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If the goal is widespread industry adoption, I'd recommend the approach of extending a professional, standards-based interchange format already supported by major DAWs: AAF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Authoring_Format

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0000...

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The README extensively references AAF.

Indeed. This is a Bitwig project. I think the default for Bitwig engineering should be "assume extreme competence."

What's wrong with Bitwig engineering?

Nothing, they are praising the engineers.

Yes, which is why the Yet Another Standard approach is so mystifying. Bitwig is surely aware that AAF has wide support and could easily be extended to support everything they want to do.

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