The goal is to get the price back to the $39 sale price by Jan 13, 2014.
 
Group Buy HERE

I'm bummed that the Bass Character plug is not part of this. At least that's what the chart looks like.
 
Too bad. I want that plug but for $30-$49 not $109.

That was the first thing that hit my mind when I saw your first post, Hope the BC-plug is on sale.
 
Oh well, more cow bell...

They just had all these plugins on sale for the exact same prices
that the group buy would take them down to...at full participation

Granted, Mixbus wasn't reduced...but KVR always has the $49 + $49 thing goin' on...

So really this isn't anything...not worth my effort if the next sale is going to have them for 
those prices anyways...

I'm also hoping this is a prelude to Version 3.
 
As in maybe they want to rustle up some cash (and new customers) before they release version 3 for a $49 upgrade price.

cclarry
They just had all these plugins on sale for the exact same prices
that the group buy would take them down to...at full participation

Granted, Mixbus wasn't reduced...but KVR always has the $49 + $49 thing goin' on...

So really this isn't anything...not worth my effort if the next sale is going to have them for 
those prices anyways...

I don't frequent KVR and so I was not aware of their $49 + $49 things.
 
 
 
 
 
 
I'll get me coat.

you guyz seriously using this ? it woke up my curiousity about this ....really ...

I like it. As a mixing tool.
 
I did an A/B test of the same song starting with clean slate in SONAR and Mixbus and as a final mix I liked Mixbus a little more.
 
The concept for me in 2014 is to get a general instrument EQ balance in SONAR, export based on those EQ settings and then level set in MixBus. IOW, take a 20,30, 40 or more track song and get it exported to more manageable "stems" (i.e. guiars, keys, orch, drums, individual vox etc.) and get a final mix/master in Mixbus.
 
I do not see Mixbus replacing SONAR for me.

I bought it on sale months ago and haven't even used it. Mainly because I just haven't gotten around to it and I still haven't finished the arrangement of most of my current tracks. The trouble is that my working style is that I kind of mix and track and arrange all together, and there's rarely a clear cut line between arranging and mixing with me because both processes influence each other. I really want to try Mixbus but it's going to take a change in working style, i.e. finalize the arrangement and then begin the mix as a totally separate phase. 
 
I'm interested in what Mixbus does to the sound. All I've heard talked about so far is tape saturation and possibly better stereo imaging (presumably down to the console emulation introducing left/right imperfections?)

How it (Mixbus) sounds will ALWAYS be a matter of taste I'm sure.
 
I happen to like it a little bit better than SONAR is what I believed to be a simpleton's test.
 
In another (actually my first) I took a 16 track song that I had previously mixed and started both a new Mixbus and SONAR project. I imported the 16 "raw" tracks into booth projects. Set everything to unity and then mixed the song in SONAR. Then taking note of the levels (-2db on guitar, -6db on the vox etc) I set Mixbus levels identical to SONAR.
 
Then I exported both as 24/44.1 wav files.
 
So remember, there are no EQ changes, no compression, no verb. NADA. ZIP. NONE.
 
In an A/B test I found that Mixbus "sparkled" just a tad more than SONR.
 
YMMV.