Avid
Pro Tools
Avid halted perpetual sales in 2022 to push the industry standard onto subscriptions, and only brought them back after the backlash.
- Forced subscriptionYou rent it. Stop paying and you lose it.
- Lock-inProprietary formats or cloud storage that make leaving painful.
The exits
SoundCraft
by ArtCraft
A clean-room Pro Tools in Rust, with Edit and Mix windows, ten inserts and sends, and CLAP plugins.
- Status
- Alpha Early and moving fast. Try it, expect rough edges.
- License
- Apache-2.0
A professional DAW for recording, editing and mixing.
- Status
- Stable Mature and ready for daily work.
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Source
- github/Ardour/ardour ↗