TLDR: pressed record on cassette tape recorder and recorded onto cassette tape
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The versioning idea is interesting and something many musicians have to contend with as they work on songs. Personally, I wouldn't want the complexity of take-level versioning, but pinning audio and mix automation to a given mixdown could be useful for tracking the history of a song. It might be more effective to approach this as version tracking / collaboration layer around existing DAW formats rather than a full replacement.
- won't have sufficient positive impact on the bug/feature you are working on
- you don't have time to address at that point in time
- are significant enough to require pay down later
How to address them in terms of tooling and process is a way bigger question
love the demo https://bungee.parabolaresearch.com/change-audio-speed-pitch
have you thought about wrapping it as an audio unit or vst via juce/clap/iplug so its usable in a daw?
https://juce.com/ https://cleveraudio.org/developers-getting-started/ https://github.com/iPlug2/iPlug2
That said, guessing a bunch of those are meant to be concise examples.
For what its worth my quick take on a lot of the text-based sound coding environments [1] is that they provide a relatively quick way to approach creating audio programmatically differently compared to a more traditional spatial / grid-based daw.
One nice thing about Cracked is that you can treat it as an audio input in Ableton, Logic, etc. and so you could use it to generate a sound to sample / process further in a daw arrangement. I had stumbled across it originally from the author's Wikipedia page which mentions that he uses it to create longer albums / pieces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Orcutt
Interview with him about it https://www.thewire.co.uk/news/41540/bill-orcutt-releases-op...
[1] https://tidalcycles.org/ https://sonic-pi.net/ https://chuck.stanford.edu/ https://supercollider.github.io/
Desktop wrapper: https://github.com/billorcutt/Cracked
Cat examples: https://idroppedmyphonethescreencracked.tumblr.com/
The whitepaper shows a 4km x 4km solar array, which is 1600 hectares (3200 International Space Stations). Would assume the array they're proposing would be cheaper since its structurally more homogenous, but $480 trillion dollars is a whole lot of money.