Free Digital Audio Workstations (DAW’s)

DAW’s are audio processing software with lot features, like multi track recording from different midi devices, processing it with virtual instruments (VSTi’s), effects and finally creating mp3, wav outputs, and the big commercial products includes, Cubase, Logic, Reason, Sonar, ACID pro etc etc.. but do we really need them ? unless we are into commercial music production, we can get our work done with some good freeware DAW’s out there, personally I haven’t tested the big products ( have only read the features ) so from a hobbyist, pianists point of view, I would like to share some good Digital Audio Workstations

1 ) Reaper

Though it’s not free, but it let you try full version for as long as you want with a 5 second delay (splash window) every time it starts, it has excellent midi controls and VSTi support

www.reaper.fm

2 ) LMMS (Linux Multimedia Studio )

This one has an interface like FL Studio, LMMS supports VSTi plugins,

http://lmms.sourceforge.net/

3) SONY ACID Xpress (Requires free registration)

A free 10 track version of ACID pro, is useful for midi track recording

http://www.acidplanet.com/downloads/xpress/

4) F L Studio (Demo)

with demo version we can’t save projects, but can process audio, beats and export as mp3 or wav

http://flstudio.image-line.com/