiliary channel support) LMMS(FL studio workflow,Third party plugin support/Recording audio not supported[you can do it with audacity]) Tracktion Waveform Free(Unlimited tracks,third party plugn support/No track editor,No arranger track,No quick actions) Ardour(Unlimited tracks,third party plugin support/silent after 10 minutes) Soundbridge(unlimited tracks,third party plugin support,GUI scaling and tablet support/Random pop up asking for donations)
Does it retain the same or similar interface to the old versions? I used an older edition about 25 years ago as well but I want to get back into music production now. Thanks.
I did use cakewalk lite in the past when i got it with a Roland/Boss device i bought. Back then it took me lot of effort to get something done. When a colleague at work introduced me to Reaper it felt much more intuitive. That is of course my personal experience
I was using Cakewalk Home Studio back in 1998 or so. I've since switched to Reaper ( which I used "for free" for about 5 years, then finally caved and bought the license). I tried the Bandlab/Calkwalk, and just couldn't get into it after getting used to Reaper.
I've been using Reaper for years and recently decided to throw money at it to support the devs. I just like it that much. I also own FL Studio but I work in Reaper 80% of the time.
A nice, brief and straight-to-the-point video. I am also using Cakewalk, although new to using DAWs and finding it a little challenging other than to just record a few basic tracks. Other than that, I have been using MPC Beats, which I find easier to use, in terms of actually getting a usable sound from a plugin and the ease of finding out how to edit recorded notes/beats.
Cakewalk. No brainer. Easy to use. Powerful. Unlimited tracks and tons of third party plugins. Love the pro channel and how easy it is to customize. Great vid. Thx for the upload.
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 Reaper 7 42. Create & save plugin containers 43. Track spacers 44. New parallel signal workflow on a single track. Both with plugins & plugin containers 45. New take lanes workflow with new "swipe comping" tool., while still retaining the old comping workflow 46. Gain reduction read out for compressors & limiters that support it 47. Supports 512 physical inputs & 512 physical outputs 48. Advanced Surround sound panning 49. Retroactive midi recording 50. Advanced time stretch algorithms
Also, MPC beats may not be a proper DAW (only 2 audio tracks) but is easily the king as far as free drum/sampler solutions. the fact that it can work within any of these free daws makes the audio track limitation less of an issue.
Studio One prime is great for beginners. The 2 drawbacks are; 1. lack of Bus channels, but there is a hack of sorts for basic bus channels 2) no vst support but for a beginner that may be a blessing in disguise since it forces you to learn stock plugins. 3) comes with only one instrument and it's not even a proper synth. It's an ok rompler. the upside is there is a hack to expand that instrument via soundfonts. not ideal but still better than instruments cakewalk offers.
The free version of S1 that i got with my audio interface came with several VSTs , maybe they changed that. This was back in 2014. I later paid the $100 for the full software as i had got so comfortable using it and had no reason to go and learn something new.
You can download the demo of reaper. The demo works endless. Without limitation. You just have to wait 5 seconds every time you start reaper. But it's recommended to support the development. They need money too.
It might help to distinguish free as in no-cost versus free as in open-code and to share ('libre'). Ardour falls under all categories, is a professional-level DAW and runs on most platforms. If you want their build, it's minimum ~$1 USD donation, if you want to build it yourself from the code, it's free. AFAIU, there's no real alternative to Ardour that is at once, recording-professional-quality/level, free, libre, community-driven, open-code and runs on most common platforms like Linux, Mac and PC. It's like the Blender3D of DAWs.
Excellent entertaining and informing round up! Would have liked to have heard more about Cubasis versus FL studio versus Ableton but that’s OK, I learned a lot.
Important point to remember, all these DAW's will capture and play back the exact same extremely high quality audio - what you do with that audio as it records or plays back (e.g. EQ/Compression/Reverb etc etc) is, of course, up to you. Myself? I'm a long term DAW user, mainly Cakewalk, and in fact, the last DAW I purchased was Cakewalk's then flagship product - Sonar Platinum (a Cubase/Protools etc competitor) for....£600(!!) some years ago. Bandlab now owns Cakewalk and, stunningly, give away the full version of Sonar Platinum...for FREE. Even more remarkable is that the same programmers from the original Cakewalk are providing regular updates, improvements and new features for Cakewalk. Your own VST's? - no probs to add them. Unlimited tracks? yup. Yes, it's Windows only, unfortunately, but if you use Windows it's a no-brainer. No other free DAW comes close to it, and, remarkably, it still competes with every retail DAW (Cubase, Protools etc).
