Pro Tools
The studio standard, and almost certainly more DAW than a podcast needs.
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Pro Tools is the audio industry's default session format. If you send work to a professional studio, a mixer, or a post house, they can open a Pro Tools session without a conversation.
For podcasting that matters only in narrative or broadcast work, where the show moves between hands. For a weekly interview edited by one person, everything Pro Tools does well is invisible and everything it costs is visible.
The free Intro tier exists and is genuinely limited. Artist is the realistic entry point, and Studio is where the plugin set and track count stop being a constraint.
Use it if you already speak it. If you are choosing a first editor, Reaper costs sixty dollars once and will not make you learn a session-sharing workflow you do not need.
Sources for this review
- Official product website · Checked 2026-08-27
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