For those looking for FREE DAWs (Windows, Mac, Linux)

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Here are a few links:

Follow the links for screenshots & download info:

Acoustica Basic Edition by Acon Digital (Windows)
Audacity by Audacity Team (Linux, Mac, Windows)
Music Editor Free 2012 by MEFMedia (Windows)
ocenaudio by ocenaudio (Linux, Mac, Windows)
Wavosaur by The Wavosaur Team (Windows)
Ardour by The Ardour Team (Mac, Linux)
MuLab Free by The Mutools Team (Mac, Windows)
KRISTAL Audio Engine by some dude named Matthias (Windows)

Extended list (mostly for LINUX users): Eisenkraut, QuickAudio, ReZound, Sweep, WaveSurfer.

If one of these doesn't do it for you, you're gonna have to make a monetary investment. :listeningmusic:
 
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Music Editor free is a great one. If only it allowed multi-tracking...

One thing I have noticed about the music editor, is that everything you loaded into the software sounded excited. I've noticed when you import a track into there, it sounds sometimes better, sometimes worse (but usually worse) than when you play the track on iTunes.
 
PRHunt said:
Not sure how you missed Ardour?
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I added Ardour to the list. Thanks!

CrowsofFritz said:
Music Editor free is a great one. If only it allowed multi-tracking...

One thing I have noticed about the music editor, is that everything you loaded into the software sounded excited. I've noticed when you import a track into there, it sounds sometimes better, sometimes worse (but usually worse) than when you play the track on iTunes.
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I've never used Music Editor... that's strange that something like that would happen, though. I guess it was changing the bitrate as it was importing tracks?

jaynm26 said:
Is this a real thread?
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:facepalm: :drunk:
 
elbandito said:
I've never used Music Editor... that's strange that something like that would happen, though. I guess it was changing the bitrate as it was importing tracks?
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I think it might have added it's own compression. Try it yourself if you really want to know. Sometimes I wish I could use that effect on some of my tracks!
 
elbandito said:
I added Ardour to the list. Thanks!
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Can you make an amendment to your listing? Ardour is not produced by Harrison Consoles. It is produced by an open source group headed by Paul Davis. Maybe just attribute Ardour to ardour.org

Harrison Consoles use Ardour as the DAW engine in their commercial Harrison Mixbus product. In return, Harrison contributes code and bug fixes to Ardour, and I think there is some financial contribution as well.

Harrison Mixbus adds a proprietary DSP plugin to Ardour which provides channel strip facilities modeled against their analogue console designs. There's compressors, EQ, tape saturation, K-meter to name a few of the goodies.

Mixbus 2 is now provided as native executables for Windows, OSX and Linux.

I believe that Ardour 3 will provide a Windows port as well.

Paul
 
PRHunt said:
Can you make an amendment to your listing? Ardour is not produced by Harrison Consoles. It is produced by an open source group headed by Paul Davis. Maybe just attribute Ardour to ardour.org
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Thanks Paul. I fixed it.

Does anybody else have suggestions of free DAWs to add to this list? Maybe I'll make a list of free plugs next, although that list could get ridiculously long. I think it's a good idea to have this kind of information in one easy-to-access place, to *hopefully* stave off all the repeated questions for free this-or-that.
 
Mulab 3 is an AWESOME free DAW. You're only limited to 4 tracks in the free version I believe, but the plugs are awesome, they allow for SOME third party plugs, and it's some good eye candy.
 
bumping this sucker back to the top in the hopes that a mod will sticky it somewheres.
 
CrowsofFritz said:
Music Editor free is a great one. If only it allowed multi-tracking...

One thing I have noticed about the music editor, is that everything you loaded into the software sounded excited. I've noticed when you import a track into there, it sounds sometimes better, sometimes worse (but usually worse) than cialis online when you play the track on iTunes.
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I totally agree.. You are absolutely right..
 
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Thanks very much for the list I think I'll have to look through some of the ones I haven't heard of before.
 
You're welcome! I'm sure there are tons of ppl around here that would benefit from a list like this.
 
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