[taywrobel]

If anyone else is as frustrated as I was with the article mentioning “the DAW” 73 times without defining once what the actual acronym stands for, it’s “Digital Audio Workstation”.

[cauthon]

In the same way I don’t expect a biologist writing for biologists to explain “DNA” stands for “deoxyribonucleic acid”, it’s probably not necessary for a music producer writing for producers and engineers to define “DAW”.

Users here probably feel the same way about HTML, FIFO, DAG, etc

[BigElephant]

No. The main audience for this article already know what a DAW is

[bwanab]

The fact that the article was in DJMag might have been a clue?

[dist-epoch]

Defining DAW is like defining SQL. If you need the definition, you are definitely not the target audience.

[_joel]

DJ mag aint what it used to be. The top 100 is pretty much a joke to most people who care about music.

[tomduncalf]

Yeah the top 100 is super weird, it’s all these commercial EDM DJs but the weird thing is the magazine doesn’t otherwise really seem to target that audience. I don’t read it but I have come across some good long form pieces like this from them online, so actually I think they are trying to do some good stuff.

[vladsanchez]

+1 Feels like they don't care who's their readership. Felt like they told me: "If you're not in the industry, Google it."

DAW : Digital Audio Workstation https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-a-daw

[capableweb]

> +1 Feels like they don't care who's their readership. Felt like they told me: "If you're not in the industry, Google it."

Caring about their readership is exactly what they're doing, just that you happen to not be what they think of when they imagine the typical reader. The typical reader is already into music production and with a 99% certainty know what a DAW is.

I wouldn't expect every tutorial on "Google's Official Android Developer Blog" to explain that "JVM" means Java Virtual Machine, some resources really are for people who already know a bit about the subject area.

[RockRobotRock]

In the time it took you to Ctrl+F DAW you could have googled it.

[KingEllis]

100 percent

[thr0waway001]

D'OH!!!

[karmakaze]

I wasn't in this instance, but am in general. For industry folks they probably don't even realize it's not a word--surprised it hasn't lowercased to daw by now /s.