
Once you’ve recorded your performance you can then edit the audio, add effects and mix it all down as a track or song. It’s great for recording bands, musicians and singer-songwriters. The Digital Audio side will let you record sound from a microphone like you imagine studios would do.

A DAW will usually enable you to do a few things. A DAW is your main piece of recording software and stands for Digital Audio Workstation, which is not a great description of what it does.
