New DAWs should be developed. As time passes we have better technologies and programming tools, so it should get easier to build better DAWS.
However, DAWS are extremely complex systems, with a lot of functionality. It's extremely unlikely that anyone, user or developer, can under everything it's supposed to do. Impossible for people to develop a mental map of the whole thing. Even very difficult for the various parts to fit together.
The complexity won't go away. The need to interface with many poorly and inconsistently written plug ins is hard. And writing a flexible audio and midi routing system, that keeps everything in time and uses plugin latency times and can still send midi to the fourth plug in in a chain and keep time... Ridiculousy difficult.
So yes people should build. But it's always going to be hard and expensive in development time.
However, DAWS are extremely complex systems, with a lot of functionality. It's extremely unlikely that anyone, user or developer, can under everything it's supposed to do. Impossible for people to develop a mental map of the whole thing. Even very difficult for the various parts to fit together.
The complexity won't go away. The need to interface with many poorly and inconsistently written plug ins is hard. And writing a flexible audio and midi routing system, that keeps everything in time and uses plugin latency times and can still send midi to the fourth plug in in a chain and keep time... Ridiculousy difficult.
So yes people should build. But it's always going to be hard and expensive in development time.
Statistics: Posted by _leras — Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:24 pm
