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A digital audio workstation developed by the Swedish company Reason Studios. Reason is used for creating and editing music digitally, by emulating a rack of hardware synthesizers, samplers, signal processors, sequencers, and mixers.

FL Studio is digital audio workstation developed by the Belgian company Image-Line. With FL Studio you can compose, arrange, record, edit, mix, and master music for any music genre. The software was first released backing in 1997 and has seen major updates and growth over the years. Today, FL Studio is the go-to tool for many music creators, especially in the EDM genre.

Audacity is an free and open-source, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from other media. Import, edit, and combine sound files. Export your recordings in many different file formats, including multiple files at once. Audacity supports 16-bit, 24-bit and 32-bit. Sample rates and formats are converted using high-quality resampling and dithering. The easy and intetive workflow of Audacity supports editing with cut, copy, paste, delete and unlimited sequential undo/redo.

Pro Tools is a music software for macOS and Windows that allow musicians and producers to create audio with up to 128 audio tracks. Pro Tools includes 60 virtual instruments with thousands of sounds, effects, sound processing, utility plugins, 1 GB of cloud storage and 75 individual plugins.

Bitwig Studio is a digital audio workstation for Linux, macOS and Windows. Bitwig Studio can be used as an instrument for live performance while also being a great software for composing, recording, arranging, mixing, and mastering music. The software provides the feature you have come to know and love in other popular digital audio work stations like Ableton Live and FLStudio, yet improved upon many and elevated them to a new level.