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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Of course it's brief. Lots of stuff happened, but saying that XP was the first is also wrong. Adobe Audition used to be a freeware program for Win95 called CoolEdit.. in the 30+years that Adobe has owned it, they have only added VST effects...

As of today, you can make music on any kind of hardware, even obscure handheld devices from before smartphones, and they'll perform better than the original Logic. There's nothing technical setting Apple's "industry standard" apart from freeware these days.