.dawproject - transfer projects between DAWs

[pc999]

Anybody know this?

I would love something like this implemented in every DAW

"Open exchange format for user data between Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs)
The .dawproject format wants to provide a (vendor-agnostic) way of transferring user data between different music applications (DAWs)."

https://github.com/bitwig/dawproject

[antic604]

Anybody know this?

I would love something like this implemented in every DAW

"Open exchange format for user data between Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs)
The .dawproject format wants to provide a (vendor-agnostic) way of transferring user data between different music applications (DAWs)."

https://github.com/bitwig/dawproject

As this is a brain-child of Bitwig's lead dev Claes it's been already discussed there:
viewtopic.php?f=259&t=566102

[Blaster]

It seems a bit like


When there's already
AAF (in Studio One for example)
or OMF (Cakewalk)

I haven't looked into the differences or practicalities of those formats. But I imagine a superset on top of/compatibility with, those existing formats gives more chance for adoption.

[jancivil]

OMF, if the collaboration is all on the level of audio files, is sufficient for many or even most situations.
OTOH there are going to be non-trivial differences in what eg., Cubase does exporting MIDI and Logic's reception of it, and vice versa unless things are quantized pretty much all the way down. I have tried to work with other people's MIDI before, from other DAWs which are significantly different than Cubase and it was squalor. IME, Logic has been the most reasonable going both ways, by far. I really don't know why.

"vendor-agnostic way of transferring user data" already exists for certain type of data. MIDI vagaries have to be sorted.
a lot of it will be contextual, your file has a lot of swing, so pertaining to a 60% to 70% location between beats (by 50% I mean an 8th per a quarter note pulse): is that resolved, and how? 10% on the former back to a regular 8th, jacked 5% on the latter to be the 4th of 4 sixteenths? Consider it a plain triplet, ie., 66.66%? This is not a trivial problem. It has to consider all of that as absolute time, and then translate it to musical time. Doesn't seem insurmountable but it has to be acknowledged.