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Re: DAWproject: Open exchange format for DAWs

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Bitwig is quickly becoming my favorite DAW. Big fan of how they develop software.

Bitwig knocked it out of the park coming out the gate with Linux support. Can't say I'm surprised though, it's made by the original team that made Ableton Live.

On Linux it steals/hogs the hardware MIDI, so you can't connect to it with other JACK MIDI apps.

Re: DAWproject: Open exchange format for DAWs

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post #9

Bitwig is quickly becoming my favorite DAW. Big fan of how they develop software.

It’s honestly one of my favourite bits of software these days. Feels very respectful and responsive. I tired logic and ableton. Both are great tools but a bit janky.

Never though I’d say I love a Java program but they did a really really good job.

Re: DAWproject: Open exchange format for DAWs

#58
post #33

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At this layer of note information, fact is the data will be either sent to a MIDI device or a plugin as a MIDI event, so you might as well keep it in the native format and not convert to a frequency.

MPE exists, and can handle microtuning of pitch. MIDI 2.0 supports per-note pitch bend. Old multitimbral MIDI synths can be used in an MPE-like fashion by using the one-note-per-channel and pitch bend trick. Modular synthesizers (and virtual modular synthesizers like VCVRack) use control voltage directly, which has no built-in assumptions about how or if the voltages are quantized. Microtonal music, or even just plai…

Idunno, half the instrument VSTs I have seem to support some form of microtuning or alternate tunings...

Re: DAWproject: Open exchange format for DAWs

#59
post #3

XML, why? And... 99% of the issues will be around plug-in management.

XML is fine. Schema validation is really handy more often than you’d think.

You can do schema validation with other formats too.

For example you have JSON Schema, that many people experience through Kubernetes.

Re: DAWproject: Open exchange format for DAWs

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That's an interesting point. I don't get much value from art personally (not that i don't see why people value it, i do!) , so the idea of AI generated art isn't disgusting to me. Music however.. i adore music. A big (but not essential) thing i love about music is the story that got the artist to that point. Pain, joy, emotion is transferred. Yea, often it's not essential so maybe AI Music has a place in my life, but…

... music is art, no?

In English speaking world "art" can be used in two ways, as a synonym for "visual art" or to mean really any art (including music, cinema etc).
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