Bitwig Studio

Founded by ex-Ableton developers, Bitwig Studio takes everything good about Ableton and pushes it further with a modular sound design environment called The Grid. Every parameter can be modulated by anything. The multi-track comping, per-note expressions, and clip launcher are all best-in-class. It's the DAW for sound designers and experimental producers who find Ableton's architecture too rigid. Linux support is a huge differentiator — it's the only professional DAW that runs natively on Linux.