That assumes some clearly understood definition of 'lots', and 'professional',
and 'producer'. Things are changing dramatically in the muzak industry.
One could say 'lots' of U.S. Senators support xyz, but there are
only 50 Senators.
One could be 'professional', if they just filled out certain tax forms
And the lines are all blurry around 'producer', the catcher of alll spears,
but we can assume a producer facilitates creation of a saleable product,
downloads, streams, CD's, concerts, collaborations, and generate some publicity etc
Are professional producers counted in millions, or just thousands?
At the high end, there will be solid entrenchment among renowned studios
primarily using hardware, with $engineers$ mixing and mastering, because it works,
and that without crashing, licensing, or malware.
At the midrange level of projects, lets use 50 tracks and a city
of 200,000 people, for example, it's a lot easier and far more affordable
to try new software, and innovative hardware, and the client base will likely be
less demanding of name-brands, as long as there is evidence of quality results,
at a good price. In small towns, there may be little competition,
and someone with skillz could maximise their lack of a win/mac OS
My guess is that there will be continual slow erosion of the industry standard brands,
with more integration of linux at various various duties, with some software standard brands
being ported to linux, and lots more hardware running with a linux under the hood.
And then there are those sly divils who work in whatever they choose,
and present their clients the results on a pro-tools screen