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None of these have dissolved completely; the rotary dial, the keyboard layout, the swappable storage medium still exist, especially in music production hardware.
It just takes a company like Bitwig to come along and show how else these pre-existing interfaces can be modularised and combined, and some iterations of the Push controller[0] to uppend the traditional fingering required to play them.
There is this quote : "To know your future, you must know your past". I agree the cloud/AI combo is revolutionary, but we also need to dig a little deeper into the past to understand what is coming.
Despite (or maybe because of) following this space for more than 20 years, I would love a (good) book on the inner (recent) history of the music software industry (= DAWs/plugins). I fail to find even one book on the subject. Anyone ? There is this quote : "To know your future, you must know your past". I agree the cloud/AI combo is revolutionary, but we also need to dig a little deeper into the past to understand wh…
DAW version control is one of my dreams. If I could have a really tight git equivalent for reaper projects, it’d be so cool. Plugins are, as usual, the biggest barrier there. Doesn’t seem like there will ever be a good way to deal with different people having completely different plugin collections. Unless someone makes “Netflix but for plugins” or something. The other thing I saw the other day that I thought was coo…
TFA starts down an important path - identifying different categories of users - but doesn't really get this quite right IMO. There are (at least) four categories of DAW users: 1. Professionals who are being paid to make music, and for whom time is essentially money. Tools that speed up the production of that music are both financially valuable to them, and also make their overall lives easier (if done right). 2. Musi…
Any recommendations for #3? Particularly with low barrier of entry for kids? Something you can use a midi keyboard and a mic with?
TFA starts down an important path - identifying different categories of users - but doesn't really get this quite right IMO. There are (at least) four categories of DAW users: 1. Professionals who are being paid to make music, and for whom time is essentially money. Tools that speed up the production of that music are both financially valuable to them, and also make their overall lives easier (if done right). 2. Musi…
Any recommendations for #3? Particularly with low barrier of entry for kids? Something you can use a midi keyboard and a mic with?
Before Garage Band, I used Tracktion (I think its now called Tracktion Waveform Free) in the same manner. It's been ages since I used it but if you're a Windows or Ubuntu user I think it'd be worth checking out.
TFA starts down an important path - identifying different categories of users - but doesn't really get this quite right IMO. There are (at least) four categories of DAW users: 1. Professionals who are being paid to make music, and for whom time is essentially money. Tools that speed up the production of that music are both financially valuable to them, and also make their overall lives easier (if done right). 2. Musi…
Any recommendations for #3? Particularly with low barrier of entry for kids? Something you can use a midi keyboard and a mic with?
I'm still getting used to the "new" scene-based model (which is I guess actually pretty old at this point) but it seems mostly unavoidable now that Ardour has switched to it in v7. Though I also think there's a lot of space on the low end of simple sequencers that the tracker renaissance is starting to fill.
ProTools just announced their version too.
And yes, this model is roughly 20 years at this point (Ableton Live started at about the same as Ardour).