Under talked about DAWS

[Coxy]

The main players you hear about a lot.
Sonar
Logic
Cubase
Live
Bitwig
Reason
Reaper
Studio One
FLStudio

The ones you don't hear so much about
Samplitude
Digital performer
Podium
Even ProTools to some degree

List some more fully featured ones ...

[koshal]

The main players you hear about a lot.
Sonar
Logic
Cubase
Live
Bitwig
Reason
Reaper

The ones you don't hear so much about
Samplitude
Digital performer
Podium
Even ProTools to some degree

List some more fully featured ones ...

Studio One and FL Studio should def be under your main players list imo.

[cryophonik]

I don't see Adobe Audition discussed very often. I have it as part of our Adobe CC subscription, but rarely use it. Whenever I do use it, I usually find myself thinking that I really should spend more time with it.

[Coxy]

The main players you hear about a lot.
Sonar
Logic
Cubase
Live
Bitwig
Reason
Reaper

The ones you don't hear so much about
Samplitude
Digital performer
Podium
Even ProTools to some degree

List some more fully featured ones ...

Studio One and FL Studio should def be under your main players list imo.

You're quite right, added.

[Chapelle]

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[Robert Randolph]

The main players you hear about a lot.
Sonar
Logic
Cubase
Live
Bitwig
Reason
Reaper
Studio One
FLStudio

The ones you don't hear so much about
Samplitude
Digital performer
Podium
Even ProTools to some degree

List some more fully featured ones ...

Highly depends on who you talk to and where you hangout.

I never hear people talk about FL, bitwig, Reason or Sonar outside of KVR. I do hear about PT, DP and Samplitude quite a bit though.

Probably 95% of the people I know use PT.

[chk071]

The people i know in real life, who fiddle with audio software (not more than a handful though), use Cubase. FWIW.

[starflakeprj]

I guess Maschine could be added to the "secondary" list.

[koshal]

The main players you hear about a lot.
Sonar
Logic
Cubase
Live
Bitwig
Reason
Reaper

The ones you don't hear so much about
Samplitude
Digital performer
Podium
Even ProTools to some degree

List some more fully featured ones ...

Studio One and FL Studio should def be under your main players list imo.

You're quite right, added.

Cool. To add to the list of less popular / less talked about, in addition to what everyone else said, I'd add anything from the Sony lineage (Acid Pro, Vegas, Music Studio). I believe they were all purchased by MAGIX but still exist today and are available for purchase, although not sure how much ongoing development they have. It's interesting cause Acid Pro was kinda a game changer back in the day and was a very popular DAW at one point in time. They really fell into oblivion though.

The other one I can think is MPC 2.0 software because they just added support for audio tracks so I guess that technically makes it a DAW now. Still new and not talked about as much (yet) so that would probably fall into the less talked about category.

[fedexnman]

I think Mixcraft and Renoise need a mention too ...

[flugel45]

Multitrack Studio Pro. Rock solid stability, been around for years. The dev, Giel, keeps the updates coming regularly and is very attentive on the forum. There's also an iPad version -- and if I had an iPad I'd most certainly be using the app, knowing Giel's skills as a programmer.

The only reason I can think of why MTS Pro doesn't have a bigger user base is the lack of a mixer view. The GUI-graphics are fairly 1995-ish as well. But that's part of its simple but solid, no-frills philosophy.

Mixcraft is another solid DAW. Version 8 recently added VST3 and Melodyne ARA support (with Melodyne Essential 4 bundled). This one is growing by leaps and bounds.

[inkwarp]

hmmm.. i think Podium is great but such a shame it's development seems to have ended. it has one of the best GUIs and if there was a current version i would probably get it. i also agree that Samplitude is weirdly overlooked... it's an incredible program, as powerful as apps like ProTools perhaps more so. it still has the amazing 'object oriented ' editing...
however, whereever i look for up to date help and tutorials all i get is tumbleweed...
i would also mention EnergyXT

[starflakeprj]

hmmm.. i think Podium is great but such a shame it's development seems to have ended. it has one of the best GUIs and if there was a current version i would probably get it. i also agree that Samplitude is weirdly overlooked... it's an incredible program, as powerful as apps like ProTools perhaps more so. it still has the amazing 'object oriented ' editing...
however, whereever i look for up to date help and tutorials all i get is tumbleweed...
i would also mention EnergyXT

EnergyXT is also pretty much "dead".

[gremlinmoon]

When Renoise does get talked about, to the average person it sounds like:

We need to degauss the ventral nitrogen control system because of a proton surge in the graviton stabilizers, dump the ventral heuristic bubble energizer, restart the ventral electron feed and replace the aft osmotic microfilament splitter and reroute power through the tritonic phaser control circuit to kick-start the matter/antimatter shell. 01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100011 01110010 01100001 01111010 01111001 00100000 01101101 01110101 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110010

[chk071]

When Renoise does get talked about, to the average person it sounds like:

We need to degauss the ventral nitrogen control system because of a proton surge in the graviton stabilizers, dump the ventral heuristic bubble energizer, restart the ventral electron feed and replace the aft osmotic microfilament splitter and reroute power through the tritonic phaser control circuit to kick-start the matter/antimatter shell. 01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100011 01110010 01100001 01111010 01111001 00100000 01101101 01110101 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110010

So it's basically like Reaper?