Which DAW GIANTS have folded and not recovered ?

[cryophonik]

I actually created a track using Kinetic exclusively.
https://www.soundclick.com/music/songIn ... ID=1570464

I don't think I would do that again though. It's kind of a pain to arrange things that way.

Very cool!

[pbognar]

These are sequencers, not DAWs, but...

Texture - Roger Powel/Magnetic Music
Dr. T KCS
Personal Composer - Jim Miller
Master Tracks Pro - Passport
SMPTE Track - Hybrid Arts

[Trancit]

Zynewave Podium

[chk071]

These are sequencers, not DAWs, but...

Texture - Roger Powel/Magnetic Music
Dr. T KCS
Personal Composer - Jim Miller
Master Tracks Pro - Passport
SMPTE Track - Hybrid Arts

Zynewave Podium

I don't think those are "giants".

[Schmidi]

That second picture is Tracktion. It even says so on the left hand side.

[Ploki]

These are sequencers, not DAWs, but...

Texture - Roger Powel/Magnetic Music
Dr. T KCS
Personal Composer - Jim Miller
Master Tracks Pro - Passport
SMPTE Track - Hybrid Arts

Zynewave Podium

I don't think those are "giants".

i've been doing this I was 10 and i've literally never even heard of any of those They don't even "ring a bell" and I used obscure shit like Presto Arranger and GoldWave.

[chk071]

I do know Podium (it's not big though), but, never heard of the rest.

[pbognar]

These are sequencers, not DAWs, but...

Texture - Roger Powel/Magnetic Music
Dr. T KCS
Personal Composer - Jim Miller
Master Tracks Pro - Passport
SMPTE Track - Hybrid Arts

Zynewave Podium

I don't think those are "giants".

i've been doing this I was 10 and i've literally never even heard of any of those They don't even "ring a bell" and I used obscure shit like Presto Arranger and GoldWave.

These were leading edge MIDI sequencers from the early 1980's.

Texture was pattern based for the IBM PC.
Personal Composer, also for the PC, was probably the first widely known notation based MIDI sequencer.
Voyetra Sequencer sold a million copies and was for the PC.

The others were primarily for Atari and Commodore.

[vurt]

im posting from the year 2031, sadly, now there is only "music tribe". you did this!

what a woooooorld.

[pbognar]

In 2031, they are using USB - Universal Serial Brain interface.

[LAV888]

MAGIX Music Maker? I honestly have no idea if they were actually relevant at any point. It was the first DAW I ever used when I was 12 and what started this passion for me. I remember just looping samples and making songs that way. I didn't even know virtual synths were a thing at that age!

[jens]

Zynewave Podium

Not folded at all - just a 'lil tardy at times.

(Latest stable release (3.4) is a little less than three months old)

[lobanov]

Zynewave Podium

Not folded at all - just a 'lil tardy at times.

(Latest stable release (3.4) is a little less than three months old)

Podium is a very old DAW. Pre-Windows, I think. Podium isn't dead. There is only one developer behind it. He was rewriting the code significantly last years. Good DAW, anyway, a labor of love. I tried free version many times ago, yes, it lacks some features, but you feel inside it as if you're at home...

[Trancit]

Zynewave Podium

Not folded at all - just a 'lil tardy at times.

(Latest stable release (3.4) is a little less than three months old)

Wow, really??
Didn´t know...thx for correcting me!

[jens]

Gladly!

Podium is a very old DAW. Pre-Windows, I think.

Yes, iIrc Frits originally developed it for Amiga. While working on the first release version, he'd been an interface designer for TC but then at some point quitted to fully concentrate on Podium. But when it unfortunately didn't really take off the way he had hoped, he went back working for them (as a freelancer, I think) - and that was when the Podium development started to significantly slow down. But it totally is his love-child.

(Fun fact: I was the very first person to Alpha-test the PC version for him back in the day)