Jim Dooley’s DAW Recommendations

This is list of some popular recording software that you can use to play my drum loops & tracks. I know more about some than others, so this is my attempt to give you as much info as I can and help you decide what DAW will fit your needs.

I'd love to hear your thoughts about any of these programs. If you have a cool tip, complaint or whatever, please leave a comment on one of my review pages. To leave a comment you will can login using your facebook account, open id or create a new account here.

Rating Free or Pro My Reviews Official Site
90
Professional

Reaper is a great choice. I downloaded their trial version and played around to see what I could do. It has just abou...

Reaper Reaper
90
Professional

I’ve been using Cakewalk’s software for a while now. I started with Cakewalk Professional 7 and upgraded every year o...

Cakewalk and Sonar

Cakewalk

87
Professional

If I was in the market for new recording software Ableton would probable be my first choice. Ableton has really cool...

Ableton Ableton
75
Free

Audacity is free, open source DAW . It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating s...

Audacity Audacity
75
Free

Acid Xpress is a fully functional free version of Sony's ACID Pro. Acid was one of the first programs to stretch audi...

ACID XPress Acid Planet