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DAW projects aren't text. They can include audio files, plug-ins, automation curves, MIDI data, and more. A complete reconstruction would have to save and free
by TheOtherHobbes 5mo ago
DAW projects aren't text. They can include audio files, plug-ins, automation curves, MIDI data, and more.
A complete reconstruction would have to save and freeze all of those elements.
You can save references to save space, but you still need a complete collection of everything as a starting point.
And DAWs themselves regularly change their saved file formats.
For a completely secure reconstruction you'd have to save a complete virtual machine with the current DAW version, current OS, current installed plug-ins - with licensing and DRM - and all of the project data.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5mo agoThat's no different than git + binary blobs. The problem is not the non-text elements, because in a non-destructive non-linear editor, those elements are rarely, if ever, modified after creation. The rest of the state can easily be represented as text, but as I noted in my other comment (a sibling of yours) the format is rarely line oriented which makes most VC tools not particularly suitable.