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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2016 23:29:54 GMT -6
Is it possible to install Mixbus on a USB drive in order to use it on different computers? You mean as a portable app, right? So everything needed is contained on the USB drive and you can start the executable from there... Hm. I guess reaper can do this, never thought about such a Mixbus install. But thinking of it, it might be possible. The audio/midi config is checked and configured at startup, every time. Shouldn't be to hard to figure out a way to accomplish this. I'll investigate this further, i find this quite interesting. Btw. Mixbus is a single user license. This means you are allowed to install it on as many computers as you wish as long as you are the only user. You can install it where you go, e.g. as winetree suggested, for example if you work in another studio, put your license file in the home folder of the user account you are working with and just delete the license file when you leave. (You may uninstall Mixbus from the computer or not. As long as it's unregistered i.e. the license file is absent in the current users home folder, it gives frequent noise bursts.) Btw., Installation and licensing is done fast and does not need internet access.
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Post by keymod on Mar 14, 2016 3:42:45 GMT -6
Yes, correct - as a portable app. Would save time installing/un-installing it on the other machines.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2016 21:02:57 GMT -6
Yes, correct - as a portable app. Would save time installing/un-installing it on the other machines. So i tested a portable start in a fresh virtual machine. I used an Oracle VirtualBox virtual machine with a fresh XP install and copied the /program files(x86)/Mixbus3 folder to the virtual machine share network folder. (The 32 bit install. The 64bit install is in the /program files/Mixbus3 folder.) I started the Mixbus3/bin/mixbus.exe in the virtual machine and it starts up fine. I just tested to add tracks, a LV2 reverb plugin opened the mixer window etc. and saved a session, works. You will be asked for the license file(s) on startup. So you still have to copy these in the users home folder on the host machine to use Mixbus (and delete them when you leave the host machine when in another studio...). There is no way around this i guess, it is the licensing process and finding ways around this might not be legal in many countries. (Including where i live...) But sure - this is no obstacle. So there is no full install needed - it runs right from the folder without further action. Of course using vst plugins may need additional configuration in the mixbus preferences. I did not check, if this works with relative paths.... But there should be no problem with the integrated ladspa and LV2 harrison plugins. What i tried, this works. I guess this will also work with the 64bit install folder the same way. But i could not check this, because right now i have no 64bit Windows in a virtual machine for testing. I guess this is quite good news for the versatility of mixbus....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2016 21:09:51 GMT -6
With some simple batch files with simple copy/delete instructions it may be possible to install the license files on the host machine and start mixbus with one click and another batch file might uninstall the license files when you leave. May be a convenient way to work on other peoples machines.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2016 21:13:36 GMT -6
If you need further help with this, feel free to ask. I might do a USB stick preparation for myself, too, and could share detailed instructions and batch files for these tasks then.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2016 4:27:44 GMT -6
I want to follow up on the last topic - Mixbus on a stick. This is definitely possible. I began to work on this last week. AVLinux had an update in march, after years of no releases. And it was even totally made from scratch. AND it has Mixbus 3.22 preinstalled! And it works as a live system, a live install disk, pretty complete workstation OS. A great compilation of what you need for studio work. My MOTU AVB 24Ao was instantly recognized and worked out of the box. That crappy pulseaudio with it's bad latency is omitted - a good thing. ALSA and Jack preconfigured. Mixbus worked instantly. A great system to work with. Firefox and Thunderbird for internet, LibreOffice, a vector graphics program, everything you need. And for Video production - cinelerra. A great program, although discontinued, it is extremely versatile and professional. In short- huge value and can be run from a DVD ROM or USB stick. Even better - you can use the "Systemback" software that is used to compile this distribution to make your own distribution - with literally no effort. Include your license files, personal settings, everything, and make your running system a live system and live install distribution disk or stick - as simple as making a backup! BUT, and this is a huge but - graphics driver are a problem with linux realtime kernels, due to AMD and nVidia beeing very uncooperative with driver development in this field. So it did not start up at all in the beginning and i had to make some critical changes to the distri to make it run smooth - and it runs very smooth then. I will work on this this weekend again and come back with details and maybe even with an install medium .iso image for download, that may run on most if not all machines instantly, i achieve this already with integrating low latency but not hard realtime kernels that booted instantly despite mentioned problems. I adopted GRUB2, the bootloader, to integrate these kernels and leaving the options to run the original RT kernel in original configuration and in VESA mode, which also should work out of the box, which can be used fpr lowest latency, if the new kernel should not be low latency enough. Which is probably never needed but on very rare system hardware configurations. So stay tuned. This is something i waited for. The DAW OS that contains everything needed, even for mobile use. Take it with you to another studio, run it whereever you need it. Might be interesting for some of you Mixbus users out there, too.....
