You can use regular native plugins with it, odd because Mixbus2 appeared to be a trojan horse for Harrison's plugins.
As a mixer, it's fine, but it is not a suitable replacement for a full DAW, but appears to be heading in that direction. It sounds different, and for some mixes, it sounds very nice. A lot of functions are not obvious or intuitive, and the documentation is spotty, so you are likely to have to make use of the support forum, which has a lot of enthusiastic users. The initial release was too buggy to use, but there were some quick updates that cleared up most of the problems. V2 dependency on JackOS was a PITA, and V3 is lot easier to get moving.
I got V2 cheap and the upgrade was cheap too. Just route signal to pairs of outputs, and aux channels to inputs, and connect these to the processors. Sonus, there is nothing stopping you from using external processors with any DAW, as long as you have sufficient connections on your audio interface, a condition that Mixbus depends on as well.
It not only looks but it feels as being a pro piece of software too. knock on wood that is ), I would surely consider Mixbuss as a candidate for being my DAW of choice. Sound wise I have the feeling (I didn't have the chance to compare it with any other DAW) that its sound was sweet and "open" but after all these would be the expressions I would use for DP as well !Įven though I didn't have the chance to try it extensively (I used no MIDI at all) I think DP is by far a more deep and mature DAW.
That would be a game changing capability for me (and I'm sure for many others) since I have lots of outboard that I can only use when I mix using my analog desk at the moment.
This is a function I really miss when for some reason I have to mix ITB in DP. I liked some things about it, like the mixer window and the way the included plugins are immediately accessible on the window itself or the informative metering but the only thing that I really envied was the ability to use (patch) external processors in the mixer inserts. At first it took me a while to get used to its workflow and GUI.
Mixbus for Mac OSX is available to purchase for $79.99 USD.I tried it for a while during a mixing session in a friend's studio some days ago. Ardour Exchange for Mixbus is not yet released. Mixbus supports the abilty to import AAF files from the regular “Open” dialog if Ardour Exchange is installed on your system.
Ardour Exchange compatibility - Ardour Exchange is a third-party utility which allows you to import AAF session files into the Ardour/Mixbus session format.(See the About page for translator credits) Supported languages include English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Swedish, Polish, Czech, and Norwegian. To select a different language on OSX, use the “System Preferences->International->Language” dialog. Language translation - Mixbus now supports many different languages for menus and dialog text.Templates can be recalled by choosing the template from the ¨Channel Configuration¨ selector when making a new track/bus. Track templates - Track templates can be stored by clicking on the track name and choosing “Save As Template”.Save As - In addition to Save and Snapshot, there is now a ¨Save As¨ function which creates a new snapshot in the session, but differs from “snapshot” in that future Save commands to go into the newly-created snapshot.
This is a nice editing convenience that helps you manage large sessions. Tracks without regions under the playhead will be hidden. Any track with a region under the playhead will be unhidden.
“True Analog Mixing”™ is based on Harrison’s renowned 32-Series and MR-Series console designs, plus Harrison’s proprietary digital mixing technology. Mixbus “True Analog Mixing”™ provides critical mixing functions in a knob-per-function interface. Harrison Consoles has released version 1.2 of Mixbus, a virtual “analog console” integrated into a full-featured Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).