Based on our record, Reaper seems to be a lot more popular than Qtractor. While we know about 79 links to Reaper, we've tracked only 2 mentions of Qtractor. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Free and opensource DAWs: Ardour is the "standard" traditional DAW, but I recommend checking out Zrythm or Qtractor as you might prefer their workflows. Source: almost 2 years ago
With that money you could get: - Reaper ($60) - Renoise ($75) - Radium (Pay what you want) - Ardour (Pay what you want) - LMMS (Free) - Waveform (Free) - Qtractor (Free) (Linux only) (There are probably others, but I don't know everything lol). Source: about 2 years ago
Almost free. https://reaper.fm It's cheap enough for almost anyone to buy and you can play around with the free version. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
I'm a big fan of Reaper (reaper.fm). It's technically not free, but $60 is totally worth it, plus you can trial it full featured, indefinitely. Source: 6 months ago
If you use the Linux port, you may want to use Yabridge to load Windows VSTs in a transparent way. http://reaper.fm/ https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
My recommendation would be Reaper from reaper.fm Reaper is used in the video game industry due to it's customization, routing, batch processing and scripting capabilities. It's very customizable and has small CPU footprint. Source: 10 months ago
Audio only? Don't torture yourself. Reaper's based on the early Vegas platform, easy to learn and use, and one of the most powerful audio editing tools out there: http://reaper.fm/. Source: 10 months ago
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