That would be very very cool, but good luck with trying to version .logicx or .cpr
I think popular software vendors should seriously reconsider their file formats in the 21st century, including graphical and audio ones.
I think popular software vendors should seriously reconsider their file formats in the 21st century, including graphical and audio ones.
Very true, but it's not just about vendors and formats. Making semantic changes a first-class, user-facing construct has profound implications for how you think about what you're modeling and what kinds of interactions (not to mention collaborations) are possible. Even Git is not "21st century" in that respect: textual diffs are not semantic.
It's a shame that the music industry hasn't had a similar revelation. I'm tempted to be cynical and accuse them of fear and greed, but more likely "open data" just isn't something they think about.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/why-micr...
Recording 16 tracks at 96/24 is 4.6MB/sec.
A typical 3 minute pop song is almost 1GB.
If you're keeping multiple takes that will obviously balloon tremendously.
The OpenOffice formats were going through standardization and Microsoft quickly bought their way through the standards process (this part I remember). There was a lot of complaining of how they exploited the particular standards' body. They bought seats, that then sat vacant after they got their standard pushed through, and couldn't meet quorums on other standards being voted on.
There were also many complaints about the Microsoft standards themselves. Particularly, that you couldn't implement support for the documents based solely on their standard.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
My bandmate often works on our project while it's in a Dropbox folder, so I get a steady stream of notifications about impulse responses and undo files being changed; not very useful. I can tell when he's tracking because the new .aif files come over but that's about it.