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[niklas_sn7]

The link first: http://member.sn7.de/niklas/mt/

Lately I wrote my master thesis about "The evolution of digital music production - DAW plug-ins on top". Because I had collected so much material I thought of presenting it online, which I did.
So all the things I found out about DAWs and plug-ins are backed up with quotations from books, magazines and websites. The quotations itself are commented as well plus I added some more links and stuff.
The main focus of my thesis is to analyze what makes digital music production so special and ahead of legacy approaches (if at least). I took the example of DAW plug-ins to illustrate that analysis. And I explored the topic based on a timeline including 50 years of the technological evolution of digital production tools from the frist computers making sounds up to the DAW plug-ins of today.
I think it is not necessary to read the whole text in a row, it makes more sense to go from part to part or to just look up some references one finds useful. Or do further research with the timeline...
I personally recommend the Appendix, where I put some tables with the most common DAWs listed, categorized by their driver/OS/plug-in compatibility. So people can see what type of hardware/OS/DAW combination they could choose from.
Hope to read your comments on that.
You might find the same post in different forums... I try to spread the news, yes.

[niklas_sn7]

Just take a look.

[tgersic]

Looks good. Congrats on completing your masters degree. What are you working on now?

[niklas_sn7]

Looking around for work actually. Not focusing too much on it... Recently I'm getting busy again with "producing", means building tracks, mixing and stuff.

For more discussion on my thesis I recommend http://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/356923-history-daws-plug-ins-top-digital-music-production.html#post3883160 - just to bunch all the threads elsewhere.