Without a demo or refund policy, there's not much chance I'll be buying this.  I liked the original Mixbus for summing stems and mastering, but had to give it up -- the constant crashing was just too much.  Not about to shell out $$$ for something that I can't verify will run reliably on my system.  
 
Harrison: you've got the sound, now give us proper demos of your products and you'll gain a lot more fans.
 
Cheers,
Eddie

Mixbus actually has some very cool and convenient features when you explore the menus (especially the right click context menus). A lot of stuff that Cake would do well to adopt.

Another DAW? Soon there will as many DAW's as there are plug-ins. Then what?

bapu

Mosvalve
Another DAW? Soon there will as many DAW's as there are plug-ins. Then what?

I'm the Champion?

You're trophy awaits you.  Who wants to carry the torch?

It is a separate install and product. See post #37 above.
 
My takeaway is that I now have 4 more buses (which is cool) and a 32C EQ on every channel (which is even cooler).
 
Of course it cost me $149 but I'm OK with that since UAD's 32C plug is $125 if you can get it on a 50% sale.

Putting on my business hat as a software guy:
 
They need to figure out how to merge these things quickly. Perhaps just make the EQ section an extension to the core MB3 like Cakewalk does with the Pro Channel. The confusion in the market and having to juggle the release schedule of two "different" products just doesn't make sense. And if they want to add a new EQ model then what - a 3rd DAW?

I'm thinking Mixbus 3 will be fine for me too. I don't need 4 more buses and I like the eq in Mixbus. I can also always use the other 10 or 12 I own. Slick EQ GE works great on tracks...for example.

I'm hoping by the time I have a 1200 dpi monitor that 1) it'll be cheaper and 2) something even better will be out.

bapu

sharke
I'll tell you this much. The release of this new version with 4 extra mix buses gives me a little insight as to why they haven't implemented PDC on the utility buses (by far and away the worst thing about Mixbus IMO). I mean why would they, when they can get you to shell out over $100 for more PDC'd buses (i.e. useful ones).

There is the argument that if you can't do it in 8 buses, maybe you're not thinking it through.
 
Honestly, in SONAR it is really rare that I've used more than 12 buses. So the new version suits me just fine.
 
I paid $30 for Mixbus 2 (32bit ony). I paid $49 for Mixbus 3 because I wanted 64bit. I've paid more that that $79 for plugs that I hardly use (not bragging just stating a fact) or a dinner that I can never eat again.
 
So now I've paid $149 for the Harrison (virtual) 32C console with 12 buses and I'm pretty happy. No complaints here. 

I guess it probably depends on the style of music you're working on. I have some large, long projects (15mins +) which have tons of synths and many different changes of mood in them which stray far from the traditional song structure of a band, and I find myself using a lot of different send effects in different parts of the track. Now if I want to do the full mix in Mixbus then ideally I'd want to set up all of those sends in it so that I'm feeding them audio from tracks that I've EQ'd and compressed in Mixbus. The alternatives would be printing the sends in Sonar and EQ'ing the tracks in Mixbus, in which case the effects tracks would be based on pre-EQ'd audio, or doing as much of the mix as I can in Sonar, printing all tracks and sends and importing them into Mixbus purely for the summing and tape saturation, OR doing it all in Mixbus and dealing with the utility bus PDC myself (a pain).

Seems to me if they solve the plugin delay compensation of utility buses that would wipe out a huge concern.
 
I'm digging the 32c and looking forward to diving deeper. The Mackie worked better with MB3 though...

smallstonefan
The Mackie worked better with MB3 though...

Given that Ben said the code base is the same between the two, I wonder if some setting gets dinked for your controller. My FaderPort seems to work the same in both.

My main concern is my 23" widescreen monitor.
What does Sonar recommend? (it's been a few years all looks good here, I just can't remember.)
Will 32C look Okay with my current settings?
If I bought another daw I don't really need for $149 and it doesn't look right...I wouldn't be happy with myself.

fret_man
Resurrecting this since the $149 sale date closes Monday. With all this talk on 4k TVs in the HW threads I may be able to use this DAW if I get one of those TVs. For those of you who bought the 32C, what are your current thoughts?

In use the 32C on a 30" monitor. It suits me.
 
Here is a track I mixed in 32C.
 
https://soundcloud.com/bapu-1/dare-you-to-move