To a point, I have to agree with this, some DAW's are geared toward a specific genre, trap, edm, etc. and some are designed with recording, mixing, and mastering audio in mind, the best thing to do is figure out which DAW is right for the type of music you're wanting to produce, there are some good all arounders in the game, but you'll be better off a workstation that's more suited to your genre of music....IMHO

 

You're right, but now it's time for developers to cooperate or at least model each other's products and produce a product that has all the features of a complete DAW.
All DAWs are imperfect, and if they are all included in one product, they will satisfy all the needs of users. But when you are dealing with incomplete DAWs, you have to spend time switching between them, and this is unproductive and wastes a lot of time.
None of the DAWs have everything that a user needs, and the developers each go their own way and there is not much cooperation between them.

 

The company accessanalog.com already offers a service similar to part of what you describe. You can rent hardware, and use it in your DAW as as a plugin insert, and control all of the hardware parameters via the plugin interface.

 

i us 3 on a daily basis; reaper , s1 and live. for music making i prefer live, for testing/jamming or working for others and mastering, reaper and s1; love them all

 

Max MSP for making music . Traditional DAWs are just for music what Photoshop is for photography, a picture manager.

 

I would really like to hear your Max MSP made music without any "traditional" daw. Why don't you take us to school with it please. Bring it on.

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I'd be pleasantly surprised if your so called music, is anything more than randomly generated experimental sounds

Sure. And Lamborghini is just a family car.

 

I've been currently developing the DAW of the century which utilizes all the best features from every DAW now on the market. I am calling it Gandolf, and will market it as..."One DAW to rule them all". And for the rest, it will in the darkness bind them!

 

Features->

Normal price- $59 to beat Reaper,
Special stripped down "Industry Standard Edition" for $25000- To beat Pro-Tools,
Lifetime free updates for sons and grandsons- To beat FL Studio,
Single left click to draw and single right click to erase a note in piano roll- To beat Ableton,
VST2 support- To beat Cubase.

 

59 years later, users of the new AI SuperDAW from @Lois Lane and lead developer @Thotu have received an update.
Version KISuperRobot v3.1 is available for download.

What's new?
The new headset with direct neural connection is here, now you can control the DAW mentally.

Changelog v3.1:
- The burning of some synapses has been fixed

 

Agreed, the DAW companies are like kids who never recieved enough attention from their parents, so they add some new feature to their DAW and say "look at me, look at me"...This is the part where the Reaper fanboys chime in and say "Reaper is a complete DAW, it does everything, even cooks and washes the dishes".......lol

 

15 days later-
@Thotu :- Some people are experiencing higher Mental Usage with the recent update. It will be fixed in the next release.

Meanwhile R2R-> We have fixed the bug that caused the higher Mental Usage in the last update, that silly developer @Thotu can go die.

 

The most significant trends in DAWS that will drive market share are cloud-based stuff, mobile capabilities, and the incorporation of AI.

Given that, I predict that Apple is in the best position to grow share, as they have expertise and cash flow in all three of these areas.

BTW, Reaper does not even appear in the top 5 of DAW market share leaders. Cash flow will be their biggest weakness when it comes to competing with the "big guys." They will still be a popular and affordable solution for audio hobbyists.

 

Indeed, some musical education would be welcome for a lot of people . This is called "live" performance. But no worry, AI will flood the business in an ocean of loops

 

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This might be nice to think about, but it is an impossible task. You can't please everyone, therefore you can't provide everything everyone will want. Things are fine as is, companies don't work for us, they make a product and hope someone buys it. Competition drives innovation which benefits everyone.

 

The customers of tomorrow are not even born yet!
This new generation, when we are already underground, will grow up with AI and it will be natural that they will use AI.

Every DAW company will try to win new customers. I think if you put an AI stamp on it and promise or suggest to people that they will soon be in the charts without any musical training, you will get new customers.

 

All these arguments are only for one thing. DAWs have similarities and differences. Some of them are good for one thing and some of them are good for another. The main problem here is that people don't like to switch.
If switching between DAW was accepted by users, questions like the question of this topic would not be asked. But it seems that it is not widely accepted.
Users ask themselves why developers don't try to implement many good features that are in other DAWs in their own product, or why developers don't join hands and make one DAW with all the good features.
How long do users have to wait for opinionated developers to realize that their products are very flawed and need a great solution?
Nothing in the world of music production is more inefficient than switching between DAWs.

 

I switch DAWs and am unbothered by it, but it sounds like you personally have a major issue with it, so the burden of finding a DAW that meets all of your needs is on you.

 

AI is a science fiction matter. AI is made by a series of programmers and technological people. It may be able to produce some simple answers for technological questions or discovered scientific facts, but it is very weak for those related to humans and especially art. AI is just a claim. A claim that will never come true.
Artists themselves often do not know what they want to make. How can AI be expected to create art?

 

Nobody can tell if computers will be available

maybe we'll all go back and play Flute in our Bro's Femur

 

You gave a good example and there is a very important point in your words. If you gather all the computers in the world together to simulate the sound of a real flute with its all details and features, they will never be able to do so. The physical world around us is so complex and full of mystery that computers will not be able to understand it.
So we conclude that it is better to go and learn to play your flute and not trust computers too much. Computers can never understand the real world.