I will try Cakewalk.....but having fun trying Bandlab. Gave up on Ableton lite.....too much crashes, and weird playback noises....they need to remake Ableton. Audacity is great for audio files . Someday I hope they can turn Audacity into a great DAW.....like the simplicity.
Reaper is like trying to fly a spaceship -Very, VERY, very, very difficult to use. Not user friendly or beginner friendly or intuitive, but it is stable, and the undo function works on EVERYTHING in that DAW (unlike Waveform, which is basically unusable for mixing in it's current incarnation...) -Very linear undoing, which to me is ESSENTIAL.
@@LANDRmusic I have no need for all of the crazy stuff Reaper does -If Waveform had an undo /redo function that covered all parameters (a la Reaper), I imagine I'd ditch Reaper completely. I've become so reliant on that aspect of Reaper...
@@LANDRmusic you guys should do an android daw vs iOS daw roundup, because while I'm android fan boy, music creation seems to be where it's at on iOS, they even have a velocity sensative touch screen
Reaper is amazing. I plan on paying for it. I have it behaving like ableton with drum racks, layered and split keyboard presets. runs like a charm on my dead laptop (Linux on a flash drive). i love the ability to customize every action, and to save configuration files, as well as track templates, etc...
You can fully customise the UI aswell. Reaper is the programmers dream of DAWs. If you know how to write code or where to download others you can do so many things in reaper that other daws can’t dream of doing.
3:28 While that's true for LMMS if you stick to the stable channel, there are nightly builds that allow you to record from a MIDI device. I can't guarantee those are available for Windows though since I'm using Linux
Great Reviews But There are Some Other Daws also which are Free Like Presonus Studio One Prime, Magix Music Makers which are Awesome...You should Include Them Also...
@@christophertodman yeah I got prime because I saw it in a video like this and it looked like the best option. But when I got it I realized how limiting it was. Like you can't even use plugins
@@softbleach487In fact, it is possible to use 3rd party Vst in Studio Prime even if the soft has limitations. You can watch some videos on YT explaining how to add your own VST's and it works well.
Anything I’ve tried using that was band lab always SUCKED. Now, maybe if you’re trying to make digital sounding, corporate mass produced things where you just sit there cutting and pasting snippets together, then yeah, I guess I can see where someone might say it makes booty cheeks clap But if you’re trying to actually record instruments that you’re actually playing, definitely look elsewhere
@@youngj.c5690I found band lab to be very difficult to use myself. I think it’s because they go cheap with most of it by providing an “okay” DAW and offering all these room sounds and effects that aren’t all that. But they failed to take user efficiency into account. It’s still not nearly complicated as an operators manual for a firmware driven synth by moog. Those bastards… I swear they make their shit as complicated as they possibly can just to make players discouraged in an effort to weed them out. Doing that might be connected to the value of their instruments increasing
Ive been trying to use LMMS but after seeing that one guy make something 10x better than I ever have in about 10 seconds, I believe its time i learn how to make music, however you do that (what is it even called?)
Thanks a lot! It works great, I downloaded and installed it but why it's missing the Overlay option in Tools - Video Editing? Is there any additional patch?
Heh heh heh - yeah and AYE to Cakewalk by Bandlab....but i will only sequence using TTS instruments first BEFORE any intention to replace that TTS track with some awesome FREEBIE Kontakt instruments, especially the Alpine Project Orchestra, for instance
Which one of these is the closest to Audacity? -I do all my pre-production in Audacity because it's SOOO easy to use, but one SERIOUS drawback of that DAW is that you CAN'T RECORD MORE THAN TWO CHANNELS SIMULTANEOUSLY!!!! I'm using Reaper for tacking right now, but that DAW is a nightmare, if you ask me -The most counterintuitive thing I could ever imagine someone creating... EVER...
I use Samplitude Music Studio, whilst not free it can normally be bought for less than £50.00. It does everything I need so even though I get offered an upgrade to their pro version at a good price every now and then, I stick with this. It has quite a lot of instruments but I tend to use only the drums with midi as the rest of my recording is guitars and voice so I can't comment on them. I have tried all the others in your video but found they all had some annoying features, some very annoying.
you forget the free version of Studio One .... its totaly free and the limitation is, that you can't use 3 party plugins (but you can get this cheap as add on)... of course it is without the Mastering-Section (not Mastersection) from the pro version and it has not all of the major plugins from the other versions, but all you need for a good production is in. Unlimeted tracks, midi and waves as well, send and busses.
