<i>If there’s anybody out there who is requiring Pro Tools or anything else because it excludes a particular group disproportionately, that would be discriminatory</i><p>I think that’s a bit of a stretch. The core concepts of PT are available even in Pro Tools First (free). They’re requiring PT simply because it’s the industry standard in audio recording/production. Though I agree with the author, the use of it in podcasting is perplexing.<p>If we’re going to go down this Avenue, the same parallels could be made for Adobe products and the gatekeeping they had, even before they went to a SaaS model.<p>It’s unfortunate that the industry requires PT proficiency, but it literally wrote the book on DAWs. Plenty of producers/musicians use alternative software that’s cheaper or better equipped, but the PT pendulum has long swung; since they’re all using PT key mappings.