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‪silliest outcome is that i wait until tantacrul has finished frankensteining audacity into a somewhat functional digital audio workstation. it already does like… half of what i need, theoretically‬

‪worst outcome is i write my own daw but considering my own music software doesn't even have a track list or midi input yet i think it's safe to say i will never get around to that,‬

fairly likely to eventually bite the bullet and make my own midi editor though, and at that point making a “daw” is not a lot of extra steps if you could reasonably call a tool that has no synths, effects or vst support a “daw”, but i digress

‪it took me almost an hour but i have read enough of the Abletom Reference Manual, Version 12 to be able to conclude its MIDI implementation is probably competent, and complete enough that— wait hang on i forgot the three most important things does it have those checks GODDAMNIT‬

‪daw developers actually implement the entire midi 1.0 specification challenge [impossible] [THIS WOULD BE REALLY EASY IF YOU ACTUALLY CARED] [i know i am basically 90's midi synths georg, a statistical outlier, but seriously i've read the midi spec this shit is NOT hard come on]‬

society if ableton supported midi [insert old tweet complaining about fl studio also cutting artists off from old technology] (starting to wonder if daws that actually bother to support important features from the first two decades of midi's existence are the exception rather than the rule)

i do not think that being able to make use of the full pitch bend range on any GM-compliant device sold in the last three decades is an unreasonable demand from a fucking digital audio workstation

@hikari it is a lovely spec. i feel like it was an early well-known use of var-length ints? and i respect a good var-length int. *and* it makes the speaker go plink plink boom boom.

(i should go to bed)

@rf the Standard MIDI File format uses variable-length ints for the time deltas, yeah. the MIDI 1.0 data format itself is all fixed-length, though it does use a continuation bit-like trick for omitting packet headers where they are redundant

@hikari wait was he actually planning to make it basically daw level "powerful" and not just like better? 0.o

@hikari i have never used fl studio but the original fruityloops is one of the most pleasant pieces of software i've ever used

@mcc oh wow… how long ago was it even that it was still called that…

@hikari @mcc I remember that happening as if it's yesterday, it's not that long ago surely *looks it up* oh no