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You might not like that AI is getting its way into the art of music, but one thing I really didn’t like is how the whole music software industry has been stagnating for so many years.

Countless hours of work gone, because nobody dared to develop a versioning system for musical projects in any DAW.

Now the game has changed, if you don’t evolve or adapt, people will just develop their own stuff in no time.

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> nobody dared to develop a versioning system for musical projects in any DAW

So pissed about that. 10y ago I was a random young amateur musician in a mediocre local band and I couldn't believe that versioning wasn't a first-class thing, let alone not a thing at all.

10y later I do music again, and I'm daily frustrated that _this is still not a thing_. Also infuriated by DAWs not supporting collaboration, or fckin commenting (taking notes). It's insane to me, there's a dozen DAWs that do mostly the same things and not one of them has differentiated by supporting these _basic_ things (in terms of need, not complexity, although note taking really can't be hard).

I added a versions and notes feature, see if it meets your needs

Soundtrap has basic versioning (nothing like Git), comments, and online multiplayer. I don't use it, but I was impressed by the presence of these features.

Friday-new_new_final.flp isnt a versioning system its a cope. Excited to see DAWs evolve.

Didn't Splice start out as a versioning tool for Ableton? I think it wasn't very popular.

I remember when it was released, Splice has definitely been an exception :) I used it in the past to share projects with others, I had a bit of a mixed experience but anyway their effort was really appreciated at that time.

I think there is enormous untapped potential in AI working with MIDI in a DAW. And I don't really get the handwringing about it. Does that make it less creative? What about using synth presets? Or sample packs?

From time to time I like asking AI to give me some suggestions for jazz chord progressions, but so far they haven’t been that incredible. Maybe I need to include a bit more of context, or maybe I shouldn’t mess with that and let that for humans.

I found that by adding all the scales and weird tunings into the system, the agent is more likely to try it. And you can specifically tell it to iterate in your specified direction.

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