While the concept of the ‘best’ DAW is a hard one to swallow for many (everyone works in different ways, after all), you’ll more than likely have a favourite. And our friends at MusicRadar are on a mission to find the most popular recording app of all…

The shortlist is as follows: Ableton Live, Apple GarageBand, Apple Logic, Avid/Digidesign Pro Tools, Cakewalk Sonar, Cockos Incorporated Reaper, Image-Line FL Studio, Magix Samplitude, Propellerhead Reason/Record, Sony Acid, Steinberg Cubase and Steinberg Nuendo.

You can click on the above links for full reviews or vote for your favourite DAW here.