Cakewalk left me in disappointment. For no particular reason, it refuses to work with my audio sources and drivers. No, they aren't outdated and I am using Windows 10. I spent 45 minutes even searching for answers on it and it doesn't look like it's just me experiencing it. Whatever I would do, there would be no audio. Cakewalk is very driver-sensitive.
the UI for LMMS is an utter nightmare. I use it in Linux. Too many windows. Too much clicking to do stuff. I have carpal tunnel syndrome, so that's a dealbreaker. I like Reaper, and haven't paid for it yet, but plan to. My favorite is Ableton, but I don't have a windows computer right now.. I can't load a lot of my fav VSTs in Reaper, tho, I have a rare linux distro, so I have to use Linux LMMS to play my fav VSTs, record loops and export the audio to arrange in Reaper, since arranging in LMMS is a grave chore...
Ahh... I had paid for a full version of FL Studio, hence the question is now off the table. Cakewalk is absolutely great if you really don't want to spend on a DAW. Not that I regret paying for FL or anything. LMMS is unfinished not ready for anything. If I had the money I'd hire a programmer to finish it up. It's taking way too long to implement any feature there, at least getting VST plugins to work.
Reaper=+++++++++++ , i tried version 5 , then i paid version 5 , and i was not able to resist to V6 so i paid and i am a happy Linux version user.i AM USING ALL FREE STUFF ,synth , soundfonts , orchestral...
I just downloaded Cakewalk to record a simple guitar melody as my backing track. Fiddled with it for almost an hour now and didnt manage to record a single note...
there is a lot of good free vst instruments, only is necesary the vst support. reaper is not free, and I think is the best of all the DAWs, even paid daws. trial versions don't count because of the limitations, I think cakewalk is the best free DAW. Other DAWs like ableton, fl studio, bit wig are funny, and good for some kind of music, but have limitations. to make music of any genre I think Reaper or Studio One are the best, I don't know pro tools and logic.
Really great compilation. But what kinda bothers me is, that you said there is no opportunity to save your project in the FL Studio demo. You can, but you can't open it unless you have any full version of it.
Some of them either aren't really free as claimed, or in most cases, don't even work!!!! I've been trying to find a decent one for a while now after my 4 track stopped sounding decent & tried audacity. Audacity sounds ok. I'm actually fine with how it sounds. BUT. If you multitrack, which you do if you actually play your instruments, aligning tracks - or having them in time, in sync, whatever - is near impossible!!!! It's ridiculous.
Looks like a lot of y'all use Cakewalk. What other free DAWs do you use?
I realize it is kinda off topic but do anybody know of a good place to watch new movies online ?
I've been using cakewalk. I love it's features but i get so many audio dropouts during recording.
Tracktion Waveform FREE - I enjoyed plug-in crashing, DAW crashing during project loading and slowdowns for 4 hours, then I deleted it with note to look at it next year.
Ableton live lite 11
None, actually. I use Reaper but I bought a non-commercial license. Planning to check out Ardour though.
List:
Cakewalk(Unlimited tracks,Third party plugins/Windows only)
Garageband(Easy to use,Third party support,High quality sounds and instuments/Mac only,No mixer or auxiliary channel support)
LMMS(FL studio workflow,Third party plugin support/Recording audio not supported[you can do it with audacity])
Tracktion Waveform Free(Unlimited tracks,third party plugn support/No track editor,No arranger track,No quick actions)
Ardour(Unlimited tracks,third party plugin support/silent after 10 minutes)
Soundbridge(unlimited tracks,third party plugin support,GUI scaling and tablet support/Random pop up asking for donations)
I used Cakewalk in 1994. It's been going for a while. Can't really complain about built-in instruments in a free DAW.
1994?!?!?!
Does it retain the same or similar interface to the old versions? I used an older edition about 25 years ago as well but I want to get back into music production now. Thanks.
I did use cakewalk lite in the past when i got it with a Roland/Boss device i bought. Back then it took me lot of effort to get something done. When a colleague at work introduced me to Reaper it felt much more intuitive. That is of course my personal experience
@@ceo-potato Yes...hahaha
I was using Cakewalk Home Studio back in 1998 or so. I've since switched to Reaper ( which I used "for free" for about 5 years, then finally caved and bought the license). I tried the Bandlab/Calkwalk, and just couldn't get into it after getting used to Reaper.