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Post by kilroyrock on Apr 22, 2016 6:45:22 GMT -6
I'm curious if Eucon support would be possible or available for any intention? I've spent so much money on controllers that if I was ever to move I'd have to have that functionality translate across? I feel selfish even asking, as Harrison has really felt like a "for the people" kind of company.
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Post by winetree on Apr 22, 2016 12:40:17 GMT -6
Just got Version 3.3 today. They are really on it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2016 9:01:30 GMT -6
Yepp. Looks great from the changelog. I am already in the process to implement several things into my AVLinux 2016 adaption to make it run most probably everywhere. Mixbus 3.3 update is already on the todo list. Our local install on the studio machine's internal HD works great already. Fired 24 outs into the desk and 2 back, in and out of Mixbus under Linux. Worked great with the MOTU 24Ao. Yesterday we tried our fast bootable USB stick with our own live system on 3 machines, today i use it in virtual machines. It booted up on all of them, found the soundcards with USB class compliant interface ready for use in Mixbus, i.e. the 24Ao and the RM Superbeast. Also the M-Audio firewire Lightbridge interface was found. One has to lookup the soundcard/interface manufacturer for linux drivers and lookup into the compatibility list of ALSA. Chances are quite good that many interfaces are automatically found and configured. But still - driver support for Linux isn't great at all from the manufacturers, the ALSA people managed to get the USB class compliance interfaces, the FreeBOB chip based interfaces some RME stuff etc. working without the proprietary stuff from the manufacturers. Some don't even bother to answer mails from the developers, asking for minimal information about the hardware for writing drivers... The multichannel USB class compliant interfaces obviously just work. Great for mixing, don't know how far i can go with latency for recording without analog cue. But with 2048 samples buffer size/2 periods, it ran stable 96kHz with zero x-runs in a project using the emulated mixbus console, simultaneously 28 tracks, 26 physically routed out - 24 to console, 2 to RM Superbeast connected to the 24Ao via SPDIF, 2 channels physically routed in from the console master bus to Mytek converter via ADAT connected to the 24Ao. Just what we wanted with our fixed install of AVLinux. With a fast USB3 stick, our Live system of AVLinux created from this system boots blazing fast and works like a charm. The Live system on the stick loads itself into the RAM, use a fast USB3 or mobile SATA disk, maybe an SSD, for your projects as a write-to disk and you are set. A stick and a mobile disk and you carry your studio with you in a pocket, ready to boot up and run mixbus in the RAM, faster than SSD ... that's the plan...let's see - computers can be bitchy, so i have to test more and fix a few things...
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Post by keymod on Apr 24, 2016 9:34:00 GMT -6
That's awesome. You should get hired by Harrison.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2016 10:57:57 GMT -6
Naaah, this is just what linux is able to do. The Harrison people know that. I guess that nearly all digital console stuff nowadays has a BSDish or Linuxish OS kernel. It is oerfect for embedded stuff, hardware. Linux kernels everywhere, digital consoles, effect devices, synthesizers, NAS, routers, smartphones........ And i am officially out from beeing hired and work for a living, though...this is my hobby. OK, a serious hobby ;-) AVLinux is the ONLY distribution that bundles mixbus. There was a lot of bitching about AVLinux among the guys from other distributions, not only about this. It is just one developer making this distribution, it is based on Debian with parts of Ubuntu and KXstudio, and it has this neat backup program that is able to make live and install DVDs and sticks right out of a running system - from the running system. This guy's idea is just good. And i am sure he put a lot of time into this distribution. It us well thought. I do just a few tweaks to make it more versatile - mostly based on the hints he already gives in the manual - a great one, by the way. Short and to the point. Just like the Mixbus manual. Ideas come while you are at it ... what i do is tweaking it... :-)
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Post by megabrayn on Jun 8, 2018 19:59:53 GMT -6
Does anyone know if the Slate Raven MTI will work with an M-Audio Axiom 61 controller?...since they are both control surfaces...
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