Bitwig Studio also supports Linux and comes with a large collection of sound content. It's nice to have an all-in-one package for Linux that's in the same league as the other well-known DAWs for Windows and macOS.

If don't want to pay full price for Bitwig, wait for their summer and winter specials which happen every year. They also have an educational discount.

Bitwig uses a subscription model for upgrades, but if you end your subscription, you retain access to the last version available during the subscription (plus minor updates to that version) for life. When you buy Bitwig, it includes a 1 year upgrade subscription. When you're on the subscription, you also get access to a rotating selection of content from Bitwig's partners (https://www.bitwig.com/circle/) in the form of license keys, but unfortunately, many of these partner tools don't work with Linux.

I also use Bitwig. I switched from Ableton because it was cheaper. It's objectively a better DAW from a technical standpoint.

But I have to say the sounds and plugins it comes with are not on par with ableton, some presets really have me scratching my head and it took forever until they gave us a decent convolution reverb. For the longest time I was not able to get a simple sine-wave out of the synthesizers it comes with (wtf?). It's also worth mentioning that back in the days this DAW was promoted with a feature that lets you collaborate with others over the network, now 10 years later there is no more mention of this feature and I think most forgot it was even planned. Recently they tried to sell you stock-plugins for a premium but back-pedaled quickly. That is just ridicoulous after I sunk hundreds of dollars in their update plans.

That being said I still recommend it.

> I was not able to get a simple sine-wave out of the synthesizers it comes with (wtf?)

It's not uncommon for synths (even hardware ones) to come without a sine wave. In fact some of the most famous ones don't have it (hello TB-303, SH-101, Minimoog and many more...). Of course, now that we have the grid, we can have whatever waveform we like. Also FM4.

I personally use Bitwig. It's probably the most "think like a programmer" type of DAW. But man it's expensive.

Expensive ? Of course your mileage may vary, maybe where you live it's a lot, but this is a professional tool starting at $99 with the full version being $399. Given what it does, it's effectively given. Back in the days, I can remember paying a lot of money just for RAM expansion on an Akaï sampler. These days, for music tools, we're all spoiled kids.

It's $99 to own. Not a subscription/month.

No, it's $399. The killer features of Bitwig are modulation and Grid, and you will need the $399 version for that. $99 version is basically a generic DAW with a modern UI but less built-in instruments than other DAWs. Of course it's still useful... but to be honest using the $99 version is hardly "using Bitwig".