I am an LMMS producer and I find that it works really well.
i use fl studio now and it was a big investment but honestly for a free daw, lmms is great
@@_SpaceTunes but fl is 100x better isn’t it
@@N0vAtbh it is, trust me
What is lmms available on
I've been using Reaper for years and recently decided to throw money at it to support the devs. I just like it that much. I also own FL Studio but I work in Reaper 80% of the time.
Yep! If you customize Reaper to your liking, it truly is the most powerful DAW.
I use both daws as well.
Reaper is a monster, but it needs some study, with the scripts is the number 1 without doubt, I am an absolute fan of reaper
I use both Reaper and LMMS, and then audacity.
A nice, brief and straight-to-the-point video. I am also using Cakewalk, although new to using DAWs and finding it a little challenging other than to just record a few basic tracks. Other than that, I have been using MPC Beats, which I find easier to use, in terms of actually getting a usable sound from a plugin and the ease of finding out how to edit recorded notes/beats.
Hey Antony. Thanks for the kind words! MPC Beats is definitely one to check out.
Cakewalk. No brainer. Easy to use. Powerful. Unlimited tracks and tons of third party plugins. Love the pro channel and how easy it is to customize. Great vid. Thx for the upload.
does it have musical typing
Got my start on lmms
Same, pushed me to trial and buy FL. Still love the lb-302 plugin in lmms
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
Reaper 7
42. Create & save plugin containers
43. Track spacers
44. New parallel signal workflow on a single track. Both with plugins & plugin containers
45. New take lanes workflow with new "swipe comping" tool., while still retaining the old comping workflow
46. Gain reduction read out for compressors & limiters that support it
47. Supports 512 physical inputs & 512 physical outputs
48. Advanced Surround sound panning
49. Retroactive midi recording
50. Advanced time stretch algorithms
Well damn, I might have to pin this comment. As a heavy Reaper user even I wasn't aware of some of these.
@@LANDRmusic this is what I've learned after 2 yrs of using Reaper... I made the switch in 2020 & I use 90% of those features weekly
@@BamBamTheInfluence sounds like it is better than tracktion. Anyway I just need a free DAW for podcasting.
@@BamBamTheInfluence i want daw for mixing and mastering which on e would be best ? can i use reaper ???
@@kineticwayssyes
The ending was such perfect, HAHAHAHA!
You guys are the best 😁
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Started with Sonar. Loved it. But Waveform Free is the way to go!
Also, MPC beats may not be a proper DAW (only 2 audio tracks) but is easily the king as far as free drum/sampler solutions. the fact that it can work within any of these free daws makes the audio track limitation less of an issue.
MPC beats is strong it's also a VST so it works inside of any of these free apps too
I use Ardour full time. I also love the very affordable payment options, I love it.
No kidding? -Any problems with it crashing at all??
@@boobo3763 Ardour never crashed in my hands, but my main daw currently is Cakewalk. Ardour is an alternative to Reaper in some way.
Studio One prime is great for beginners. The 2 drawbacks are; 1. lack of Bus channels, but there is a hack of sorts for basic bus channels 2) no vst support but for a beginner that may be a blessing in disguise since it forces you to learn stock plugins. 3) comes with only one instrument and it's not even a proper synth. It's an ok rompler. the upside is there is a hack to expand that instrument via soundfonts. not ideal but still better than instruments cakewalk offers.
The free version of S1 that i got with my audio interface came with several VSTs , maybe they changed that. This was back in 2014. I later paid the $100 for the full software as i had got so comfortable using it and had no reason to go and learn something new.
I prefer tracktion, because it's can load video for scoring job 👍🏻
Good to know!
Yep Waveform Free is perfect
he says "pay the measly $60 for reaper" ignoring that most people watching this video don't have that money 💀
You can download the demo of reaper. The demo works endless. Without limitation. You just have to wait 5 seconds every time you start reaper. But it's recommended to support the development. They need money too.
It might help to distinguish free as in no-cost versus free as in open-code and to share ('libre'). Ardour falls under all categories, is a professional-level DAW and runs on most platforms. If you want their build, it's minimum ~$1 USD donation, if you want to build it yourself from the code, it's free.
