Luna DAW From Universal Audio

[Jim Fogle]

Universal Audio has a Digital Audio Workstation, DAW, available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms.

There are free and paid versions. The free version includes a few extra tools while the paid version includes many more tools and plugins. Learn more here: https://www.uaudio.com/luna.html

[Bud Angelotti]

This looks really good - and the price is right= Has anybody tried this and how would it compare to say audacity?

[Jim Fogle]

I haven't tried it but here are a few videos about Luna:

https://youtu.be/wAyz3mVkfnM?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/TJKd5JRa0dA?feature=shared

Audacity has one glaring deficiency that prevents the program from DAW consideration, it doesn't work with midi files. Many midi files exist and importing a midi song file into a song project can give you a big head start. Because midi is data, song characteristics like key signature, transposing and tempo are easier to manipulate in a midi file than audio.

[Charlie F. Brown]

I use Luna primarily and I really enjoy it! It does its best to emulate analog workflows, so if that’s familiar to you it may be an easier option than others. I have one of Universal Audio’s interfaces (Apollo x4) and together it’s all really a good experience.

[Jim Cohen]

Audacity has one glaring deficiency that prevents the program from DAW consideration, it doesn't work with midi files.

IMHO, an even more glaring deficiency (unless they have recently rectified it) is that it does "destructive" rather than "nondestructive" editing. In other words, once you have snipped a piece of a file and deleted it, it's gone forever and you can't get it back. With every other DAW that I know of, you can very simply pull the edge of the file out and the entire rest of the original file is still available to work with.

[Richard Sinkler]

Audacity is horrible. Luna is not much better. Hated both of them.