Just a joy to work on.Īll in all, thanks Ben and team and hopefully you guys will keep on working on this platform making it better and better. To all of whom who own Pro Tools (HD) rigs and comparable pro level gear / software, including our studios, the $299 + VAT is an absolute steal for what it does.įor those who are familiar with the "sound" of analogue consoles but haven't tried Mixbus (vanilla or 32C), it compares best with a "Neve" type of sound, big, wide, 3D, huge bottom end, beautiful top end. We run 3 extenders + a main unit.įinally, in the run-up to our purchase of the 32C I have read many complaints about pricing / discounts etc. Harrison's implementation of Mackie is deep and amazingly useful. Most of all Pro Tools, the ancient HUI protocol that we use to power our Mackie MCU desk is nothing short of shocking / shambolic. This is a huge shortcoming on all other platforms we use. I am most happy with the Mackie integration. So easy to get something going and super easy to get that "glued together" sound. In other DAWs we make heavy use of Slate VCC, Waves NLS and also some (very) expensive outboard summing gear.Ĭomparing, effort (time spent) vs result (beautiful mix) between the 32C and all our other mixing/analog emu setups, the 32C DAW wins hands down. I understand the argument about digital summing 100% but the Harrison boys (and girls) have done something amazing here. Yes, it is not as "sophisticated" as some other DAWS might be (on paper), however I found it absolutely amazingly simple to switch from Pro Tools 12 and do entire mixes (Pop, RnB, Electronica) straight off and make the sound amazing in no time.īut man, the sound this thing produces with a few tweaks of the EQ / channel strips. Yes, it does crash abit more often than our Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Reason, Studio 1 v3 (all latest versions) but having said that it is workable and no more annoying than any other complex piece of software in the stability departemt (I have been around since Win 3.1 and Commodore/Atari/Amiga previously). There are only two words I'd like to use to summarise my experience with the HM32C - "AMAZING SOUND" (sorry for the caps, couldn't resist) We work 99% in the box nowadays which comes with - as you all know - its blessings as well as its curses. I have just spent a couple of weeks with the new Mixbus 32C (v4) and wanted to share a couple of my experiences.įirst off, I have been producing music since the analog days of the late 1980's but have never mixed on an actual Harrison 32C console. Though admittedly a B- would be more exciting and provocative for discussion the summer heat's got me a bit sloggy.Įpilouge: Smart mode was not newly added! Interesting to read it's now on it's Fourth-gen DSP engine. Will have to try and see if they work on Mixbus 3 install. Last I checked, I couldn't get my Steve Harris LADSPA plugins running on Ardour for Windows. Also interesting how he mentions LV2 and LADSPA support on all platforms. I'm pretty sure no one in the open-source community, or in the Ardour/Mixbus camp, is holding back adoption of the LV2 format by anyone else on Win/OSX. But there's nothing wrong, yet plenty unique and righteous, about Mixbus' exclusive use of the LV2 format. This seemed a diversion from that and was refreshing to read. Sure, they take note of it but in mostly 'press release' form maybe a few positive comments, and some obligatory counter-balancing ones about how it still hasn't quite arrived yet, or how plug-in support holds it back from going neck and neck with the 'big boys', then just leaving it to be lost in the mix. 3 in particular (when it really came into it's own feature-wise), most coverage of Mixbus by mainsteam publications, to me seemed done quite as 'stealthy' as the way he described Harrison entering the DAW game. In my experience, like many others have said, 32C is worth the price difference just for that alone, and I also think it makes standard Mixbus an even better value than ever before considering the lowered asking price. :PĪs DAW's they're both exactly the same save for the 4 additional mixbus channels and enhanced eq section. Not to mention plugin-pin management (He doesn't). He does go on describing it's useful DAW features, of which metering, analysis, export, midi filtering and perhaps even persistent undo functionality are uniquely/exclusively well implemented. since Russ seems pretty sincere about his use of the program. I've read this before, and it's a bit befuddling esp. The reviewer starts, and ends with saying how Mixbus is 'not quite as feature-packed' as 32C. Well it's nice to read some nice words about Mixbus outside of here and a few other forums.
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