[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[Ricardus Vincente]

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 10:03 -0500, Jason Russler wrote:

> I only lurk this list but I have an observation that everyone must be
> aware of but that I'll iterate anyway to put this discussion in
> another light.  Pardon me if it seems naive:  There is a bizarre
> obsession with the  "high-end" on this list.  There's all kinds of
> interest in penetrating professional recording/broadcast studios and
> the minds real recording engineers.   This is not a growth market and
> it's already glutted.  Project studios in people's basements for
> various types of independent production make up a much larger market
> in pure volume and there are more and more of them.  Ardour isn't
> designed to reach them and everyone knows how steep the technical and
> licensing difficulties are to get into that arena.
> 
> That said, I don't think that the concept of getting more money to the
> project and a gigantic "feature request" can really be separated in
> the strategic sense.  I understand that this discussion is more
> concerned with short-term income.  However I don't know what the
> current strategic vision for Ardour is apart from penetrating a
> dwindling market.  My hope is that there is one for getting into
> project studios.
> 
> Whatever the vision is, it's not really my business since it's not my
> baby.  However, if I could use Ardour in my project studio - I'd be a
> very happy, loyal, paying customer.

 I don't think they're going after the high-end studio market, I think
they are going after the Pro Tools market, which exists in more than
just high-end studios.

 Rich...