[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[John Rigg]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:30:36AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I was struck looking at the SAWStudio site that they have a product
> for house mixing. $500 and it allows you to create individual monitor
> mixes for every set of headphones on the stage. (Assuming I understood
> what I was reading.) When this conversation popped up last year I
> mentioned the idea of creating a specific version of Ardour for use as
> an outboard LADSPA hosting in-studio but maybe something like a live
> house mix version of Ardour would be another form that takes very
> little customization and goes right at that $500 market?

I think you'd have a hard time convincing most live sound engineers that
a digital system running on commodity computer gear was reliable enough
for mixing live gigs. In a live situation there's no room at all for
crashes or other problems.

John