clintmartin
It was $29 during Black Friday, and probably will be again before Christmas.
I love Mixbus, but I don't do much with midi.

I've downloaded and had a play with the demo. I've not tested out midi functionality at all, but for my simple acoustic stuff at least, for less than £40 I'm sold.  Payday tomorrow and with it being my birthday on Saturday I'm going to treat myself to it. 

So we will have to wait until saturday to wish you happy birthday then.....

Vilovilo
So we will have to wait until saturday to wish you happy birthday then.....

Well, I've gotta do something to celebrate getting a bit closer to 40 haha.

My birthday is tomorrow! I'll be 49.

Happy birthday.

Hi Kevin, 
Happy B_Day>> 40 omg you getting old boy... haha, I am in my 60's.. well my body is, damn it.
As to Mixbus... yeah go and get it... btw, if you demo it, they will probably offer it to you for $29 BUT without the FX.. well that is what I did.
As another poster said, it is great for mixing... not sure I like the Ardour engine that Harrison have use to put their mixer on (it's seems clunky but very capable and another workflow to learn) but bounce/render/stem (whatever;)) and mix.. oh YES, it has a lovely sound and a real 1970's/80's vibe about it.
It does seem like it uses CPU but that seems to remain fairly constant if just using the mixer and it's inbuilt FX. Harrison do state that they are always running, so it's not a big CPU hit on my system...
Anyway... the old saying>> "taste and try before you buy", I had the demo for a few months and eventually cracked... $29 or $49 is really a no brainer for this quality!

What about the Essential Plugins ?
$49,- wir or $29,- without.....as I probably will be using other DAW'S as well I think I'd rather be using the same VST plugs in all?
Are the especially good sounding or exceptionally low CPU?

Anyone got some feedback? Thanks

I doubt you will be able to use any Harrison plugins in other Windows DAWs (except perhaps Ardour which MB is built on and maybe other Linux based DAWs if you use Linux?) they aren't VST, they are LV2 (unless they have changed since last I looked) I have Mixbus 3 and 4 but couldn't be bothered using them.

Hi Matron,
You've got a point there. I knew the Harrison plugs can't be used elsewhere and actually was wondering if I should be getting the Harrison plugins in addition to my regular set of Vst plugins (should they be exceptionally good....)
I might as well save the 20bucks
 

People so day they are good, but you will be stuck to using them in Mixbus and not much else.