AFAIU, there's no real alternative to Ardour that is at once, recording-professional-quality/level, free, libre, community-driven, open-code and runs on most common platforms like Linux, Mac and PC.
It's like the Blender3D of DAWs.
Been using Reaper since 2006 it's the best. I use it for recording vocals and team it up with fl studio.. They're my batman and robin combo.
i use fl studio on my phone, any tips or guides i can find online?
I actually like Ardour personally. Lua scripting is a massive plus for me.
Thanks so much, so helpfu!
Excellent entertaining and informing round up! Would have liked to have heard more about Cubasis versus FL studio versus Ableton but that’s OK, I learned a lot.
Cakewalk by BandLab ❤️🔥🔥
1:40 sounds cool
+LMMS timestamp example in backround too
"I hate you" has to be one of the best endings to a video like this I've seen, really wasn't expecting that lmao
Important point to remember, all these DAW's will capture and play back the exact same extremely high quality audio - what you do with that audio as it records or plays back (e.g. EQ/Compression/Reverb etc etc) is, of course, up to you.
Myself? I'm a long term DAW user, mainly Cakewalk, and in fact, the last DAW I purchased was Cakewalk's then flagship product - Sonar Platinum (a Cubase/Protools etc competitor) for....£600(!!) some years ago. Bandlab now owns Cakewalk and, stunningly, give away the full version of Sonar Platinum...for FREE. Even more remarkable is that the same programmers from the original Cakewalk are providing regular updates, improvements and new features for Cakewalk. Your own VST's? - no probs to add them. Unlimited tracks? yup. Yes, it's Windows only, unfortunately, but if you use Windows it's a no-brainer. No other free DAW comes close to it, and, remarkably, it still competes with every retail DAW (Cubase, Protools etc).
I will try Cakewalk.....but having fun trying Bandlab.
Gave up on Ableton lite.....too much crashes, and weird playback noises....they need to remake Ableton.
Audacity is great for audio files .
Someday I hope they can turn Audacity into a great DAW.....like the simplicity.
Zrythm is also open source
though on its early stage
Reaper is like trying to fly a spaceship -Very, VERY, very, very difficult to use. Not user friendly or beginner friendly or intuitive, but it is stable, and the undo function works on EVERYTHING in that DAW (unlike Waveform, which is basically unusable for mixing in it's current incarnation...) -Very linear undoing, which to me is ESSENTIAL.
This is accurate. Once you know how to fly that spaceship, it'll take you to another galaxy.
@@LANDRmusic I have no need for all of the crazy stuff Reaper does -If Waveform had an undo /redo function that covered all parameters (a la Reaper), I imagine I'd ditch Reaper completely. I've become so reliant on that aspect of Reaper...
soooo wich one would you recommend for beginners??? I tried reaper but shi too hard
@@orcasmarcos3669 seems like GarageBand takes it. I’ve been using it and it’s pretty fun. LANDR chromatic worked in it!
wow finally something that actually works tysm u earned a subscriber
FL Studio Mobile is also good for just $15.
A mobile DAW roundup is a good idea. Thanks!
Or the app from andrew huang (i forgot the name sry) a friend of mine is using it and its really nice to get into music production!
@@LANDRmusic you guys should do an android daw vs iOS daw roundup, because while I'm android fan boy, music creation seems to be where it's at on iOS, they even have a velocity sensative touch screen
FL Studio Mobile is perfect for mobile work. Literally took care of my mobile needs perfectly!
Is there any way to get fl studio free??
I like LMMS, but in my experience VeSTige is super buggy and some VSTs flat out break.
How is this video 3 years old
Reaper is amazing. I plan on paying for it. I have it behaving like ableton with drum racks, layered and split keyboard presets. runs like a charm on my dead laptop (Linux on a flash drive). i love the ability to customize every action, and to save configuration files, as well as track templates, etc...
It supports plug in right?
@@fx_1513 yeah
You can fully customise the UI aswell. Reaper is the programmers dream of DAWs. If you know how to write code or where to download others you can do so many things in reaper that other daws can’t dream of doing.
3:28 While that's true for LMMS if you stick to the stable channel, there are nightly builds that allow you to record from a MIDI device. I can't guarantee those are available for Windows though since I'm using Linux
amazing! for 2024! and you did this two years ago! are you nostradomus?
Great Reviews But There are Some Other Daws also which are Free Like Presonus Studio One Prime, Magix Music Makers which are Awesome...You should Include Them Also...
