Hey guys I'm currently usingg PT for about 2 weeks but I've seen Harrison Mixbuss beingg advertised on audioz and was wondering if it is a worth while DAW to explore. thankks

 

Harrison Mixbus is essentially Ardour with a fancy mixer added.
You can download a fully-suported copy of Ardour for as litte as $1.00:

http://ardour.org/

 

IMO it is not worth.
Only exception if You want to use it on Linux.

it uses too much cpu and still has many bugs.

Studio One, Cubase and Reaper are currently the ones worth trying.
My choice is Cubase.

 

Wow your signature has a sort of mixing chain

Cubase 7
Pro Tools 12
Abelton Live 9
Presonus Studio One 3

Still quenching the thirst

Joke aside it's good to try as many things before you come down to one which suits your needs.

Mixbus is errmm --- a daw. Yes it is, really? They tried to emulate the analog kinda mixing desk in the form of daw. Succeeded? To some extent but there are lot of plugins that can do analog thing much better. Stability wise it has lot of bugs. Say you have two computers with different specs. On one it will be stable but on other it will be a nightmare. But who knows at some point they find a cubase/PT/studio one engineer sitting around jobless and they hire him then in future Mixbus can be promising. The real answer is that engineer will never be found but you keep trying. Everybody has his liking and may be we will see Mixbus v.XYZ on the fifth line of your signature very soon

 

I've written a brief Mixbus 3 review right here on the forum, a while ago.

https://audiosex.pro/threads/mixbus-3-review.19815/

Cheers,

R.

 

Nice detailed review @RMorgan I liked it. And actually I had the similar impression before ditching it. When I said is it really a daw?...I meant it could be more valuable if it was designed as an analog channel strip. I had no stability problem while on MB forum every other thread was about how disappointed the OP was as it crashes a lot, not installed correctly etc. MB team seriously lacking funding or what that they don't hire quality beta testers; support team even themselves used to get stuck while trying to solve someone's problem until the user himself would find some workaround. Then the thread would proudly close stating 'Solved'. It has some nice features and as I said and you too that lots of plugins can do either same or much better but in no way it is ready to be called as a daw despite their assertion.

 

It's not a DAW. Period. It's an external mixing engine with limited DAW capabilities.

If it could at least seamlessly communicate with other DAWs, without the need to export stems into it, so it could fuse into your workflow instead of disrupting it, then I would consider using it again.

 

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I would recommend that you give it a good and fair test run before deciding yea or nay.
It now loads all of my VST and VSTi plug-ins. So far I have never had a project crash.

Like the console like tone without having to load and setup plug-ins to get the same
or similar tone which would also add to the CPU overhead.

Version 3 seems to have improved overall and has added some limited but very useful DAW
features that are good for straight ahead workflow.

1) You have a previous project with audio and/or MIDI that is ready for mixdown.
2) Creating a project from scratch for idea or demo takes.
3) Recording a project from beginning to end (audio or MIDI) for those of us
able to put thoughts to action with limited editing if any.

 

ive always been interested in this but i dont know anyone that has every used it and i know quite a few producers lol. i might install just to check it out