They could have just made it a round 15 and tacked Cakewalk onto there 
 
But never mind. Nice to see my beloved old OctaMED and current favorite Reaktor on this list. 
 
http://www.factmag.com/20...t-shaped-modern-music/

Some interesting choices/omissions as expected.  It also appears that nothing has been created since 2004, ya?

only ones i own are reaktor (rarely use) and garageband (ipad was free and so was garageband).
 
What about dyamite cowbell ??  how else can you "get more cowbell ???"  especially when you have a "feevah"
 
JR
 
 

craigb
Some interesting choices/omissions as expected.  It also appears that nothing has been created since 2004, ya?

that's a FACT (Jack!)

[pet peeve] Reaper is not free. [/pet peeve]

The only things lists like these demonstrate is how truly and completely clueless the people who compile them are. Omitting Cakewalk while including virtually everyone else is bad enough from our perspective, but um, no Gigastudio? Really?

Considering what else they did include, I would have expected to see at least one incarnation of a Cakewalk sequencer. The omission of Opcode Studio Vision is also strange.
 
OTOH, as much as I love Logic and even though I think it's the best thing since sliced bread, Steinberg's Cubase alone would have covered the basis for most of the other timeline-oriented sequencers. But since they included Logic and Garage Band, they have no excuse not to include Sonar, Vegas, Samplitude and all the others.
 
Where's Acid and where's Gigasampler? - these are the two reason why many Mac-based studio started integrating PCs into their environment.
 
ReBirth would have made much more sense than Reason, imho.

ReBirth is a LOT of fun.

I think reason got the nod over rebirth because rebirth was far more specialized. Reason basically built upon rebirth and created a product far more useful to mainstream and even other underground genres aside from techno.

Imo acid would be among the biggest omissions. Many now standard looping features were influenced by acid, including Garageband and Ableton.

Welp, to me it's about as informative and useful as tits on a boar hog. It's basically just a list of DAWs and some other stuff thrown in for good measure. Pitiful. The two most important "pieces of software" shaping modern music were the midi spec and software that drives every ADC/DAC. Harrumph.