![]() ![]() If you’re making electronic music of any kind, Live absolutely demands your attention, and the Lite version is a great way to get started, with upgrades available to the higher versions when you’re ready. Live 11 Intro (Mac/PC) includes all the fundamentals of the full-fat Standard and Suite editions, including the Session and Arranger Views, real-time warping and timestretching, VST/AU plugin support, and Drum and Instrument Racks, with reductions made to track count (16 audio and MIDI tracks), the number of built-in virtual instruments (four) and effects (21 audio, eight MIDI), the bundled sound library (around 5GB), and certain areas of the feature list (perhaps most notably ‘Audio to MIDI’). Over the two decades since, Live has become utterly ubiquitous in studios and DJ booths the world over, and developed into a supremely versatile production powerhouse without compromising its trademark zippy workflow and creative emphasis. It’s no understatement to say that Ableton’s Live DAW changed the music production and performance landscape upon its release in 2001, opening up new avenues with its inspiring loop-triggering paradigm, supernatural audio warping engine, and clean, concise interface. Incidentally, although Garageband is the only free DAW in our round-up, we should point out that there are a few other noteworthy gratis alternatives to check out if you’re looking beyond Apple’s own ecosystem or are on PC, including Avid’s Pro Tools | First, Akai’s MPC Beats and Serato’s Serato Studio. ![]() And when you do decide to take your choons to the next level, Logic is one of the finest and most widely used professional DAWs on the planet anyway, so that would be an upgrade well worth making. You can also get it for your iPhone and/or iPad, with project export to Mac via iCloud, and although the whole setup is obviously intended as a gateway to Logic Pro X (which it’s essentially a greatly cut-down version of), that doesn’t in any way detract from Garageband’s genuine viability as a start-to-finish production solution in its own right. Garageband is about as user-friendly as they come, featuring a solid array of built-in instruments, effects and loops, a very capable virtual drummer for realistic beats, Audio Units plugin support, and recording/playback of up to 255 simultaneous tracks. ![]() If you’re a Mac user, you already have free access to what many consider to be the best entry-level DAW money doesn’t have to buy. Here, we’ve brought together what we consider to be four of the best of them, plus one entirely standalone option, any of which could serve as your primary music-making platform for years to come, or become the basis for an upgrade to a more powerful stablemate as and when your needs dictate.Ĭrucially, every one of these DAWs will work perfectly with your EVO audio interface, so whatever combination of form and function you plump for, your recordings will all be captured to their fullest potential, thanks to the EVO 4 and EVO 8’s world-class preamps, effortless Smartgain level setting and pristine sound quality. Although Steinberg, Ableton, Avid, etc… All understandably push their flagship offerings above all else, every vendor’s catalogue includes at least one ‘cut-down’ version of their headline DAW, at a far cheaper price point. ![]()
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