[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.

PS:

I was googleing on German for "professionelle digitale mischpulte", 
because digital mixing consoles are seemingly used on stage and that's 
to funny, I was linked to something about Harrison.

Mark's idea seems to be up to date, computers seems to be used on stage 
too. Modern digital (live) mixing consoles aren't stand alone solutions 
all the time, they indeed seem to need the additional PC or Mac.

I don't have any knowledge about this, it's just the result of using 
google and remembering that I was surprised when I saw a concert on 
television.