Reply To: Free Sonar Tier

[Peter DeLegge]

On June 20, 2025 superabbit said

Hot off the presses.

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/85283-sonar-202506-overview/

Some interesting new features even aside from the free tier.

They finally included a pane for the BandLab Sounds Collection in Sonar’s Browser, that’s a good idea, long overdue.

The list of features the premium version has that the free version lacks is pretty short.

-Erik

I agree. As I wrote earlier, while I strongly believe that this product is failing and will be eliminated/replaced within a year, I’m going to out together a list of best free DAWs and, while I haven’t used this, I will try it out for the purposes of creating the list, but based on everything we see, and my experience with Cakewalk by BandLab, for a free DAW, it easily deserves to be on the best list, and, I would think, at the top of the list, if we’re purely basing that list on functionality.

I’d love to get everyone’s input — their take on the best free DAWs today for a list Im maling. I’d like to put something out very soon. I want LM to have the best curated list of high quality free tools you can find.

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