People pledge allegiance initially for all kinds of reasons and it’s normal for people to not change something in their life unless there is a good reason to. Most skilled people find ways to compensate for their tools deficiencies in the knowledge that the upsides are worth it and their work isn’t suffering. Different trades people prefer a brand of saw (yes saw, not Daw!) because it is resilient and others because it’s precise. Edit: AAF adoption is apparently more widespread than I thought, including in my own DAW, so ignore what I said about wanting an updated OMF I think an updated version of something like OMF would be a huge step in the right direction if developers could agree to it. Pro Tools maddeningly converts all the stereo tracks in the OMF to mono, making OMF borderline useless for sharing with Pro Tools from another DAW (and I’m not going to convert all my stereo tracks to dual mono just because of Pro Tools’ archaic OMF import capabilities). It’s better than just sharing stems, but it doesn’t contain any FX and it messes up the cross fades - it’s really just a container for time-positioned audio. That said, I have tried using OMF to share non-destructively edited audio tracks created in Cubase with a colleague who uses Logic. Expanding this concept to different DAWs with vastly different architectures would be much more complex. Even relatively simple changes like newly integrated channel strip options, increased number of FX inserts allowed per track, or improvements to crossfade curves would prevent it from working correctly if the project made use of those features. Even within the same DAW lineage, you often can’t fully open a project created in a newer version of the DAW with an older version (if the program even allows for this) because the project file uses some feature of the new version that the old version didn’t have yet. This would be great in theory, but I think it would be too complex. That said, I have spoken with and warned AVID reps that ProTools is quickly falling out of favor with today’s younger generation because of its lack of creativity and intuitiveness and they are destined to become ONLY a delivery medium in the near future. Everyone should have it on their system alongside their creative DAW. ProTools is the tried and true dependable medium that sits at the center where everyone can contribute to. We producers can’t have every DAW installed in our systems. With so many different DAWs out there, it would be chaos if everybody delivered projects in whatever format they wanted. Another arranger will come in and take those stems, open them in Ableton or FL or whatever, add what they want, and then re-deliver in ProTools once again. I compose in Logic but always deliver my stems in ProTools. The industry needs a standard so that everyone can exchange songs and work efficiently. I am a professor of music production and engineering at a major university and I can answer this with much insight.
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