Behringer DAW

[_leras]

I think the idea of developing a DAW that works exactly how you want it to work has a lot of appeal to a lot of folks. People sometimes do what they want without necessarily bowing to financial considerations. Believe it or not.

What does that have to do with anything?
Behringer does nothing, ever, without financial consideration.

Building hardware and software are two completely things.

Building a DAW must be one of the most complex programming tasks possible. If you got any part of your initial design wrong you'd be paying it for a very long time.

There's almost zero chance someone can build a good DAW from scratch in any less time that others have taken. Years...

[jens]

so long as the kids got the goods he promised. pity it took drama.

Maybe it didn't - Behringer are one of those companies who announce a whole lot of stuff quite early on and then most everything takes a lot longer to realize than originally estimated... and wanting to donate something like this is one thing, but to suss out where and how exactly and then organize all of that is another. When someone in the meantime makes a video about their unfullfilled promise and they later on fullfil it, that is not at all evidence that the video has got anything to do with their subsequent actions.

true!!
so let me rephrase it a little, then its a shame the drama happened.
now well never know and overall, it sullies the gesture.
again though, im happy the kids get toys thats what counts in the end

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with all of that!

[bungle]

I think the idea of developing a DAW that works exactly how you want it to work has a lot of appeal to a lot of folks. People sometimes do what they want without necessarily bowing to financial considerations. Believe it or not.

What does that have to do with anything?
Behringer does nothing, ever, without financial consideration.

Building hardware and software are two completely things.

Building a DAW must be one of the most complex programming tasks possible. If you got any part of your initial design wrong you'd be paying it for a very long time.

There's almost zero chance someone can build a good DAW from scratch in any less time that others have taken. Years...

That still has nothing to do with the fact that this whole enterprise was/is being done with a financial motive, they are a business, their literal job is to make money from product, even if this particular product was to be free, its whole design was to push sales elsewhere.
If at any moment it became a non viable profit pusher, Uli would scrap it at the drop of a hat and NO, he would not deem it necessary to inform forums or socials about his decision.

[toonertik]

and then double it again... and you will still have underestimated

Yup...
that's the way I remember...
COBAL/SQL business stuff, so no really clever algorithms
just lots of system stuff, data and error checking for secure transactions (Oh and GUI/ print forms , and the rest).

[original flipper]

Hi

Another DAW...
Anyone who has been around computer assisted music production for some time will probably have quite some memory of the myriad of trackers, sequencers and fully fledged DAW's that have come, gone or stayed...
What has always struck me was just how complex and feature strewn these things get - quickly.
I wonder if the 'challenge' is to be different, to the point where the end user just scratches their head thinking: what on earth is going on here?
I have used dozens of different programs over the years and been frustrated more times than not - my 'test no1' with any DAW is how intuitive it is to load a synth and hear it respond to midi input (keyboard) OR if no keyboard is available to 'drop' a midi clip on the timeline and 'punch in' notes onto the midi clip.
I am amazed at how daunting the simple exercise I just described is on the MAJORITY of programs I have used - in some cases it is so unintuitive that YouTube or (goodness forbid) a manual has to be read (that is another story - just how poorly they can be written).
I like using different DAW's because they are like going to different studios (which was certainly the case back in the day for live recorded music) and (for me) I often get inspired according to that alternate environment.
Whatever Behringer do it would be nice to see something that really uses the GUI in an inspiring and coherent way...

[revvy]

Easy to spot B’s competitive advantage in HW. In SW? Not so much.

[Jafo]

Easy to spot B’s competitive advantage in HW. In SW? Not so much.

If their SW is anything like their HW, they'll be going from the cheapest HW possible (both senses), to the cheapest SW for nothing. Not sure if this is a good move, tbh.

[revvy]

Easy to spot B’s competitive advantage in HW. In SW? Not so much.

If their SW is anything like their HW, they'll be going from the cheapest HW possible (both senses), to the cheapest SW for nothing. Not sure if this is a good move, tbh.

Actually, as I hadn’t read the fist part of the thread with B actually confirming it’s free, ignore my post. Competitor advantage is completely irrelevant

[jens]

If their SW is anything like their HW, they'll be going from the cheapest HW possible (both senses), to the cheapest SW for nothing.

Which Behringer devices do you own or have owned?