If you have a MacBook and you’re thinking about making your own music, GarageBand is a great DAW to get started on. Here are some of my favorite free programs that I’ve come across, and why I love them. So before you drop that cash on stuff you don’t even know if you’ll use yet, it might be a good idea for you to try bringing some musical ideas to life in various free applications and programs first. But still, for those of us just getting started, it’s not always easy to know which digital audio workstations (DAWs), pieces of software, or plugins are worth paying hundreds of dollars for. The prevalence and quality of home recording software available today has made recording music at home so much cheaper than it was 30 years ago. In the gallery ahead of you we’ve rounded up 20 excellent free and open source applications worth investigating and experimenting with in 2015.+ Recording and mixing your songs at home? Grammy-winning artist Kimbra explores how to harness the full creative potential of your music in her new course! As free software advocates like to point out, we’re talking about free as in “free speech” not just free as in “free beer”. More importantly, some free software doesn’t involve restrictive end user license agreements. This is what the term “open source” is all about. Yes, developers of such software make the source code freely available to any and all to do with as they like. You can re-distribute it however you like, or even tap into the code and change it to suit your needs.
Some free software is free as in “freedom”, meaning not only that it (probably) costs nothing but, more crucially, that you’re free to do whatever you like with it.
Freeware is provided at no cost - so it is free in that sense – but are you free to do anything you like with it? Can you re-distribute it without the developer’s permission? The answer is usually no. The main difference is in the definition of the word “free”, which has multiple meanings.
There are important distinctions between what we call “freeware” and what is known as “free software”, “free and open source software” or “free, libre and open source software”. Who doesn’t love free software? Still, you might be unaware that “free” doesn’t always mean free in the sense you might expect.
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