Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. Record, edit, and mix on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
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Cubase AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Audio Editors
The best Audio Editor alternative to Cubase is Ardour. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try ComposeYogi or Cakewalk. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Cubase and many of them are Audio Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Audio Editor alternatives to Cubase are FL Studio, Ableton Live, Bitwig Studio and Logic Pro.
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97 Ardour alternatives
99 FL Studio alternativesA complete digital audio workstation featuring professional music creation tools for mixing, mastering, editing, and sequencing. It includes a responsive piano roll sequencer, lifetime license updates, visualizer plugins for video creation, and multi-touch support for advanced graphical interface navigation.
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- Online
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- Android Tablet
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91 Ableton Live alternativesMusic software facilitating idea creation, editing, and performance with Arrangement and Session Views. Enhanced interfaces, improved waveforms, and great EQs provide intuitive and detailed music-making for studio and stage experiences.
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51 ComposeYogi alternativesA free, open-source music composition tool for beat-making, loops, and arrangements — built with Web Audio, WASM, and modern web tech.
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Docker
59 Bitwig Studio alternativesBitwig 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.
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- Flathub
- Flatpak
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121 Cakewalk alternativesCakewalk, 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...
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- Free Personal
- Proprietary
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- Windows
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85 Logic Pro alternativesComprehensive studio app offering advanced DAW and MIDI tools, a creative interface, powerful software instruments, plugins like Beat Breaker, full mixer capabilities, and seamless integration with Mac and iPad for professional-sounding mixes.
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- Proprietary
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- Mac
- iPad
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98 Zrythm alternativesZrythm is a digital audio workstation designed to be featureful and easy to use.
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- Freemium
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- Flatpak
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95 Avid Pro Tools alternativesPro Tools makes music creation fast and fluid, providing a complete set of tools to create, record, edit, and mix audio. Get inspired and start making music with a massive collection of plugins, instruments, and sounds.
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59 Studio One alternativesStudio 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...
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Bespoke is a software modular synthesizer. It contains a bunch of modules, which you can connect together to create sounds.
81 Qtractor alternativesQtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is GNU/Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures for...
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It's great. Complete tool!