Mac equivalent

[jkoseattle]

I'm proposing teaching a class in digital music production at a local school, and CbB is the obvious platform of choice for students because it's both full-featured and free. However, the school is balking because they are all Mac and are having a lot of trouble emulating Windows on VMWare, and therefore might decide to switch to all Mac instruction (most of what they teach is Adobe stuff). So to keep this ball rolling I'd like to offer some Mac alternative to CbB that I could use for teaching. I would need it also to be both full-featured and free, and just as importantly, it would need to be something I could use my Cakewalk chops to get up to speed on quickly (meaning it can't be a totally different workflow).

Suggestions?

[Starship Krupa]

The obvious of course is GarageBand. How "full-featured" do you mean?

The only freeware cross platform DAW I can think of at the moment is Tracktion 7, which has a quirky interface that might make it not the best choice.

[jkoseattle]

It does not need to be cross-platform, but ideally it should be free or very inexpensive, and it should behave, in most regards, like Cakewalk. Because that's what I know. 

I don't know GarageBand, but let's tackle it the other way. What kinds of important functionality can I do with CbB that I can't do with Garage Band?

[kennywtelejazz]

OP , you may want to take a look at Studio One 4 Prime  .

https://shop.presonus.com/Studio-One-4-Prime

 

Kenny

 

Edited December 25, 2019 by kennywtelejazz

[Jim Fogle]

Here is a Wikipedia comparison chart that lists many popular software packages , what operating systems they use and has a feature comparison chart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_digital_audio_editors

[pwal³]

(not sure why my suggestion got downvoted?)

maybe the school should consider using pcs (as well as macs if necessary) this would not only save money but give a more balanced idea of the real world for the students, and you could still use cakewalk

[Feral State Sound]

REAPER is not free but the trial is fully functional and not restricted when the period ends (like WinRAR)

[pwal³]

which other daws do you know that are cross-platform? choose one of those