Hi guys,
SAWStudio has been around for a looong time. Some years ago the project was sold but its developer, Bob Lentini, is still developing its creation.
SAWStudio was entirely written in Assembly and I thought I should share this with you (I´m not sure if it´s still fully Asm as of now).
I don´t own it, my DAW is and has always been Cubase. However, I´ve used to record in a studio that uses SAW and I can give a feedback on this (the owner actually knows Bob Lentini). It´s the only of its kind, most of DAWs are written in C++.
Well, how this asm made DAW compares to its C++ siblings?
- STABLE as bloody hell
- FAAAAAAAAAAAAST, the fastest ever made DAW in the planet
=> I mean... the thing is really realtime fast, fast, fast. You do things without nearly any halt
- "10 years ago", when my Cubase main exe was about 40mb, SAW Studio was 1.5mb? Today I think SS is 6mb....
- It´s ugly as hell too....argh...
I guess SAW is a fantastic example of how well written professional asm CAN be well maintained, outperforms any C++ bloating OO trash in a blink of an eye.
Cheers
Alex
edit to add: Mr. Lentini is one of those against OOP. This lead him to go against the market when some plugin developers were changing protocols (WAVES company)