[LAU] [Bulk] Re: Common DAW session save / import

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 21:25 +0300, David Baron wrote:
> Very cute.
> 
> However, there are no real standards. Each program, opensource or not, has its 
> own system and ne'er the 'twain do meet. So one restricts to one  program, no 
> other choice.
> 
> Microsoft is so big so makes its own standards, its own rules, changes them at 
> will (example rtf), but they are not in the DAW business. Just many programs 
> run on their platform so may use some of their file-structures.
> 
> What if the programs we use here, on this list, were inter-operable? 
> Ardour/Harrison, Qtractor, Muse, Rosegarden, etc. We have more choices than 
> does Microsoft. What if Tracktion (proprietary, now supporting Linux!) were 
> brought on board? I do not think it is so far-fetched if there be a will to do 
> so. One opensource library to service this, done once.
> 
> (I no longer have my old posts, proposals for this. Discussion was a while 
> back.)

Analog tape simply transported one information, comparable to a single
wav file, but DAWs provide much more information. It's impossible to
transform it from one to another DAW. Sometimes it's already impossible
to be backward compatible for different releases of DAWs. The problem
grows up when thinking about abilities of different workstations, as
simple as EQ plugins.