Digital music is trending in making EDM, Trance, Electro, and Future bass, etc. a genre of music, and the DJs are well paid in this industry.
How to make this kind of music!
Well you need to know about the digital audio workstation.
A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing, and producing audio files. Regardless of configuration, modern DAWs have a central interface that allows the user to alter and mix multiple recordings and tracks into a final produced piece.
Here is a list of some of the famous digital audio workstation software used by some popular artists like Martin Garrix, Zardonic, and Boi-1da.
#1 Presonus Studio One 4
| Original author(s) | Matthias Juwan, Wolfgang Kundrus |
| Developer(s) | PreSonus |
| Initial release | 27 September 2009; 10 years ago |
| Operating system | Windows, Mac OS |
| Available languages | English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese |
Studio One 4 was designed with ease of use at its core. For ten years now, it has seamlessly combined the time-tested and proven recording studio model with today’s beat- and loop-oriented production process—so you can bring musical ideas to sonic reality more quickly than ever before.
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An efficient, single-screen interface houses an unlimited number of tracks, intuitive editing tools, and advanced virtual instruments. Spend your precious time creating music instead of wondering what to click next. Studio one doesn’t dictate how you work or what you work on.
Studio one is your creative companion from start to finish. The Start Page provides what you need to kick start your creative process—open projects, set parameters, and check for updates and tips. From there, the Song page is all about recording, arranging, editing, and mixing your music with a complete set of virtual instruments, effects, and groundbreaking arrangement tools.
Then, assemble and master your music in the Project Page. Even better, the Project and Song pages are linked so if you need just that one little change in your master or stems, switch to the Song page, tweak, and mix back automatically to the Project.
No other program accomplishes the goal of such an effortless transition as you move from the initial creative inspiration to the finished, mastered production.
#2 Cakewalk SONAR
| Developer(s) | Cakewalk |
| Stable release | Sonar Platinum / 19 October 2017; 3 years ago |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Digital audio workstation |
| Written in | C++ |
Cakewalk is the leading developer of powerful and thoughtfully designed products for the modern musician. These products include award-winning digital audio workstations and innovative virtual instruments.
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Millions of musicians worldwide—including Grammy and Emmy®-winning producers, composers, sound designers, and engineers use Cakewalk products daily to produce audio for the professional music, film, broadcast, and video game industries.
Sonar's features included:
- Record and manipulate an amount of multitrack digital audio limited by hardware only
- Record and manipulate MIDI data
- Apply any DirectX special effects, such as reverberation and delay
- Automate the process of mixing audio
- Use virtual instruments, such as software: synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines
- Connect to other multimedia applications via Rewire
- Some versions included a 64-bit mastering suite
Each version of SONAR is packed with tools and features used by professionals every day. With SONAR Home Studio, you have everything you need to get started in music production.
When you're ready to take your music to the next level, load any SONAR Home Studio project into SONAR's Artist, Professional, or Platinum versions.
#3 FL Studio
| Original author(s) | Didier Dambrin |
| Developer(s) | Image-Line Software |
| Initial release | December 18, 1997; 23 years ago (as Fruity Loops) |
| Operating system | Mac OS, Windows |
| Available languages | English, Dutch |
| Type | Digital Audio Workstation, Proprietary ( non-free ) |
| Written in | Delphi |
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. FL Studio has been used by hip hop and EDM DJs such as Martin Garrix, Avicii, K-391, Zardonic, Boi-1da, Seven Lions, 9th Wonder, Metro Boomin, Alan Walker, Southside, Mike Will Made-It, Musata, Dyro, Madeon, Slushii, Afrojack, Basshunter, Frasigan and Porter Robinson, among many others.
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FL Studio (until 2003 known as Fruity Loops) is a digital audio workstation developed by the Belgian company Image-Line. FL Studio features a graphical user interface based on a pattern-based music sequencer.
The program is available in four different editions for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, including Fruity Edition, Producer Edition, Signature Bundle, and All Plugins Bundle.
Image-Line offers lifetime free updates to the program, which means customers receive all future updates of the software for free after a one-time purchase. Image-Line also develops FL Studio Mobile for the iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.
#4 Propellerhead Reason
| Original author(s) | Reason Studios (formerly Propellerhead Software) |
| Stable release | 10.4 / 24 May 2019; 7 months ago |
| Operating system | Mac OS, Windows |
| License | Proprietary |
| Type | Digital audio workstation |
| Written in | C++, Objective-C (Mac), Lua |
Reason is a digital audio workstation for creating and editing music and audio developed by Swedish software company Reason Studios (formerly known as Propellerhead Software). Reason 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.
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Bring Reason’s synths, instruments, effects and sounds anywhere you want with the Reason Rack Plugin. Your favorite Reason instruments can now be used in your favorite DAW, complete with the free routing and great sounds you’d expect from Reason.
Reason 1.0 was released on November 22, 2000. The program's design mimics a studio rack into which users can insert virtual devices such as instruments, effects processors, and mixers. These modules can be controlled from Reason's built-in MIDI sequencer or from other sequencing applications.
#5 Ableton Live
| Developer(s) | Ableton |
| Stable release | 10.1 / 28 May 2019 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS |
| License | Proprietary |
| Type | Digital Audio Workstation |
| Written in | C++ |
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.
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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.
Ableton Live is a digital audio workstation for Mac OS and Windows. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Ableton Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing, recording, arranging, mixing, and mastering, as shown by Ableton's companion hardware product, Ableton Push.
It is also used by DJs, as it offers a suite of controls for beatmatching, crossfading, and other different effects used by turntablists, and was one of the first music applications to automatically beat match songs. Live is available in three versions. Intro, Standard, and Suite. The current version of Live is "Ableton Live 10".
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