It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?
Live production stuff as well.
So much of the available “industry standard” software is fully proprietary and Apple only.
What do you mean the “live production stuff” exactly?
Most of the apps to interface with pro level mixing consoles and lighting boards are Mac / iPad . Very few for Android, limited Windows options and pretty much nothing for Linux.
You’re correct but in my experience everything I’ve used at a venue is analog, running almost entirely off of the mixing desk, without an external computer running Win/Mac/Linux. And half of these consoles I’ve used had a USB port which was used for, among other things, storing templates. This allowed for our front-of-house mix engineers and monitor mix engineers to cruise along because most of the work was done at home or in other venues. The software for writing those was Windows/Mac at the least, I don’t know if any used Linux and I’m not sure if they were “human-readable” text formats.
At that price point I’m not so motivated to work on something FOSS, I care more for working with the hand-to-mouth musicians than the large institutions.
Before I retired I was also almost entirely analog.
But these days it appears that even the gear targeted at small bar bands is leaning heavily toward a fully digital workflow.
Yeah, there’s a Behringer desk that is ubiquitous…
Being super cheap does make the X32 family pretty popular at the entry level.
I’ve seen it above that level, again because of the USB port. Definitely not arena sized, but definitely large venue sized.