It’s also on the cusp of a major upgrade release, so good documentation of the latest version’s features will be in high demand very soon.

Being super cheap does make the X32 family pretty popular at the entry level.

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.

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.

Live production stuff as well.

So much of the available “industry standard” software is fully proprietary and Apple only.

Anyone who is trying to make money from their videos isn’t likely to have any incentive to be on Odysee, unless thay start paying for views with something other than their useless in-house crypto.

Plus, the audience on Odysee is miniscule compared to pretty much any other video platform.

they turn around and lock all but the most basic features behind a pay wall.

To be fair, that was forced by the music industry.

If they didn’t licence the tabs and come up with a payment system they were going to be sued into oblivion.

I don’t think it’s impossible for a FOSS solution to do this, but I don’t think anyone has tackled it, either

That’s just a software problem. Not all that difficult, assuming the hardware manufacturers don’t lock you into some bullshit locked down proprietary cloud control thing.

Banks are opposed to anything that is “free”.

Unless it’s free to them exclusively.