More examples of Digital Audio Workstations

The more basic DAW looks like this. The hardware interfaces are in the "rack" below the monitor which are typically connected to physical devices such as a keyboard, reverb units and speakers.

Although software reverb processing is readily available, the best reverb units may arguably be offered as a physical device dedicated to reverb processing.

There are more visually elaborate systems that show the virtual nature of DAWs. In this picture, the system is portraying the fact that it handles a sampled piano.