[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[Ralf Mardorf]

John Rigg wrote:
> 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.

There happen enough accidents when using solid mixing consoles etc. :D, 
there's the room for problems, but additional problems aren't wanted ;). 
But indeed on television I saw a concert, were they did use computers, 
it maybe was a Peter Gabriel concert.