Cubase Alternatives and Similar Software

LMMS

LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio , which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

• Does not support harddisk recording - only midi or samples Guest • Nov 2015 • 9 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• It has a lot interesting functions. Guest • Mar 2019 Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com

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FL Studio

FL Studio (formerly known as FruityLoops) is a digital audio workstation developed by the Belgian company Image-Line. FL Studio features a graphical user interface based on a pattern-based music sequencer. The program is available in three different editions for Microsoft Windows, including Fruity Edition, Producer Edition, and the Signature Bundle. Image-Line offers lifetime free updates to the program, which means customers receive all future updates of the software for free.

• Cubase is more for the traditional musician, whereas FL is for loop based electronic music. Guest • Oct 2015 • 8 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• It is one of the best DAW on the market. A lot of TOP producers and beatmakers use it in their work. karpovskiipa • Mar 2019 Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet

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Reaper

REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for Windows and OS X, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset. REAPER supports a vast range of hardware, digital formats and plugins, and can be comprehensively extended, scripted and modified. Feature Highlights ----------------------- *Efficient, fast to load, and tightly coded. Can be installed and run from a portable or network drive.

• its more like cubase than other alternatives Guest • Dec 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Reaper is an extremely powerful DAW for its price. Guest • Nov 2018 Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

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Ableton Live

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.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

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Ardour

Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Ardour's intention is to provide digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use. NOTE: Ardour source code is freely available but pre-built binaries are commercial free-libre software: users who download from ardour.

• Opensource, available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, you can import PT projects, create your own model, and use it as a completed DAW for your computer. Enjoy ! Guest • Dec 2016 • 0 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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GarageBand

Welcome to the school of rock. A Mac-sized practice space. Your own recording studio. If you want to learn to play an instrument, write music, or record a song, GarageBand can help — whether you’re a rookie or a rock star. GarageBand is a whole music creation studio right inside your Mac — with a complete sound library that includes software instruments, presets for guitar and voice, and virtual session drummers.

• GarageBand is a very lightweight program compared to professional grade DAWs such as Cubase. Guest • Nov 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial Mac iPhone iPad

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Logic Pro

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.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

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Reason

Reason is a virtual studio rack with all the tools and instruments you need to turn your ideas into music. And it's more than just a set of excellent synths and effects. It's a complete music system. Step into the age of Reason. Reason comes with synthesizers, samplers, drum machine, REX file loop player, professional mastering tools, mixer, vocoder, world class effects, pattern sequencer and more. As many of each as your computer can handle.

• reason isn't like any other DAW NikosKeyz • Jun 2015 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

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AudioTool

Make music online with a powerful set of tools ranging from synthesizers and samplers to mixers, delays, reverb and much more. AudioTool is an advanced, collaborative DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) built for the browser. With the flexibility of modular routing and an ever increasing arsenal of sound generators and effects, musicians and sound designers can create practically any sound they can imagine.

Free Web

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Bitwig Studio

Bitwig Studio is a multi-platform music-creation system for production, performance and DJing, with a focus on flexible editing tools and a super-fast workflow.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

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Studio One

Artists of all levels, from beginner to seasoned professional, will find Studio One a serious alternative to the intimidating, bloated offerings currently considered the standards. It's a groundbreaking music creation and production application for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista/7 that makes audio recording, MIDI sequencing, and audio mastering ridiculously simple right out of the box.

Commercial Mac Windows

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Caustic

Caustic is a music creation tool inspired by rack-mount synthesizers / samplers rigs. Everything is real-time and optimized for mobile devices.

Freemium Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad

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Tracktion

Tracktion is a multi-platform software for music production, with a modern graphic user interface.

Freemium Mac Windows Linux

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Rosegarden

Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.

Free Open Source Linux

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Renoise

Renoise is a contemporary digital audio workstation (DAW) based upon the heritage and development of tracker software. Its primary use is the composition of music using sound samples, soft synths, and effects plug-ins. It is also able to interface with MIDI equipment. The main difference between Renoise and other music software is the characteristic vertical timeline sequencer used by tracking software.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

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Avid Pro Tools

Working with audio files and creating music at a professional level is definitely a job that requires specialized tools as well as a high degree of knowledge in the domain. Among the most powerful utilities that can be utilized for this you will find Pro Tools M-Powered.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

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Cakewalk

Cakewalk, formerly SONAR, is a comprehensive audio software for music composition, audio recording, editing, mixing and mastering. It features a full suite of high quality audio and MIDI effects and instruments and composition tools ranging from drum sequencer and piano roll editor to a sophisticated score composer.

Freemium Windows

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Bosca Ceoil

Bosca Ceoil is all about looping, and designed that way at its heart. Songs are built up from lots of tiny 16 note patterns – the intended workflow is that you loop over these single patterns until you have something you like, then you start making variations. If you approach it this way, you’ll find it’s pretty decent at doing that – but it’s not very good at other things, like say, long melody lines.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Adobe AIR

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Radium

Radium is a music editor with a new type of interface. - Compared to the normal sequencer interface editing is quicker and more musical data fits on the screen. - Compared to trackers, note positions and effects are edited graphically, which should be quicker, provide more vertical space and give a better musically overview. However, despite its unusual appearance, it's a design goal for Radium to be straightforward to use, and easy to learn.

Commercial $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Magix ACID Pro

ACID Pro software is a DAW powerhouse that combines full multitrack recording and mixing, MIDI sequencing, and legendary ACID looping functionality for a seamless music-creation and post-production environment. More creative partner than production tool, ACID Pro software inspires you like nothing else. With its Transparent Technology design, ACID Pro software removes typical barriers to the creative workflow so you can effortlessly transform ideas into real results.

Commercial Windows

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Audio Evolution

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of the main features of Audio Evolution 5: Completely new audio system called 'eXtream'. It features 32-bit floating point processing from begin to end with lots of headroom, flexible routing and is very friendly on cpu usage.

Commercial Mac Windows Android

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Qtractor

Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.

Free Open Source Linux

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Frinika

Frinika is a free (licensed under GNU GPL) complete music workstation software containing sequencer, midi support, soft synthesizers, audio recorder, piano roll/tracker/notation editing and more. The goal of Frinika is to be a complete platform for making music with your computer, using the versatile Java platform to be able to run on several operating systems, and being open source to be able to embrace the best open source technology being available at any time.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Traverso DAW

Traverso DAW is an audio recording and editing program which is very well suited to record a single voice, a band, an ensemble, a whole orchestra or any other source of music! Both the home and professional user will find Traverso attractive, it's clean interface is easy to learn, and enables you to work quickly and efficiently!

• Discontinued Last commit: 2017-10-14 http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/traverso.git/log/ No evident forks on GitHub: https://github.com/search?q=traverso daw

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Waveform

Waveform is a commercial, cross-platform DAW and spiritual successor to Tracktion . With a focus on design and composition, it offers tools to greatly simplify everything from initial inspiration to the final mix. FEATURES - Cross-platform, available for Windows, Mac and Linux. - Sophisticated, inspirational composition tools like Chord Track and pattern generator. - Racks modular environment offers advanced audio/MIDI routing and mixing.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux

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