Tracktion Waveform 10 from $119

Now firmly back under the management of its original creators, Waveform continues to shed its ties to ‘the Mackie era’ and has fully returned to its innovative roots. With the business model of yearly buy-once updates being strangely old-hat these days, Tracktion have to make each update worth buying, and version 10 is stuffed with new features of all stripes: creativity, utility and workflow.

Last year’s review of Waveform 9 noted both the moments of genius and frustration that Waveform brings, thanks to the software’s distinctive take. Some