There are dozens of different DAWs to suit different budgets, levels of experience and styles of songwriting and music production. And when it comes to choosing the best DAW (or DAWs) for you, the good news is that you’re not short of choice. To do that, your most important tool as a songwriter-producer is your DAW – your Digital Audio Workstation – of choice.
Today, you can make pro-quality music on a laptop in your bedroom using decent software that’s completely free or state-of-the-art software that costs a few hundred dollars. These were the Dark Ages of music production, a grim and barbaric era that ran roughly until the turn of the millennium. Once, producing professional-sounding music meant shelling out hundreds or thousands of dollars hiring a professional studio – or much more building your own.
