SAWStudio
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SAWStudio is a Digital Audio Workstation
. SAW is the acronym for Software Audio Workshop. SAW was one of the first DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) products available for PC at a time when Protools for Mac had virtually all industry market share. SAW's lower price appealed to budget-minded professionals, and SAW quickly found use in production and post-production studios. It was especially popular in the television industry in the early 1990s, often being packaged with a DAL CardD+ soundcard and Music Quest MXQ-32 MIDI interface for a turnkey SMPTE-syncable system. SAW is unique among DAWs in that its engine bypasses much of Windows' kernel. SAW's user-interface is praised by its userbase, but criticized by others, which has limited the software's ability to penetrate what has become a highly competitive market, while it retains an avid cult following. Proponents of SAW extoll it's speed and robustness (infrequent crashing) in particular.
Digital audio workstation
A digital audio workstation is an electronic system designed solely or primarily for recording, editing and playing back digital audio. DAWs were originally tape-less, microprocessor-based systems such as the Synclavier and Fairlight CMI...
. SAW is the acronym for Software Audio Workshop. SAW was one of the first DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) products available for PC at a time when Protools for Mac had virtually all industry market share. SAW's lower price appealed to budget-minded professionals, and SAW quickly found use in production and post-production studios. It was especially popular in the television industry in the early 1990s, often being packaged with a DAL CardD+ soundcard and Music Quest MXQ-32 MIDI interface for a turnkey SMPTE-syncable system. SAW is unique among DAWs in that its engine bypasses much of Windows' kernel. SAW's user-interface is praised by its userbase, but criticized by others, which has limited the software's ability to penetrate what has become a highly competitive market, while it retains an avid cult following. Proponents of SAW extoll it's speed and robustness (infrequent crashing) in particular.