I will go back in time and edit the video to include them.
@@LANDRmusic That's Great..Thanks a lot for the information...
prime is a nice taste of the other versions for workflow but too many limitations for a serious contender.
@@christophertodman yeah I got prime because I saw it in a video like this and it looked like the best option. But when I got it I realized how limiting it was. Like you can't even use plugins
@@softbleach487In fact, it is possible to use 3rd party Vst in Studio Prime even if the soft has limitations. You can watch some videos on YT explaining how to add your own VST's and it works well.
*REAPER* = ❤
❤💛💙💛💜
Interesting, because the gui is my favorite part in waveform
Thank You I Really Need This
i like mixcraft more than reaper. worth the price.
Celery's pretty good in a sauce. I haven't had celery in awhile so might get some for a tomato-meat pasta sauce.
Cakewalk by Bandlab is the best
It really is great.
It's hard to use
Anything I’ve tried using that was band lab always SUCKED. Now, maybe if you’re trying to make digital sounding, corporate mass produced things where you just sit there cutting and pasting snippets together, then yeah, I guess I can see where someone might say it makes booty cheeks clap
But if you’re trying to actually record instruments that you’re actually playing, definitely look elsewhere
@@youngj.c5690I found band lab to be very difficult to use myself. I think it’s because they go cheap with most of it by providing an “okay” DAW and offering all these room sounds and effects that aren’t all that. But they failed to take user efficiency into account.
It’s still not nearly complicated as an operators manual for a firmware driven synth by moog. Those bastards… I swear they make their shit as complicated as they possibly can just to make players discouraged in an effort to weed them out. Doing that might be connected to the value of their instruments increasing
Maan is confusing and hard caustic the best
the drama at the end kept me going
had an rp.500 that came with cubase back then. Wish I could find it now. Still cakewalk seems fine for recording your solos once in a while
Wow working! Thanks a lot bro
You missed out - You and Johnny need to try Acoustica Mixcraft
i previously used audacity to clean up some audio for an advanced phonetics project 😭 didnt even realize it was a daw 😭😭😭
thanks a lot BRO you saved my life
this just gave me the idea to mix lmms with audacity...
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
Awesome!!
I am using ardour and zynewave podium free
Serato studio is great
lmms is pretty gnarly
It's one of a kind.
Ive been trying to use LMMS but after seeing that one guy make something 10x better than I ever have in about 10 seconds, I believe its time i learn how to make music, however you do that (what is it even called?)
Thanks a lot! It works great, I downloaded and installed it but why it's missing the Overlay option in Tools - Video Editing? Is there any additional patch?
Heh heh heh - yeah and AYE to Cakewalk by Bandlab....but i will only sequence using TTS instruments first BEFORE any intention to replace that TTS track with some awesome FREEBIE Kontakt instruments, especially the Alpine Project Orchestra, for instance
cakewalk, familiar name, from the early 90's, very old.
Which one of these is the closest to Audacity? -I do all my pre-production in Audacity because it's SOOO easy to use, but one SERIOUS drawback of that DAW is that you CAN'T RECORD MORE THAN TWO CHANNELS SIMULTANEOUSLY!!!! I'm using Reaper for tacking right now, but that DAW is a nightmare, if you ask me -The most counterintuitive thing I could ever imagine someone creating... EVER...
Great video, I just had one question. Why are you holding celery in the thumbnail? xD
muchas gracias, it is working
I use cakewalk and I love it, it's designed to suite my workflow and the interface was created for my analog thinking work process
do you really need to join a discord to use it?
One od cakewalk mistake is no audio edit, graphically underdeveloped
I use Samplitude Music Studio, whilst not free it can normally be bought for less than £50.00. It does everything I need so even though I get offered an upgrade to their pro version at a good price every now and then, I stick with this. It has quite a lot of instruments but I tend to use only the drums with midi as the rest of my recording is guitars and voice so I can't comment on them. I have tried all the others in your video but found they all had some annoying features, some very annoying.
"I hate you"
My absolute favorite part.
you forget the free version of Studio One .... its totaly free and the limitation is, that you can't use 3 party plugins (but you can get this cheap as add on)... of course it is without the Mastering-Section (not Mastersection) from the pro version and it has not all of the major plugins from the other versions, but all you need for a good production is in. Unlimeted tracks, midi and waves as well, send and busses.
Great point, thanks for letting us know! If we do an update in the future we'll put it in.
