MultitrackStudio

Multitrack Studio has one major advantage over other DAWs - it's very straightforward. While other DAWs sometimes feels like you are looking at space shuttle controls, MTS it very intuitive with small number of controls to choose from. When you don't know how to use something hover over it with cursor, press F1 and voila - you get very well written documentation open on exact chapter what you need.

It has built-in general MIDI sounds. These are not most realistic ones but are actually very usable (just keep in mind that these sounds works only on some range of notes similar to real instruments). It also have Hammond-like Wheel organ, chromatic (Sampler - which can play soundfont files) and drum (Matrix Sampler) samplers. You can make whole arrangement using just MTS built-in sounds.

It also have all types of effect types you can possibly need. I rarely load effects VSTs to MTS as everything I am looking for is already there.

It has obviously some downsides too - some things are not possible at all, working with MIDI patterns is very limited, it's basically one man show and it's almost unknown, so there is no big community to ask questions (it's not that a problem as you can figure out a lot of things just by looking at UI and reading help file).

It's not industry standard. But if you just want to do some multitrack recording and you don't want to waste your time by trying to understand some convoluted software UI this can be your tool.