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It does things differently to most other DAW's- it is best suited to 'tinkerers'.
I suggest Studio One to most people these days who are looking for a 'it just works' vibe.
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You can try Studio 1 Prime for free to get the feel of it, but will want artist once you've got to grips with it fir the extra functionality.
Very intuitive, drag and drop editing and everything is just obvious.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youPretty intuitive, but with some great (professional) YT vids for support too.
I saw some advice somewhere that said that the biggest investment you're going to make in any DAW is your time, so before you do that it's worth having a look at a few.
I can't make comparisons because I've always been able to achieve what I want and haven't felt the need to try alternatives.
There's a balance to be had. Something like Cubasis/Garageband etc will give you the ease of use, but may not have enough features for you. If you want something more fully featured (but still easy to use) at a low price then something like Presonus Studio One might be a good bet. You can start with the free version and move up to the next tier pretty cheaply when you need more features. Everything I have seen and heard of Studio One has been positive.
Alternatively, for a similar price, you can get the full version of Reaper, and I know people who have had great success with it and swear by it. It's not too difficult to get recording with. There are a ton of features that you can delve into as you grown in confidence, but you don't have to if you're happy just doing simple multitrack recording.
You didn't say whether you were on a PC or Mac, but if on a Mac, I would personally go with GarageBand and upgrade to Logic later. The projects are compatible and for the (not-cheap but not-unreasonable) cost of Logic you get a lot for your money. I think I paid for it about 10 years ago and I still haven't had to pay for an upgrade yet.
Familiarity is everything, especially for those of us who do this as a hobby and not for 8 hours a day (although my wife would argue that it sometimes looks that way). I started with Cubase so long ago that we didn’t even have computers. We had to do all the signal processing using log books, an abacus and a slide rule. It took us ages to finish projects. When I wanted a cheap DAW to load onto a laptop for field recording (I didn’t want to mess around swapping dongles) I tried Reaper. I could set it up to capture tracks easily enough but to do anything more was going to be a steep learning curve and wasn’t worth my time. I now use Cakewalk alongside Cubase and, to me at least, it seems far more intuitive.
If you don’t already ‘know’ one DAW then it can be beneficial to pick one that someone else that you know is using. If you can’t get that one-to-one support then have a look at which DAW has the best online tutorials.
I tried everything I had worked on in Ableton and Reaper, groups, envelopes, routing, . . Reaper is closest to Cubase and suits my Brain. Garage Band I can't even do the basics. To be fair I haven't watched any tutorials but people say very intuitive.
+1 for Reaper from me.
Except maybe Pro tools which I really didnt get on with at all.
Not free really. Just free to try. Are you being a naughty boy?