
Harrison Mixbus, Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio, Tracktion T7/Waveform 8, Magix Music Maker Premium/Samplitude Studo, Ardour, Reason Essentials, etc. I agree some are not being mentioned much, but deserve a good look for fit and pricing budget. Then you throw pricing, support, and update frequency in there to make it real fun. None of them are Best, or better than all others. Make a notes sheet of what like don’t like about each daw, etc. my suggestion, spend quality time as focused as can on options and take time to watch a few videos of them in use. One can appeal to you or another, but it doesn’t mean that others won’t ever, or can/can’t fit someone else better. Now you can drag unprocessed audio onto GUIDE and DUB tracks, make sure Mixcrafts playhead is set properly before the audio you want to capture, click Capture Audio in VocAlign, and press play in Mixcraft. All so different, like music/songs are themselves. Click fx on the VOCALIGN submix track, add VocAlign, and click Edit to open the VocAlign plugin window.

I own most of them, have tried many others mentioned too. This is turning into an absolute nightmare.They are all good daws! I’ve been swimming around and messing with different daws for years now as new home studio hobbyist. A message kept popping up saying the plugin couldn't be loaded and I had to go back in and manually re-add them all. I mean I have a 5950X with 32 gbs of ram, there is absolutely no reason why I should be having this issue! Yesterday I saved my project and tried to open to it back up and about 10 tracks with different Shred Guitar plugins all stopped working. I have to literally have the plugin menu open for that track when I mix down else it does it and then it just happens on another part of the song with some other effect. If it's not the plugins muting, I have tons of loud pops and cracks in my mix. I even started cranking my buffer size to 2048 when I edit and I'm still having issues. And the mix down goes right in the trash cause it usually has glitches and I don't know if the effect made it in or not.

Then I'm always afraid to save my file in fear it will still be messed up when I restart, so I end up losing a bunch of progress.

It's always a game of which one is going to mute.

Izotopes Mouth De-Click is a huge one, my SmartEQ constantly does it, sometimes IZotope Mastering Essentials. Sometimes out of no where but usually when I try to mix down. I'm constantly, and I mean constantly having plugins mute themselves. I mainly just record rap music so I was able to circumvent or deal with some pauses and glitches on mix downs here and there, but recently I have been trying to help my friend mix his tracks which have layers and layers of drums, guitars, vocals, etc. I'm having the same issues and it's really ticking me off.
