I really shouldn’t gloat over the misfortune of other companies in the music-tech biz, but somehow I can’t help but smirk a little. Seems that Digidesign’s parent company Avid got the attention of the financial world by announcing that sales of ProTools have fallen off badly recently. Their stock then fell 14% in response. Bummer. Maybe Digi’s monopolistic stranglehold on the DAW market is weakening more than I thought. Maybe people are starting to figure out that just because ProTools is ubiquitous doesn’t mean that you should use it, or that there aren’t better products for less money, etc.\n<\/p>\n
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