If you are looking for an affordable piece of software for your home studio, try n-Track Studio. For the price this thing has everything.
n-Track Studio is an audio & MIDI multitrack recorder for Windows. A complete recording studio in your PC. Built-in effects include Reverb, Dynamics, Multiband Compression, Echo, Pitch Shift, Chorus Parmetric EQ, Linear Phase EQ & Spectrum analyzer. The program can use third party DirectX and VST plug-ins to process in real-time audio signals in a number of different ways. MIDI tracks can be imported and exported to regular MIDI files, and edited using the built in piano-roll based MIDI editing.
Some of the new features of n-Track 4.2:
- 64 bit mixing and processing option
- n-Track DirectX plug-ins support for 64 bit processing
- n-Track Drums plug-in: drums sampler and drum machine
- Regions of the song where clipping occurred are now highlighted on the timeline axis
- "Scan song for clipping" Edit menu command
- Enhancements to MIDI external hardware control surfaces configuration dialog box
n-Track is available in both 32 bit and 64 bit versions.The 64 bit version runs on x64 versions of Windows and can fully exploit the power of 64 bit CPUs.
I used n-Track before I started using Pro Tools. I loved it. It was very user friendly and easy to use. I would highly recommen this program to someone who's looking for an affordable yet robust software for the home studio.
For more info and to download an evaluation version of n-Track go to their site.
