Music Production
Studio One is an advanced digital audio workstation for Mac and Windows featuring a bevy of powerful composition, editing, mixing and mastering tools on top of standard multi-track DAW features. Highly praised for its intuitive chord track that lets users drag and drop both audio and MIDI content in for seamless chord detection and editing, the DAW also features an adept arranger track for easy composition and navigation, scratchpads for experimentation, flexible, multi-touch compatible mixing console and much more.
Cubase is a computer program for music production/recording. The program offers recording, producing and mixing of sounds in order to make music production for distribution on CDs or the internet.
Cubase is a series of MIDI, music sequencer and digital audio editing computer applications (commonly known as a DAW - Digital Audio Workstation).
Logic Pro lets you translate musical inspiration into professional productions. A range of powerful, easy-to-use features puts sophisticated tools at your fingertips, and complete surround support lets you make incredible, immersive music.
Pro Tools is one of the highly-renowned DAW software out there. Done your studio with this powerful utility that brings your beats to life, records vocals and instruments with ease, and allows you to write your songs, or help with any studio requirement one might have.
UI and installation Interface-wise, Pro Tools has a classical DAW layout, equipped with a hefty and rich toolbar. Installing Pro Tools might seem a bit difficult to get done, but it is rather easy. The actual software installation is self-guided, but first, you must create both an Avid and iLok account.
For music enthusiasts... Pro Tools is an encompassing collection of plugins, loops, samples and instruments sounds, and effects, and it is still expanding. Virtual instruments sounds can be found and deployed by the thousands. It's almost impossible to not find your favorite instrument beats, but if that happens, you can cover that with tools like GrooveCell, SynthCell, Boom, Xpand, and more — allowing you to create tunes by yourself.
When it comes to hardware, Pro Tools seems to be compatible with any audio interface. Lots of intuitive MIDI tools like MIDI Real-Time Properties are made available for creating and experimenting with one's tracks.
...and for other industries Of course, music is not the only professional area Pro Tools is handy in. Any industry like movies and video games can profit from what the app has to offer. You can design all kinds of sound effects, breathtaking atmospheres, or voice-over performances.
As long as you have the required set of skills and get around the features of Pro Tools, you can accomplish most audio-related tasks.
To summarize Pro Tools stays true to its name and provides professional software for pro activating in any domain where sound is of the essence. Big names and faces are recommending the program already, but if you are not yet convinced, this free trial should be enough to convince you.
FL Studio (originally known as FruityLoops) is a full-featured Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) offering a complete range of professional tools for everything from audio editing and beat creation to advanced arrangement, composition, mixing and mastering. Sporting a fast, high-tech UI that runs at native speed, the DAW defaults to a relatively simple drum pattern sequencing interface while more advanced features are just a click or keypress away.
One of its most notable and distinguishing features, FL Studio is available through a lifetime license where a one-time purchase grants users continued updates forever after. The license is available across several editions providing access to an increasing number of bundled plugins with the mid-range tiers covering everything needed for pro quality music. The top tier includes the complete line of high-end synthesizers and effects developed by Image-line.
FL Studio is also highly recognized for several other features like its intuitive and responsive piano roll sequencer, fully vector-based UI with multi-touch support that extends the already adept mixer with full screen scaling and the ability to easily adjust multiple track levels simultaneously when mixing and mastering. The DAW also includes a unique visualizer plugin to create ultra-high resolution, 60fps music videos using an easy template-based approach powered by a highly configurable, modular visual system capable of producing practically any visualization imaginable.
Live is software for creating musical ideas, turning them into finished songs, and even taking them onto the stage.
With two views - the classic Arrangement View, where musical ideas are laid out along a timeline, and the unique Session View, where you can improvise and quickly experiment with musical ideas - Live is a fast, fun, intuitive way to make music.
What's new: The latest version of Live comes with everything from workflow enhancements to audio improvements. Simpler has been completely rebuilt with a new interface, warping, slicing, and new analog-modeled filters, which have also been added to Sampler, Operator, and Auto Filter. Improved waveforms and meters give you a better look at the details of your music. And a new technology called Link works under the hood, allowing you to instantly play in perfect sync with multiple instances of Live as well as a growing number of iOS apps.
Create: No matter how you start your music, Live offers a workflow that will help you get going. Record audio or MIDI from any source. Mix and match loops and samples from any tempo. Work with a huge range of included sounds, instruments, and effects.
Finish: Live helps you get from a collection of musical ideas to a finished song. With extensive editing workflows, great sounding EQs and compressors, great looking meters and waveforms, and fast, flexible exporting options, Live gives you everything you need to get music done.
Perform: Take your music out of the studio and onto the stage, with Live’s powerful performance workflows. Since Live handles keeping everything in time, you can play hardware or software instruments, trigger loops, process audio from other musicians, and focus on making music.
REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for Windows, Mac and Linux, offering a full multi-track audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering tool set.
REAPER supports a vast range of hardware, digital formats and plugins, and can be comprehensively extended, scripted and modified.
FEATURES:
- Efficient, fast to load and portable. Can be installed and run from a portable or network drive.
- Powerful audio and MIDI routing with multi-channel support throughout.
- 64-bit internal audio processing. Import, record to, and render to many media formats, at almost any bit depth and sample rate.
- Thorough MIDI hardware and software support.
- Support for thousands of third-party plug-in effects and virtual instruments, including VST, VST3, AU, DX, and JS.
- Hundreds of studio-quality effects for processing audio and MIDI, and built-in tools for creating new effects.
- Automation, modulation, grouping, VCA, surround, macros, OSC, scripting, control surfaces, custom skins and layouts.
