Software

Reaper

Reaper is a cost-effective and highly customizable digital audio workstation (DAW) used by musicians, audio professionals and artists. Its key benefits include:

1. Affordability: Professional-grade features at a budget-friendly price.
2. Customizability: Tailor the software to your workflow with customizable shortcuts and themes.
3. Efficiency: Runs smoothly on a wide range of computer setups.
4. Multitrack Recording: Excellent for multitrack recording and editing.
5. Plugin Compatibility: Seamlessly integrates with third-party VST and AU plugins.
6. Cross-Platform: Available for both Windows and macOS.
7. Active Community: Access to a vibrant user community and support forums

A 60 day trail is available at https://www.reaper.fm/ or you can buy discounted license.
(although reaper is worth the license, users have reported the evaluation period to be infinite, so... just try..) 

Learn 

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free signup voor an e-book on podcast editing in reaper

 

Ableton Live

Ableton Live is a popular digital audio workstation (DAW) known for its real-time performance capabilities, intuitive interface, extensive sound library, and Max for Live integration. Its benefits include:

A 30 day trail is available at https://www.ableton.com/en/trial/ or you can buy it with a student or education discount.
Licensed Abelton live is installed & available on most Blackbox workstations for HKU students.

Add this to send OSC from Ableton to any other software https://www.showsync.com/tools#livegrabber 

Learn 

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Audacity


Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free, open source software.

download: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/ 

getting started: 


more help: https://support.audacityteam.org/ 

Beware! Using Audacity to edit your source files is DESTRUCTIVE meaning any adjustments made to your file are permanent. Therefor, good practise is to work in a copy of your original file.

Adobe Audition

Audition is a comprehensive toolset that includes multitrack, waveform, and spectral display for creating, mixing, editing, and restoring audio content. This powerful audio workstation is designed to accelerate video production workflows and audio finishing — and deliver a polished mix with pristine sound.
Part of the Adobe Creative Cloud. Works seamlessly with Adobe Premiere a.o.

Learn the basics on the adobe website 
or watch this to do your first audio recording & edit

Less useful for  creating music but awesome for video & podcast:
for example: 
- Easily remix music to fit your video
- repairing your recorded audio