Why I did not jump on Harrison's Mixbus Black Friday Sale.

The man with a plan.
 
Kudos!

rtucker55
Man, I bought into the whole shi-bang also... Certainly hope they go easy on their early supporters.  Really, not sure what 64bit is going to bring to the table unless they add vsti support.

That is what it is supposed to be all about - MIDI, VST/VSTi in 64bit.

Mixbus is based on Ardour 
 
But of course MB is a Windows application. So development time lags Ardour (which is now 64bit, VSTi and MIDI capable).

Haven't installed it on the new studio computer. Not entirely out of the question that I upgrade to 3 when it comes out, but it'll really have to impress me. 
 
To paraphrase Bono, I need a 3rd DAW like a fish needs a bicycle.

I discovered Garage Band on my new iPhone.
 
Plus I can do music videos at 240fps.
 
Hello Cloud™

You ARC you Park™?

rtucker55
Man, I bought into the whole shi-bang also... Certainly hope they go easy on their early supporters.  Really, not sure what 64bit is going to bring to the table unless they add vsti support.

Me too!  I bought the complete vs last year, but am waiting on the 64bit vs3, which I also read somewhere that it will support vsti instruments.  Not sure when they will finaly get vs3 out.  Hopefully soon.  That addition will make this much more useful.  Not that I will give up Sonar, but for some projects, I would just use Mixbus from start to finish.  
 
At least I know that others here are watching for that update.

mike_mccue
I'm doing drum replacement today too.
 
On my brand new chord progression.
 
I moved the snare mic about an inch to the left, and it picked more ring than snazz so I just put it back where the snazz is atz and I'll give it another try.
 
 
 

flac, sfz or wav?
 
I'd use a PONO if I had juan.

You don't have to view Harrison Mixbus as a start to end DAW to produce in.  There is always that partial ground where Mixbus can be used.
 
The trick to it is to use your DAW as you normally do and go right to the end in terms of your mix.  But instead of summing everything in your current DAW export a series of stereo stems.  You should be able to represent even the most complex mix with a handful of stereo stems and a few individual tracks.
 
The trick is to import those things into Mixbus and just do the final polishing and summing there instead.  Their plugins are great as is their reverb too.  But most of all is the sound.  It does have this sweet Harrison type sound to it.
 
The three EQ's on the tracks, buses and the masterbuss are all different.  The tape saturation is very controlled.  I am not a big fan yet of the dynamics processors but that may only need more time to get to know them better.
 
I started actually mastering full stereo premastered tracks too making it easier to get to grips with.  Their mastering processors are very good indeed.  Once you get that down then you can start bringing more into it and getting it to do more as time goes on.
 
It will be a long time yet before it will have all the features required to do a complete audio/midi session on it with all effects.  But in the mode I am suggesting it actually rocks bigtime, now.
 
 

I have created Mixbus projects in Win 8 , OSX10.7.5 and XP .
Then I opened them up in all 3 OS's …..meaning all different OS's from the OS I had created them in .
 
I notice that people keep forgetting that Mixbus projects will open regardless of what OS the project was done on . 
 
Yo Peeps , can you dig the gravity of what I'm talking about ? Mixbus being able to do that should count for something 
 
Kenny