[ardour-dev] o'reilly

[Jan Depner]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 17:38, Paul Davis wrote:
> i am having a conversation with an editor from o'reilly:
> 
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> This looks interesting.  Tell me more:
> -- How many people are actively using Ardour in day-to-day operations?  In
> other words, what's the installed base right now?
> -- How many downloads of Ardour have there been?
> -- Are there any "high profile" users?  For example, did Green Day record
> their latest and greatest using Ardour?
>  
> I'm trying to establish the current market size and growth rate which, in
> turn, will help me determine the potential for sales of books about the
> tool.
>  
> The program looks cool to me as someone who has spent many, many hours in
> recording studios (as a musician).  However, my experience has been almost
> entirely analog and my digital recording experience is limited almost
> entirely to a single recording session in a ProTools environment, and in
> using Garageband on my Mac at home to replace my Tascam PortaStudio ;-)
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> 
> what should my answers be?
> 
> --p

    I don't have time to use it day to day (wish I did :) but I have
used it to record three different band demos, a handful of original
songs, and I have two more band demos lined up.  I've also got a friend
of mine pretty much convinced to rebuild his studio and use
Linux/JACK/Ardour/JAMin.  I'd definitely buy a book.


Jan