His original Discord messages read thus:
- Tracktion 6 is free now
- DAWs less than $100: Cakewalk Sonar Home Studio, which I got free with Computer Music issue 250 at $3.99, is regularly priced at $45. It's pretty good value considering that you get 64 tracks, a proper mixer with routing that works well, VST support (including a bridge for supporting 32 bit VSTs in 64 bit), and the Cakewalk TTS-1 ROMpler that is actually a Roland sound module. However, Gibson stopped development...
https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk
Ok this is also JV's suggestion
Link has been updated
Many DAWs have various versions at different price points, and free trials available. The DAW section of the resource has been completely reorganized to reflect these. The commercial sections were sorted from least to most expensive, using the regular non-sale price. Since it's currently December, quite a few of these are on sale!
Fixed the link for PAPU to include Socalabs' other chiptune plugins and added descriptions for each section of the resources
Tracktion has updated Waveform and released a free version of it!