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Post by drastic on Mar 1, 2022 15:57:26 GMT -6
Anybody here using Mixbus? I finally demo’d the new 32c version last night, pretty cool. Haven’t fully dove in or anything but I dig the console vibe, made sense to me immediately.
Also got an email today saying Mixbus 32c was $99 this week instead of $349, tempting….
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Post by the other mark williams on Mar 1, 2022 16:06:46 GMT -6
Anybody here using Mixbus? I finally demo’d the new 32c version last night, pretty cool. Haven’t fully dove in or anything but I dig the console vibe, made sense to me immediately. Also got an email today saying Mixbus 32c was $99 this week instead of $349, tempting…. paging popmann |
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Post by popmann on Mar 1, 2022 21:35:35 GMT -6
I am using it for mixing. Sounds great. Cut above.
I bought the v7.2 upgrade but, I've not gotten to where I have done anything BUT mix. I will say that I'm disappointed in the LACK of forward movement with the app in the 4 years or however long. They DID rearchitect the compensation engine, which will make it better for those integrating hardware. But, it seems like there are still so many glitchy little things that I'd have hoped 4 years of development might've addressed. When I first bought it (around v4?) I didn't know how old the POS it's based on was...I blamed the little glitchy stuff on being a green engine. They jsut did some sort of "20 years of Ardour" celebration...and my overwhelming thought was "TWO GD DECADES...and it crashes when I close one project and directly open another?" I mean...how does THAT get by? And mind you--this happened on the Macbook AND the Win7 machine and now the Win10 machine. v4.x and now 7.2. Anyway--back then, I was more forgiving like "at least they started with the sound--they'll get this little UI stuff sorted out"...nope. Still regularly resetting the MCU (in the menus of Mixbus) so it will recognize...still have to close and reopen the app to change projects (which is less of a deal than it would be with a Logic/PT/Cubase--it takes literally seconds to launch the app as it scans nothing on startup)...now they implemented VST3, and it has the same issue AU and VST3 always have with the dynanmic allocation of DSP--only unlike Steinberg, they don't give you a way to disable that.
They have never done ARA...which I made the technical case to their head guy is what they should do, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel--let plug in devs take care of tuning and audio quantize--all that kind of stuff. Just give them ARA access to do it. Nada. Now most other DAWs have ARA...and Mixbus doesn't.
So after years...? Mixed feelings. Sound? Brilliant. I can't say enough good about it. But, having this many unintended quirks at 20 years old? Having watched what the Harrison team has worked on in 3-4 years of dev...ehh...I would defend the glitchy when it was young and I thought the DAW engine underneath was just as young. I liked the idea that they started with the SOUND...and were working on function. Good sales pitch, and the first part is obviously true. I just question the project management on the "function"...maybe it's slower than I'd want...small, not coding, company...open source (ie: part time) devs...but...I'm less gung ho. If the playlist comping turns out to be fixed, that will be one big roadblock to working with it beyond mixing.
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Post by drastic on Mar 2, 2022 0:05:27 GMT -6
I am using it for mixing. Sounds great. Cut above. I bought the v7.2 upgrade but, I've not gotten to where I have done anything BUT mix. I will say that I'm disappointed in the LACK of forward movement with the app in the 4 years or however long. They DID rearchitect the compensation engine, which will make it better for those integrating hardware. But, it seems like there are still so many glitchy little things that I'd have hoped 4 years of development might've addressed. When I first bought it (around v4?) I didn't know how old the POS it's based on was...I blamed the little glitchy stuff on being a green engine. They jsut did some sort of "20 years of Ardour" celebration...and my overwhelming thought was "TWO GD DECADES...and it crashes when I close one project and directly open another?" I mean...how does THAT get by? And mind you--this happened on the Macbook AND the Win7 machine and now the Win10 machine. v4.x and now 7.2. Anyway--back then, I was more forgiving like "at least they started with the sound--they'll get this little UI stuff sorted out"...nope. Still regularly resetting the MCU (in the menus of Mixbus) so it will recognize...still have to close and reopen the app to change projects (which is less of a deal than it would be with a Logic/PT/Cubase--it takes literally seconds to launch the app as it scans nothing on startup)...now they implemented VST3, and it has the same issue AU and VST3 always have with the dynanmic allocation of DSP--only unlike Steinberg, they don't give you a way to disable that. They have never done ARA...which I made the technical case to their head guy is what they should do, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel--let plug in devs take care of tuning and audio quantize--all that kind of stuff. Just give them ARA access to do it. Nada. Now most other DAWs have ARA...and Mixbus doesn't. So after years...? Mixed feelings. Sound? Brilliant. I can't say enough good about it. But, having this many unintended quirks at 20 years old? Having watched what the Harrison team has worked on in 3-4 years of dev...ehh...I would defend the glitchy when it was young and I thought the DAW engine underneath was just as young. I liked the idea that they started with the SOUND...and were working on function. Good sales pitch, and the first part is obviously true. I just question the project management on the "function"...maybe it's slower than I'd want...small, not coding, company...open source (ie: part time) devs...but...I'm less gung ho. If the playlist comping turns out to be fixed, that will be one big roadblock to working with it beyond mixing. Gotcha. Thanks for that info! Yeah I was kinda wondering about updates, glitches, etc. I had tried the regular version a long time ago and it was really glitchy for me then, figured I’d give it another shot with this new version. I agree with ya on sound, did a quick mix of something on the demo version and it sounded pretty darn good and I got there easily. I too would probably only use it for mixing. Just not sure if I want to go to another program to do it… Hmmm |
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Post by prene1 on Mar 2, 2022 0:55:17 GMT -6
Great sound but crappy software.
Ardour is capable of being great but man man man too many crappy things that’s frustrating. They should jump to reaper.
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