Audiophools

"USB MIDI" is a relatively recent introduction and is often very confusing to people buying what they think are MIDI compatible devices. The confusion exists as there are various MIDI standards for both the physical interface and the software & data formats. A USB MIDI device can conform to one of ...

MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface . It was created to allow different electronic musical instruments to be connected to each other in a standardised way. Prior to MIDI, not many instruments had any kind of interconnect and the ones that did often used an analog control voltage in...

Cakewalk is a DAW released by Bandlab Technologies.
It was previously called Sonar, by Cakewalk.

Bandlab have released it as a completely free program.

The Cakewalk web site is here: https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk

LMMS is a totally free, open source DAW

Get it here: https://lmms.io/

Reaper is a DAW by Cockos Incorporated.

The web site for it is here: https://www.reaper.fm/

Reason is a DAW by Propellerhead Software,

Their web site is here: https://www.propellerheads.com/en/reason

ProTools is the name for a range of DAWs by Avid Technology, Inc.

Thei web site: https://www.avid.com/pro-tools

Garageband is a music creation program & mobile app by Apple Inc., with versions for iphone, ipad and Macs etc.

The Mac version is here: https://www.apple.com/uk/mac/garageband/
And the mobile app here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/garageband/id408709785

The Ableton name covers a range of DAWs by Ableton AG.

Their web site is here: https://www.ableton.com

Studio One is a DAW by PreSonus Audio Electronics, Inc.

Web site here: https://www.presonus.com/products/Studio-One
Presonus also make audio interfaces and other equipment.