Top 5 Music Production Software | Ultimate Guide 2020

Since way back in the 90’s, when home recording first started, People have always argued about “which one is best Daw?”, And as the options continually improve, the debate rages on.
For the present post I’ve made a top to bottom guide covering the best DAW’s of 2018.

So here they are, in no particular order, starting with…

1. Presonus Studio One 3

studio one 3 Long known in the audio industry for making quality hardware for music studios at very affordable prices.

Presonus as of late chose to include their own DAW line too,
So with the assistance of a few formal engineers from Steinberg Cubase, Presonus released the main variant of Studio One in 2009. 

• Nine robust Native Effects plug-ins
•Nearly 1GB of loop and sample content to get your creativity rolling

•Studio One 4 operates on 64-bit operating systems only.

Please use the following link to check out each version.

Presonus Studio One Prime (Free Download)
Studio One professional

2. FL Studio
Formerly known as Fruity Loops, but after a run-in with Kelloggs, who thought people may confuse it with their breakfast cereal.
Over a decade ago, Image-Line officially changed the name of their classic software to FL Studio.
FL Studio is a complete software music production environment or Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Representing more than 20 years of innovative development it has everything you need in one package to compose, arrange, record, edit, mix and master professional quality music.

FL Studio is now one of the world’s most popular DAWs and is used by the most creative artists like Avicii and Martin Garrix.
It is a top choice for Hip-Hop, EDM musicians and DJ’s.

Fl Studio is very easy to Use Software due to its:

• Spread sheet like Playlist
• flexible Piano roll
• extensive automation capabilities

 

Please use the following link to buy this daw.FL STUDIO 12 PRODUCER EDITION

3. Ableton Live

Live is fast, fluid and flexible software for music creation and performance. It comes with effects, instruments, sounds and all kinds of creative features—everything you need to make any kind of music.

Create in a traditional linear arrangement, or improvise without the constraints of a timeline in Live’s Session View. Move freely between musical elements and play with ideas, without stopping the music and without breaking your flow.

One of the things that makes creating with Live so fluid is the ability to change the tempo and timing of any audio, in real-time, without stopping the music. We call this warping. Use warping to mix and match loops from a variety of tempos, fix timing errors in recorded performances, or radically reshape any audio into new sound design directions.

 

Please use the following link to buy this daw.

ABLETON LIVE

4. Propellerhead Reason

Reason is easy to get started with, yet as deep as you want it to be. Create, compose, mix and finish your music–Reason will help you along the journey, from inspiration to mixdown.

Reason is a digital audio workstation for creating and editing music and audio developed by Swedish software developers Propellerhead Software.It emulates a rack of hardware synthesizers, samplers, signal processors, sequencers, and mixers, all of which can be freely interconnected in an arbitrary manner. Reason can be used either as a complete virtual music studio or as a set of virtual instruments to be used with other sequencing software in a fashion that mimics live performance.

Please use the following link to buy this daw.

REASON 9

5. Steinberg Cubase

 

Cubase is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by Steinberg for music and MIDI recording, arranging and editing. The first version, which was originally only a MIDI sequencer and ran on the Atari ST computer, was released in 1989.

Cut-down versions of Cubase are included with almost all Yamaha audio and MIDI hardware, as well as hardware from other manufacturers. These versions can be upgraded to a more advanced version at a discount.

Their greatest claim to fame was their introduction of VST plugins in 1996, and VST instruments in 1999, both of which became industry standards for many years after.

 

And even today, Cubase has managed to somehow remain just as relevant as they have been for the past several decades.

Please use the following link to buy this daw.

Steinberg Cubase

 

What’s Next?

Once you’ve chosen a DAW for your studio, next comes the difficult process of actually installing it.

Just know that a little frustration here is typical, and it does NOT mean your DAW sucks.  That’s just how they are.

GOOD LUCK