Stumbled across this well-written article, a report on one person’s take away from the recent AES convention in New York. The whole article is worth reading but this in particular caught my eye.
Manufacturers of DAW’s based on the proprietary hardware concept are realizing their need to not only support open standards, but that any goal of “owning” the recording industry, of establishing “the standard”, is simply no longer realistic. The recording studio of the future will be based on many platforms, all speaking the same language.
