The list should be updated to include
Cakewalk by Bandlab (formerly
Sonar). Not sure why, but I clicked "other".
For those who are lacking background and education on current DAW's, Cakewalk was maybe the very first DAW ever, going way back to DOS days in the 1980s. Then somewhere in the mid-90s, they added audio to the MIDI. I cannot recall when, but a very long time ago it has had STAFF view which is a must for educated musicians to be able to read the music at a glance, as one of the recent former posts stated.
And here's the best part: The company that bought Cakewalk from bankrupt Gibson is "Bandlab", who also bought Rolling Stone magazine, then they re-released it for FREE, and they hired the original Programmers when they took it over, whose paying jobs now are to simply fix and update the program on a continual basis. I think they update the program every month or two at the most. They are truly responsive to the end-users and fix bugs as quickly as you can imagine.
Their forums site is very excellent and respond to all users (novice and experts) immediately.
The program comes with a bunch of free VST's that you can choose to install or not.
The pioneers of the DAW, both MIDI and Audio, have almost every imaginable feature you can imagine, and as so many people exclaim, it's very intuitive. You can download a regularly updated PDF Reference Manual from their Forums site. Bells and whistles galore. And on the Forums site are a long list of
excellent Video Tutorials.
You should register an account before downloading and installing. Small price to pay for the best and FREE DAW available.
Only known possible caveat - Windows only (still runs on Windows 7, even though it says it does not support Win 7).
Download and register here:
https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk
Forums link (Use the same name as you used when registering):
https://discuss.cakewalk.com/