@lislegaard a list of tools

• #Ardour (best for recording, overdubbing, editing any audio, effects, diy mastering. i don't use it for sequencing and there's a part for triggering loops a la live, but never explored that part)
• plugins: @x42 's complete suite, especially compressor, and peak limiter, CALF plugins (where i can make them work), many included ACE plugins are great, i use H/L pass filter.., and Harrison's XT plugins (NOT FLOSS)
• #SuperCollider (sound design, livecoding, custom cue player for stage, sometimes full compositions, connecting to Processing via OSC etc...)
• #mhwaveedit - small simple single wave editor - fades, cropping, gain, etc that lets you press ctrl+s to simply save it. very fast, a bit quirky about controls, but very stable
• #ffmpeg - commandline powertoolbox for any conversion (extremely fast conversion to wav) - WinFF is nice GUI for ffmpeg (my SO uses it) (sometimes also flac, opus, lame CLI programs)
• #sox - another commandline tool to manipulate audio - i often use it to make stereo files mono quickly
• yt-dlp cli downloader of pretty much any av content online
• mixxx - amazing dj mix program, really stable and well sounding with great choice of filters and other fx. and great support for controllers
• notfloss: i still use Renoise a lot for quick beat-centered stuff