I'm glad someone mentioned the 32 bit limitation.  I think I'll pass on it for now.

Curious though, can you route the sends to a soundcard output?

Is this the same 'Harrison' that makes the expensive consoles?

SteveStrummerUK


Is this the same 'Harrison' that makes the expensive consoles?

Steve,


Yes it is....

Thank Larry.

So they've certainly got the pedigree then.

Yes, Yes they do.

Mod Bod


I'm glad someone mentioned the 32 bit limitation.  I think I'll pass on it for now.

Curious though, can you route the sends to a soundcard output?

I'm not very computer savvy and I'm not sure what "32-bit" refers to here... on their Download & Purchase page http://sites.fastspring.com/harrisonconsoles/product/mixbus_23_license, Harrison say "32-bit and 64-bit OS supported" but do they mean Linux only.
Or does the 32-bit limitation refer to the audio driver bit-depth ?

I just bought and i'm checking it for some Sonar Soul prj stems export to feel the sound of Harrison console. Sound very full and round but it's very far to be stable with 3 part plugs. No bad.

Well I have had it for awhile and its nice looking but it is missing more than it has. I got it last year on sale. 

No CS support because no MIDI at all.  Its 32 bit and I have converted all my plugins to 64 bit. No OMF support either so transferring files is a chore. 

Oh it also will crash but considering, it is fairly stable. Audio device support is weird in the sense it seems to need Jack to work yet I'm not sure it really uses it. 

At present all it has going for it is its an analog emulation of a mixing desk.

Overall it seems a bit cobbled together. 

I'm not sure its worth the sale price.
 

John


Well I have had it for awhile and its nice looking but it is missing more than it has. I got it last year on sale. 

No CS support because no MIDI at all.  Its 32 bit and I have converted all my plugins to 64 bit. No OMF support either so transferring files is a chore. 

Oh it also will crash but considering, it is fairly stable. Audio device support is weird in the sense it seems to need Jack to work yet I'm not sure it really uses it. 

At present all it has going for it is its an analog emulation of a mixing desk.

Overall it seems a bit cobbled together. 

I'm not sure its worth the sale price.

 
Excellent review John, thanks for putting that together for us.
 
For me, no MIDI means no drums, so I wouldn't be able to use Mixbus exclusively to take a project from start to finish anyway.
 
Although to be honest, I wasn't really interested in its recording capabilities, more so in trying it out to mix with, especially if the analogue emulation is particularly well implemented. So I'd envisage recording my guitar and bass tracks, and creating my drum parts in SONAR, and then exporting the 'raw' stems to Harrison Mixbus. Considering the cover versions of older metal and punk songs I occasionally participate in, I found this approach quite appealing.
 
However, the big stumbling block for me is the fact that it's 32bit only. Since X1, I've been gradually moving over to 64bit for everything (including opening up older projects and swapping 32bit plug-ins for their 64bit versions wherever available), so much so that I haven't even installed 32bit X2 on my PC. In fact, I just checked, and there are only two 32bit plug-ins I use with Bitbridge in X2 now - the older 1.9.1 version of Voxengo Span and Cakewalk's VC64.
 
So, assuming I'd want to use 3rd party plug-ins in Mixbus, I'd have to go to all the trouble of tracking down and organising all the 32bit versions of my plugs, most of which I've never installed, or even downloaded, in the first place.
 
On reflection, that is maybe just too much of a hassle, even though $39 is making me think very seriously about giving it a go; it's a pity there isn't a demo version available.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Is there still no sidechaining for 3rd party vst's?