I got the album tracks to master in Mixbus 3 and I found they were in 48K. Mixbus had a terrible time just creating a session at 48K. It resisted with all its might!  After a lot of wrestling and crashes I managed to get it setup and playing correctly. You should not have to fight it so !
 
They dial in quite a lot of tape saturation as a default setting on the buses and the master so keep your eye on that and also they have a limiter switched on too. Once you pull the tape saturaton back and kill the limiter it all starts sounding a little more transient. You can soften things a little too much sometimes.
 
There is some stuff wrong with MB but I am positive and looking forward to it being rock solid. It is like any important update. It may contain a few bugs.
 
Have not checked midi yet or the included virtual instrument.

Thank you Clint very much. That is a cool feature. I am finding I am switching the order of the channel EQ around with a plug in EQ in mastering mode on tracks for example.
 
MB is well behaved once it settles down. Its like an excited dog wanting to go out for a walk but then settles into a steady pace.
 
I am going to have to do the limiting in another DAW for now so I can use Xenon.  But I am liking the sound of the mixer a lot and the multiband mastering EQ and compressor are really excellent for fine tuning things.  They sound stellar there is no doubt it.  That tune control on the masterbuss which just cleans up 200-300 Hz clug is great.
 
The EQ's on the tracks, buses and masterbuss are all a little different.  It is a marvelous mastering tool.
I am not using built in dynamics so much in this current mastering job.

From the Harrison website:

• Experimental support for video timeline, video window, and audio+video exports

Experimental support? What does that mean?

I was attempting to master an album in MB3 but have given up too. It is just too unstable and there is a little too much crashing and stuff going on. Too much time wasted rebooting etc..
 
I am back in SOP V3 and that is like a million times better. It too has had a major upgrade but at least we have also had a 3.01 update too which I think has addressed lots of things.
 
Maybe MB was pushed out the door a little early perhaps. It might take at least the first and perhaps second update to get it right.  Even MB2 is not totally crash free either. Yes it is better for sure but I can get it to fall over too without much effort.
 
I am real happy with Klanghelm MJUC right now and seems to be giving me the Mixbus sound without all the angst.

Jeff and Clint
I really appreciate your feedback on this. I am hopeful that Harrison will straighten things out, but I'm going to wait on them doing that.
Michael

I have completely uninstalled MB3 from my system as of today.  It is just painful. It freezes way too much and takes about 6 or 7 freezes and attempts and reboots even to create one simple session that actually works.  I know I said it seemd to settle down before and it was working Ok for a while but not now.  It does not like my RME sound card either.  It is not RME's fault either.  Everything else runs like a dream on my current system.
 
Be careful about buying this right now. I don't think they do refunds either so beware.
 
It is not ready and I mean not ready. They need to do some serious fixes on this before I would even consider it again.
 
I actually tried my 32 bit machine and tried to run MB2 inside that and it was also very unstable and just painful as well.  I have removed that from that computer as well.

I didn't install it, after downloading it. "Stalled and waiting for the tow truck", eh? $40 on hold while we see what they do about it. Maybe someday......
At least I didn't join their Plugged In membership....LOL
Michael

Hmmm, I'd have to become more of "a computer guy", and I'd rather get better at the musical aspects and then the tracking/mixing/producing patts.
   Where were you reading this stuff, Ed?
Michael

Thanks. I should've guessed, but the neighbor's cat woke me up in the middle of the night and I'm not sure the coffee is working! LOL
I don't know anyone using Linnux, so it always seems so "Shangri La", to me. Oh well.
Michael

I suppose I can explore how it works for me, so thanks for the feedback, Clint.
Michael

Thanks! I feel like a kid being told there's no sharks in the pool! LOL
I haven't been avoiding installing it, as much as I am doing a lot of gardening and then editing, Melodyne and AD2 on a pile of old tracks. So Mixbus3 is down the list, a bit. Tomorrow I get my OctoPre Mkii and will have to yank rack pieces and cables to fit it in, but that will be big fun.
 
Michael

There is now an 'Interim release' (Harrison Mixbus 3.0 1268). Registered users will see this in the Mixbus forum. The thread says there has been 400 changes so far.

The interim version is all you need. Beware ,the installation is a booger bear so pay careful attention where to put your license files. I think it pretty much has been covered in this forum. I think you will really like Mixbus.