@hierarchon

some background on 1: splice tried to introduce git for producers, but it ended up sucking a lot and nobody really uses it aside from the ability to get plugins for cheaper than they cost to buy outright

producers never had a good way to share DAW files, but the laregly proprietary landscape of software means that even if one existed, they'd probably depend on other proprietary applications that you don't have. there's very minimal attention given to reproducibility (at least in the sense of setting up a computing environment for it) in the music world, which is a huge shame.

2: an unfortunate reality. if open source people were less concerned with their neat tools and more concerned with making things that actually sound good in the end, i think we'd have it a lot better. there are lots of good free audio programs, but not many whole DAWs. the ones that do exist suck compared to the proprietary options.

unfortunately, audio programming is very hard and niche.