20 Jan
2008
20 Jan
'08
4:17 p.m.
On Sunday 20 January 2008, Rob wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008 11:42, David Baron wrote:
A point. However, XML does not touch rendering--just says where to find
raw
data and what might be done to it. That $700 program also has dialogs to find
substitute plugins between the various architectures and such. This would be
the real work were there some XML standard. The thing about XML is it is easy
to parse. And most mixing decks, hard or soft, are isomorphic to a large
degree.
Should there be a "lingua franca", Steinberg's might end up being a
candidate
because of the wide support of their VST plugins. Steinberg/Yamaha might end
up publishing their "standard" (DTD) and provide a free (but
"non-free" in
our parlance) SDK to service it as they do for VST and ASIO. Most "standards"
come about in this manner rather than some slouch like myself calling for
them :-)
I need the $700 to pay my rent. We all need
everyone to get
together, merge all those XMLs and make things easier for everyone.
I think building a tool to translate between all the open DAWs, and as
many of the proprietary ones as we can, would be more productive than
trying to establish an XML-based lingua franca that everyone has to
adhere to. It may work for an office document that there's
essentially only one correct way to render, but audio is way, way
different.
Not that I'm volunteering right now, since my audio recording needs
are basic enough that Audacity is overkill. But I have already
written a few scripts to do things I needed with Rosegarden files
that Rosegarden couldn't do (but probably can nowadays), so maybe
eventually I will.
What are you doing with Rosegarden files? Some of us might want to share your
success :-)