Fedora Commercial DAWs
Introduction
If the Open Source DAW Ardour, do not fill your needs, you have 2 choices for commerial DAWs with great Linux support, that work great with Fedora.
Cost
Reaper
Reaper cost $60 for a personal use license and $225 for a commercial use license. There is no functional difference between the 2 licences, only the use-case. You can try Reaper for a unlimited time periode, but you well get a request to buy, every tine you start Reaper but else there is no limitation.
Bitwig Studio
Bitwig Studio come in 3 editions
- Bitwig Studio Essentials (99 EUR)
- Bitwig Studio Producer (199 EUR)
- Bitwig Studio (399 EUR)
The main differences is the number of include content like instruments, effects, modulator and sample packs you get with the release, but there is also som functial limitaions on the cheapest version.
There is a 30 day trial version available. Compare Features here
Installation
Reaper
Just download the Linux installer here unpack it and run the install-reaper.sh shell script in a terminal, your have the choice to install it in /opt/REAPER or in ~/opt/REAPER. You also have an option to create and GUI Launcher Icon. 
Bitwig Studio
Bitwig studio is available as a flatpak on flathub Install it with yumexor another software manager the support installation of flatpak from flathub. 
Features
Reaper
Reaper is a great DAW with almost endless posibillities for customization and tweaking for a workflow that fit everybodys need. There is a large commution that have made a lot of great resources free of use. Reaper contains a lot of included effect but no real instruments besides a simple sample player and a very primities tone generator, so if you are into creating music with virtual intruments you have to get some external plugin to start creating some beats. For recording audio from real intruments, it is a powerhouse. the Learning curve is a steeper, because of the endless number of options and ways to customize and extend Reaper.
Bitwig Studio
Bitwig Studio is a more traditional modern DAW foXund on windows/Mac, like Ableton, FL Studio, Logic that comes with intruments, effect and samples out of the box, so you can just start making beats without needing extra resources, the ceapest version is a little limited with the included intruments, to get the best instrument you have go to the producer or the full version. It has a more gentle learning curve, but there is a more limitted option to configure it, if it dont fit your ways of working.
Conclusion
Personal, I use Reaper because, I like to be able to customize it to fit my need and have invested a lot of time to learn it. I only make music for fun and have no plan to take it to a more professional level, so i don’t want to spend to much money on it. Both DAW are great an work great on Linux and don’t feel like Linux support is a second class citizen. It is very nice that so great product exist for Linux user and it takes a lot of developer ressources to make such great products and even if I prefere FOSS software, I have no problems paying for great software and It is very important to support companies make such great software that runs on Linux, both FOSS and commercial software.
