New Mac DAW – Harrison Mixbus
30Sep09
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Filed under: Music News, Recording, Software Effects & Audio Processors, Software Synthesizers & Samplers
Harrison, a manufacturer of analog and digital consoles, has announced Mixbus, a Digital Audio Workstation for Mac OS X.
Mixbus is a virtual “analog console” integrated into a full-featured Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). It retails for $79.99.
Details below.
If you’ve used Harrison Mixbus, leave a comment!
Features:
- Straightforward “knob per function” mixer layout based on Harrison’s renowned 32-series and MR-series music consoles.
- Precision DSP algorithms for EQ, Filter, Compression, Analog Tape Saturation, and Summing based on Harrison’s world-renowned large format analog and digital mixing consoles.
- Unlimited stereo or mono input channels (based on available CPU power) featuring High-pass Filter, EQ, Compression, and 4 Mix Bus sends on every channel.
- 4 Stereo Mix Buses (can be used for groups or auxes) featuring Tone controls, Compression, Sidechaining, and Analog Tape Saturation.
- Stereo Master Bus that features Tone controls, Analog Tape Saturation, K-meter, and Limiting to help you make polished mixes.
- Plugin delay compensation to support effects such as parallel compression.
- Comprehensive “at-a-glance” metering with peak, peak hold, and compressor gain reduction visible on every track and bus.
- Extensive DAW features via the Ardour Digital Audio Workstation.
- Supports AudioUnit plugins and any CoreAudio interface.
via BenLoftis
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To describe this product as being extraordinary and unbelievably amazing is an understatement!
During a mix session a few days ago, I mentioned to my assistant that it would be GREAT if a company came out with a software for in-the-box mixing that was a TRUE clone of a REAL recording console. This was on Tuesday, November 3 and on Friday, November 6 about 9 PM EST, I get a call from him saying.. “you are not going to believe this!”, then he gave me a web address to check out. The web address was to the Harrison website. After reading the MixBus information and based on the introductory costs, I decided to purchase MixBus. Played around with it the remainder of the evening and was sold! We will use the MixBus on our next mix project (within 2 weeks) and will be in better position to speak to its capability, flexibility and its compatibility with some high end gear.
We use Logic 9, Apogee interfaces, WAVES Mercury, Mac G5 2.0 (until our 8Core arrives), all the Spectrasonics plugins, NI Komplete 5, Core 2 and Maschine, and Synthogy’s Ivory Grand, etc… A lot of our mix editing is performed on an Intel Macbook Pro.
Didn't Propellerhead Record just do this with its emulated SSL?
MixBus is stunning. The channel strip are simply wonderful, with pristine eq and True analog limiter and compressor. Editing is a lot pro tools like, very easy and intuitive. I simply love it. I work mainly with ableton and logic and i’ve started doing all my final mixes with mixbus. For the price it’s a steal!