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points by anigbrowl 14 hours ago | 0 comments

In the era of vibe coding, nobody cares about features. Well obviously people care if they're not there, but just having a bunch of features that every other entrant in this space has is not interesting. If you want attention you need to articulate why it's different.

Consider Ableton Live: when that first appeared it got everyone's attention because it had a clip based workflow that was completely new, and the DAW timeline was secondary. The extremely polished user interface helped too. Then Bitwig built ont he Ableton UI concept but added complex environmental integration essentially allowing you to treat all your plugins and clips ilke modular synthesizer components.

This looks like a perfectly serviceable DAW but I have no idea what makes it different from any other freeware/open source DAW.

[–] antisol 2 hours ago

  > I have no idea what makes it different from any other freeware/open source DAW.

This claims to be able to open .flp files. That's a big deal for me. If it works.

[–] therouwboat 13 hours ago

Uhh, would it work if I add "and make it completely new" to the prompt?

[–] anigbrowl 10 hours ago

Maybe? LLMs sometimes provide suggestions that are novel or highlight overlooked ideas. Sometimes I'll oneshot a narrow problem and invite coding agents to get creative about how they chart some complex data and am pleasantly surprised by the results.

I'm absolutely not snobby about where the ideas originate or how they are realized, if the end product functions well. I don't don't want to waste time assessing newly-reinvented wheels. This problem predates the advent of vibecoding for the masses.