Where Will Digital Audio Workstations Be In 10 Years ?

[vurt]

they'll be on the floating screens where we wave our hands in the air and well be able to see through them, like on films.

[Scotty]

This will increase accessibility and on the downside "sameness" and not necessarily better music.

Yes, it might for people that aren't actually artists trying to create something new and different. But for people that are artists trying to do something different, they will use the tools in new and different ways and try to come up with stuff that no one has heard before done with those tools or instruments.

Quite possibly. I imagine that really creative types will turn it on its head and do mashups, upcycling etc. I do agree that the money from selling music is drying up and live shows is where you need to be to build a following. This seems odd to me given that we can self produce quality videos these days and reach the world for free where you can only reach small handfuls of people at a venue. Regardless, it seems to be the way of the world.

[THE INTRANCER]

youre basically just taking xfactor and robot wars and making them one.

Interesting.. singing robots...with robots at home voting in.. judging the sonic purity of their voice through spectral anylisers..

[Aloysius]

They'll be on the floating screens where we wave our willies in the air and we'll be able to pee through them, like on weird films.

[toonertik]

people, well adults, who ooh and ahh at fireworks worry me...

Oh I'm sure if you'd been with me in Santa Cruz, Teneriffe for Carnival fireworks...
you would have ooooh whoooo oooooh ahhhh
and them some, at the pvt parties afterwards

In the longer terms... intelligent arranger tools will be more common with simplified user interfaces. As more machine learning algorithms understand the anatomy of what makes "a hit" we'll start to see contextually sensitive tips and suggestions for song structure, chord progressions, and melody available through cloud based analysis tools. This will increase accessibility and on the downside "sameness" and not necessarily better music.

Over the years I have been fortunate to work with a number of musicians... NOT all who want to make a "hit"... (and those that do normally, in my experience, know full well how to construct a song, chord progressions etc).

The whole scenario (business, if you like) of music making is very large and diverse. And it will continue to be so...
there will always be individual who wish to express them selves with their chosen instrument, I mean a real instrument as in piano, sax, drums etc etc...
to record such will still involve the traditional method of linear recording..
A START>>>> time>>> END


Unless you go modular, where there is no end in sight...

[Tj Shredder]

In 10 years people start to run vintage DAWs in virtual machines and rave about how much better Live 2.0 sounded compared to version 23...

[Aloysius]

In fairness, Live will only be at version 12 by then.

[Tj Shredder]

No, they have to keep up with Fruity Loops and pull out paid upgrades every 9 months because the user base had been mostly lost to Ardour which got a real boost, as they could convince more devs to support it thanks to grateful users and Patreon becoming the main income for devs...

[Aloysius]

Well if v2.0 sounded better, they may start counting in the opposite direction. In that case, I'll skip v8.0 this time around.

[Scotty]

Over the years I have been fortunate to work with a number of musicians... NOT all who want to make a "hit"... (and those that do normally, in my experience, know full well how to construct a song, chord progressions etc).

The whole scenario (business, if you like) of music making is very large and diverse. And it will continue to be so...
there will always be individual who wish to express them selves with their chosen instrument, I mean a real instrument as in piano, sax, drums etc etc...
to record such will still involve the traditional method of linear recording..
A START>>>> time>>> END


Unless you go modular, where there is no end in sight...

For sure there are lots of musicians who aren't worried about making a hit but money is always a driver and will influence the tools we work with now and in the future. AI doesn't necessarily have to point to that outcome... the tools could allow the composer to try out different genres... borrow progressions from a Beethoven symphony and engage with any variety of experiments as they search to break out of any compositional boundaries. It is my conjecture that the first tier of these deep tools will lean toward where the promise of money and profit can be found. Artists will always seek to find their way out of any predetermined outcome. The future doesn't have to be all doom and gloom but if anyone thinks that their talents can't be eliminated by the march of technology need to talk with Mastering Engineers who are facing a real challenge now with increasingly more competent automatic mastering services.

[Acid Mitch]

Daws will come on brain implants. You’ll be able to record/sample anything hitting your eardrum and you just have to open your mouth and the music comes out.

[enroe]

In ten years Cubase has been taken over by Google and
can be used "online" with advertisements and teasers
everywhere in the arrangement window.

In ten years Ableton, Bitwig and all the other DAws will
belong to Facebook - decorated with flickering GIFs
and Pics suggesting insurances, enlargements, make-up
colours and melodies.

In ten years many people will have more swimming-lessons
because of climate-change.

In ten years the british parliament will still discuss the
BREXIT and deny every BREXIT-action that has been
suggested by anybody.

[vurt]

there will be one daw "the hivemind".
that is all.


ps: brexit has been reclassified a cryptid, alongside nessie, yetis and iggy pop.

[Acid Mitch]

there will be one daw "the hivemind".
that is all.

Unison sounds will be huge.

[vurt]

there will be one daw "the hivemind".
that is all.

Unison sounds will be huge.

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