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i was thinking if i finally relented and installed a daw it would be fl studio, then i discovered half my musician friends use ableton, but now… i have been reminded that fl chan exists. can i really neglect her. competition simply isn't possible
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