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<p>Over the past few years, I've been prototyping <a href="https://lambein.xyz/paw-live2023/">PAW</a>, a DAW based on ideas from live coding and bidirectional programming. Like with live coding, in PAW you write code to describe a piece of music incrementally. As part of this, you also build a GUI for direct manipulation of that same code, providing similar affordances to traditional DAWs.</p> <p>PAW stems from my observations that regular DAWs tend to be limited in what they let users do, due to fundamental limitations with traditional GUIs. I believe that mixing in ideas from live coding, and programming at large, can help savvy users shed those limitations, while retaining familiar GUI affordances and usability.</p> <p>The software is open source, but not yet quite usable. My goal with this talk is to share ideas with other people in the field of music production software.</p>