Daw

Digital Audio Workstation, a computer-based system for recording, editing, mixing, and producing audio. DAWs integrate multiple functions including multitrack recording, MIDI sequencing, audio editing, and effects processing in a single software environment.

Acronym for Digital Audio Workstation, emerging in the 1990s as computer processing power made software-based audio production viable. The term distinguished these comprehensive digital systems from earlier hardware-based recording setups.