Thank you Larry!!!  I have 2,3 and now 4. All at bargain prices thanks to you!
 
 
Cheers

Would anyone recommend Mixbus v4 for mastering?
I like the idea of warm-tube mastering and easy eqing, and I like the concept of Mixbus being like an old fashioned Analog Mixer. I make guitar/vocal driven music - think Elliott Smith - I use VSTs for drums, bass etc.. but I like them to sound as authentic as possible, so I'm a bit turned off by all the DAWs which seem to cater more for the Electronic Music market. Does Mixbus have that 'warm' sound of old style mixes?

Frank Harvey

Vilovilo
"Well ,Happy new year to fellows Sonar users..
So I went to Mixbus and followed with Ardour,
I cannot say why ,but I am very found of Ardour's graphic interface ,the software is light and quite efficient" ............................
Just to feed your thoughts.
All the best.
Olivier

Hi Olivier,
Thnx indeed for your thoughts.
I , like you, decided to give yet another one of the Daw 'OUTSIDERS' a run .....after all, we are in a highly 'Demassified' (ie: Phrase coined by Alvin Toffler - 70s Futurist) society where even the smallest players on the Web can quickly turn out to be popular / majorly successful giants.
All that aside..............what are your views on the clarity of the visual display of MIXBUS ?
Whilst I am extremely impressed with many provided components ...................I am struggling to deal with the resolution.
From my end .......the GUI layout ,whilst impressive  I'll admit is severely hampered by the resolution which is lacking considerably.
This is a significant problem ...........compared to the likes of Sonar,Pro Tools,Samplitude etc.....on my same visual monitors.
Not good for those with less than perfect vision.
Cheers.................Frank

Hi Frank,
I admit that the GUI is somehow confusing compared to Sonar,but you can tweak it in preferencies - appearence mainly,you can change the scalings and it helps to make it fit with different type of monitors.
Hope it helps.
Cheers.
Olivier.

I started using Mixbus for mastering stereo pre mastered mixes only.  It was a good learning curve.  Especially the mastering plug-ins too. They are excellent. That multiband compressor is quite unique as is the EQ. 
 
I got into more mixing stems and tracks later.  Starting in Studio One and porting things over to Mixbus. You can certainly do this. The latest version of Mixbus features a fair bit of midi control so now the idea of building ideas further back into their infancy should be quite realistic. 
 
I am finding as time goes on I am getting similar results in terms of console emulation and analog signal paths etc in Studio One as well as Mixbus.  I am not coming out of Studio One all the time. But rather finishing projects off there. There are a lot more options now in terms of how you do that.
 
Mixbus is all about the signal flow between something like a Harrison console and its multitrack recorder.  It is a nice way to work actually and if you have spent a lot of time there in a previous life then it will be familiar in some ways.
 
You can control all the points the saturation can be introduced.  You need to keep an eye on that.  Channel, Buss and Master EQ's are all a little different. The 32C having that wonderful Harrison console channel strip EQ and it sounds killer too.  Channels have got dynamics now too and it is possible to set them up in rather transparent ways. You can patch plenty on interesting things into the signal Mixbus flow, especially your own fave plug-ins.
 
I find I can use Mixbus in a mastering situation. Not for all though. Having once preferred the sound of Studio One compared to Mixbus in a Hip Hop master. But good for many styles.