CONCLUSION PLS
Cakewalk left me in disappointment. For no particular reason, it refuses to work with my audio sources and drivers. No, they aren't outdated and I am using Windows 10. I spent 45 minutes even searching for answers on it and it doesn't look like it's just me experiencing it. Whatever I would do, there would be no audio. Cakewalk is very driver-sensitive.
the UI for LMMS is an utter nightmare. I use it in Linux. Too many windows. Too much clicking to do stuff. I have carpal tunnel syndrome, so that's a dealbreaker. I like Reaper, and haven't paid for it yet, but plan to. My favorite is Ableton, but I don't have a windows computer right now.. I can't load a lot of my fav VSTs in Reaper, tho, I have a rare linux distro, so I have to use Linux LMMS to play my fav VSTs, record loops and export the audio to arrange in Reaper, since arranging in LMMS is a grave chore...
No panning on the mixer... You have to load a plugin just to pan... Very ineffective
serato is a good free daw has a lot of built in instruments plugins samples and kits
Ahh... I had paid for a full version of FL Studio, hence the question is now off the table.
Cakewalk is absolutely great if you really don't want to spend on a DAW.
Not that I regret paying for FL or anything.
LMMS is unfinished not ready for anything.
If I had the money I'd hire a programmer to finish it up.
It's taking way too long to implement any feature there, at least getting VST plugins to work.
Yep. If you know you're going to be committing to it, spend the money! Otherwise, if you're just getting started a free daw is the way to go.
How is LMMS unfinished? I've never had any trouble getting VSTs to work on it.
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I'm confused.... You say to look no further than Cakewalk (for Windows users) but then you say Reaper is the Holy Grail. Please explain.
Lol
You missed it
Studio one prime is free...💛
AHHHH
thank you bro op
Waveform free vs Reaper? Which one is best for podcasting?
thanks
What DAW for Windows is the closest identical one to Garageband that we can get for us Windows users?
Probably LMMS although it's not exactly the same
Bandlab ?
Mixcraft
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I've never used anything ever, but I want to learn to make music. I feel like I will never know where or how to start
Nice Video. Also funny af
Appreciate it!!
You missed Studio One prime.
Gotta catch em all.
What part of FREE do you not understand?
Is it possible to produce hard dance/ Hardstyle with garage band?
I remember paying for SONAR like ten years ago...
Is Cakewalk compatible with my Zoom Livetrack L 12?
Reaper=+++++++++++ , i tried version 5 , then i paid version 5 , and i was not able to resist to V6 so i paid and i am a happy Linux version user.i AM USING ALL FREE STUFF ,synth , soundfonts , orchestral...
nice lava lamp
best part of the video
cakewalk is very confusing to use, it has so many features but so confusing for a complete begginer like my, damn i cant even start recording
I can definitely relate to that! If you're only recording, I would recommend Reaper!
I just downloaded Cakewalk to record a simple guitar melody as my backing track. Fiddled with it for almost an hour now and didnt manage to record a single note...
I have a mac but it won't allow to me to download garage band :(
Ah yeah you might have to update your operating system.
there is a lot of good free vst instruments, only is necesary the vst support.
reaper is not free, and I think is the best of all the DAWs, even paid daws.
trial versions don't count because of the limitations, I think cakewalk is the best free DAW.
Other DAWs like ableton, fl studio, bit wig are funny, and good for some kind of music, but have limitations.
to make music of any genre I think Reaper or Studio One are the best, I don't know pro tools and logic.
Bro predicted 2023
you missed podium free
Does anyone know of a free DAW that accepts evolution MK-461C? Thanks
MPC beats is no slouch either.
Definitely forgot that one. Darn!
Ardour is like me online dating- silent after 10 minutes...
youre too funny, very entertaining
Thanks so much!
Do you search these daws on Google?
Really great compilation. But what kinda bothers me is, that you said there is no opportunity to save your project in the FL Studio demo. You can, but you can't open it unless you have any full version of it.
Thanks for pointing that out!
Reaper is the best and a beast
Some of them either aren't really free as claimed, or in most cases, don't even work!!!!
I've been trying to find a decent one for a while now after my 4 track stopped sounding decent & tried audacity. Audacity sounds ok. I'm actually fine with how it sounds. BUT. If you multitrack, which you do if you actually play your instruments, aligning tracks - or having them in time, in sync, whatever - is near impossible!!!! It's ridiculous.
Waveform 11