DAW version control is one of my dreams. If I could have a really tight git equivalent for reaper projects, it’d be so cool. Plugins are, as usual, the biggest barrier there. Doesn’t seem like there will ever be a good way to deal with different people having completely different plugin collections. Unless someone makes “Netflix but for plugins” or something.
The other thing I saw the other day that I thought was cool was a reverb plugin that uses your GPU. Seems like the next step for modeling could easily be in that direction. Especially since the bar there is low, pretty much just the positively ancient UAD hardware acceleration cards, although UAD themselves seem to be going the opposite way and pushing native stuff now.
I'm right there with you. I once tried managing ableton projects via git. Was a dream from a simplicity standpoint but was not effective in the long run. I don't remember why it didn't end up working well but I abandoned it shortly after trying it the first time. Something like this in modern DAWs would be incredible.
`bup` notionally does this a lot better, or git-lfs.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bup/bup/main/DESIGN
git really needs textual representation for any kind of meaningful commit, and binaries totally break that.