Digital Audio Workstation. Used for recording MIDI tracks from e-drum module(s) and mixing audio tracks.
In alphabetical order
- Ableton Live Lite 9 (link)
- Ardour (link), Open Source but binary version requires donation.
- Audacity, Open Source; can't run VSTs
- Cubase;
- Cockos Reaper, free 60-day trial
- DarkWave Studio (link), free
- LMMS (link), free; details <= recommended
- Mu Lab (link), free; crashes
- PreSonus Studio One 3 Prime (link), the free version can't run 3rd party plugins
- Pro Tools First, free. The free version can (only) save 3 projects in the cloud.
- Rosegarden, (link) free but Linux only, allows editing musical notes/scores. Windows port available (link).
- Sonar, Cakewalk (link), $
- Tracktion T5 (link), free;
- Usine Hollyhock (link), no more free version.
- Wavosaur (link), free;
- Zynewave Podium Free (link); the free version only allows one MIDI input
Some good free ones are listed here.