michaelhanson

ampfixer
The whole DAW costs less than most plugs. Buy it, try it. There is some voodoo under the hood to be sure.

I've got it, but I prefer to work inside Sonar.

!!elitist!!

It would have to be something like Sonimus Britson except with EQs, Comps, crosstalk and tape sims. You would have to put it on all tracks and buses, and it would have to have a flexible FX bin to change the chain order within the plugin itself. It would be one monster of a plugin.
Sonar's Pro-channel should be able to get very close to what I just described.
I just think it's fun to mix things up sometimes...and Harrison Mixbus does indeed sound great.
 

I just A/B a mix I did in both SONAR and Mixbus3.
 
Mixbus3 won hands down.

Is there a little snippet of something perchance that one could download to hear this difference first hand ? Doesn't have to be much, just has to be both the same thing of course, but just to be able to hear the difference first hand, like a pair of wav files or something one from Sonar one from Mixbus ?
 
I keep hearing about this 'sound', but then I read some horror stories, and then I wonder if it is in fact such a good nice sound, why isn't everyone using it, especially at the price they are asking. Then of course I read things like the latest thread on KVR about it, which isn't what I would call flattering, and well if I could actually hear it, it may push me past the fear :) But if not I'm still a happy camper.

Richard,
 
I wish I could post some snippets of the track I'm working on but it's covered by an NDA.

It's a console emulation- compression, saturation, limiting, spatial enhancement all under the hood.
No magic beans.
You can do it with any daw using 3rd party plugins. MB makes it easier for those who don't know how or want to go to the trouble.
Great concept & sounds good too. I just wish it functioned better.

No Dimbulbs Allowed?


That leaves me out.

carl
 I just wish it functioned better.

In what way?
 
Sans the lack of  control surface support (coming in 3.1) it's been pretty stable and I've not had any problems testing various plugs thus far (and have I got a slew of them).
 
Granted I'm only working with one project so far and it's a mix/master of a set of exports directly from SONAR so most of my EQ was already done. 
 
MIDI implementation is a bit weird getting used to but honestly I do not expect to use MB3 for MIDI. The biggest boon for me is MB3 is now 64bit. I am making every effort to eliminate 32bit anything. 

yorolpal
No Dimbulbs Allowed?

No, quite the opposite.

I'm just learning Mixbus now. I still haven't decided on a workflow. Like do I arrange everything in Sonar and export all dry stems (including reverb returns etc) into Mixbus, and add effects there, or do I get the EQ and compression done in Sonar and export the processed stems into Mixbus just for summing and tape saturation etc? I guess there are many ways of doing it. What I don't see myself doing is a project start to finish in Mixbus.