Hypothetical question about software and what is up ahead. Just conjecture on any of our parts, but a lot of good minds around here that may have a vague vision of the future to share.
 
My 12 year old grandson wants to be some kind of engineer when he comes into his own. He heard me swearing at the computer, forkin’ this and forkin’ that about a Pace protection dead end (more about Pace than the plugin itself). He said when he gets to be an engineer, he will take care of me and make any software I want.
 
Then he asked me what software I would want if I could have anything. Jeez, loaded question. Another clone compressor maybe. Better stereo chorus and flange definitely. But he got me thinking outside of the box for awhile before settling back into ignorance.
 
What I can envision is an involvement of all the senses. All five of them since the majority of us haven’t practiced enough yoga to get 6 and up.  5 will do for a few thousand years more till all they have is fossil debris to prove that we ever existed.
 
Music experience will be sitting in front of some box that transmits visual holograms with multi dimensional surround sound. Taste, touch, smell will be part of the future generation DVD’s.
 
Can see this at first being a helmet augmented by surface electrodes, having to RTFM to get them in approximately the right place.
 
Next revisions will be laser or whatever triangulated beams to stimulate specific sites in the brain without the need for surface electrodes. Automated programs will find an area based on biological subtleties needing the shock without damaging everything it needs to pass through.
 
Think we will get to this, and maybe sooner than we realize. Wonder however what reprogramming viruses and Trojans will be installed. Scary thought…
 
Is there any effect or capability we can’t go to Waves and download. We got compressors, delay, reverb, flange, phase, chorus, EQ, distortion and cab sims, arps for keyboards. May have forgotten a couple, but this can’t be the limit of our expression. Is there an effect needed that we do not have yet.
 
Don’t have a coupon code for the future, but you guys got any ideas or inspirations?  Will pass your thoughts on to my grandson for future development. He did say that he will take care of all you guys (and girls) as well. He has some neat ideas about how to make money otherwise, so said all of his music innovations will be for free. He has to support the struggling artist.
 
John

Most people (in the SONAR forum) just want Staff View to work correctly.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I slay me.

Yeah brother, it's where we are at now in the present. Fully agree.
 
Perfect world ahead in attempt, though the ancient heathens said we will never get perfect. Joy in the struggle is trying to get to a place we will never get to. Question was assuming that up the line in the short term, we will see 99.999 percent perfection in the DAW of choice, more emerging players on the field than we can keep track of, but all of them almost perfect. All bugs of any worth worked out. Our current struggles, frustrations will be a humorous artifact of the past.
 
Best Buy has a cheap consumer PC with a generic OEM program that blows Sonar, Reaper as we know the programs off the map. Sound card has more multi channel channels than we can ever use. Quality beyond anything we can hear. Specs. if there is any competition, on paper only.
 
So was just wondering, what's next...
 
John

I believe your grandson should focus on the software side of music creation as well as music transfer or conveyance, the way music could be played without speakers. Forward to the past and back to the future, if you will. I would buy those apps, even when they're free.

Exactly, the idea of a brain resonator field that excites the auditory surface of the brain downstream from the ears without requiring the ears to hear.  I'm convinced this is where it is headed though I won't be around to see it. All entertainment media will eventually be delivered like an internal Star Trek hollow deck experience.

I'm with Bapu!  let us old (educated) fogey's use staff to compose.  BTW did you know they don't even teach cursive writing in amerikan elementary skools?  I'm aghast!

You look aghast!

Maybe your grandson could concentrate on ways of teaching people how to actually do things and learn things and understand things instead of how not to do, learn and understand anything.  Most every new app I see come down the pike just does or learns or understands for us reducing us back to our primate days just dragging (and dropping), pushing (buttons) or grunting (in approval when we the app meets our so-called needs.
 

Yeah, but it looks like for at least for the forseeable, this is where we are headed. Won't be long before we won't be able to flush a toilet without an ap. Until some major backlash, we are losing control over everything.
 
Back in the late 1960's, schools outlawed the new fangled calculator (not pocket calculator because some of the first ones were as big as a typewriter)
 
Rationale was that these devices would lead to a generation of vegetables that couldn't use a slide rule.
 
They did improve everything and the slide rule faded to where it needed to fade to, but put a major knockout on sudent's math skills. Push a button and leave your brain on the beach. Makes life easier at the expense of making us weaker. Not against new technology, but concerned about not getting it balanced.

There are calculators?
 
Man, the world moves too fast for me.