Well, there you have SSL supporting Ardour's development, and using Linux inside their VERY FINE consoles (Real World Records, Peter Gabriel's studio, uses a montruous one from them).
That's the other way around to what you state, isn't it?
Anyway, using a DAW is far less expensive than having the "real thing" as you say, giving the oportunity to lots of musicians and bands to record and produce albums even when they have no funds to get it professionally done. AND with these Free Software (as in "freedom", you know) even professionals get good results while keeping their freedom intact.
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That's the other way around to what you state, isn't it?
Anyway, using a DAW is far less expensive than having the "real thing" as you say, giving the oportunity to lots of musicians and bands to record and produce albums even when they have no funds to get it professionally done. AND with these Free Software (as in "freedom", you know) even professionals get good results while keeping their freedom intact.
http://www.ardour.org/ssl_support_announcementl
http://www.solid-state-logic.com/
http://www.solid-state-logic.com/news/gabriel.htm
Regards from Patagonia Argentina