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The biggest sin of DAWs is building in 12TET western music as the default, built-in and often unchangeable setting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_equal_temperament

Music across the world uses all kinds of other intervals, in fact even music in the west has used other intervals in the past.

Right now the whole world of computer music has this restriction and formatting, but so much more could be done here

Temperament/scale systems should be something you set much like the colour of the UI or your midi devices.

This is about boxing in art, cultural colonialism

There are ways around it but it is all workarounds, third party plugins, and a general mess of things you have to do

This is not right

I really hope Ableton 12 resets the stage here and fully integrates a change like this at every level of the UX

Imagine if computers across the world could only speak one language: English

You had to write in English by default

If you wanted to write in Japanese or Turkish, you had to download third party software, hack around with your keyboard settings, everything had poor support

Such is the case with 12TET and DAWs today

It is really a tragedy

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