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Harrison mixbus reviews windows 8#

Initially, I was rather hoping that it might be possible to cobble together a simulation of Ardour on one screen, Mixbus on a second, with a multitouch screen making Mixbus almost like a real hands on mixer, but the answer to a previous question here revealed that Mixbus doesn’t do multitouch. In AVLinux, I have a similar problem - unable to see the recording source - and need to get around to looking at that.

I still can’t get it to start after a “shut down” ( a variable feast in Win8) and come up working.

Harrison mixbus reviews install#

To get it to see a recording source, I had to install separate JACK and start it up in the correct order.

I have spent the last day or so on the Win 8 machine. The Win7 and Ubuntu installations worked “out of the box” for record and playback with internal sources. These are all Lenovo Thinkpad devices, all different.

Harrison mixbus reviews windows 8#

I took advantage of the offer and, partly because of adventures and accidents on ebay have found myself able to run MixBus on a Windows 8 pen-tablet laptop, a Win7 laptop, a Ubuntu laptop and an AVLinux laptop. I have dabbled in Linux over the years, mainly Slackware, Redhat and then Ubuntu, but the only real active use at the moment is my CentOS backup server which I cobbled together after a disatrous experience with Windows Home server. I come from a Windows broadcasting background and have been mainly a CoolEdit/Audition and Reaper user. Hi guys, perhaps my experiences might be worth mentioning here.

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I know you are not only used to Windows but also do work with programs made for it, i would however tell you to try Mixbus on “any other OS”, such as Linux or OSX, i personally have had over the year i’ve worked with it a great workflow between Ardour3 (record-edit->stem export) and Mixbus2 (final editing-mix-master) with great open source free plugins and a few licenced plugins (from LinuxDSP which are really really great), the downside of using it on Linux is mostly the hardware driver support which is limited to several interfaces, so you have to really know what you are working with, as an add-on you would be practically forgeting about antivirus program, and be using a much friendlier user interface (Ubuntu is quite friendly once you work with it for a while) with a better organized desktop and built in desktop utilities(like what is spaces and exposé in OSX).Īll this might seem as i would be talking you into Linux, it is not my intention however i’ve used it in both systems and in Linux Mixbus runs practically bugless, thats what i really want to say, the essential plugins pack is also just great. Cheers! Telenator: i use dual boot on both my PC’s, using Dream Studio (Ubuntu GNU/Linux) and Win7, so far i’ve found that Mixbus on Windows is way below it’s performance on Linux and also since ardour was not built for windows and its VST enviroment it has several issues with them, one of these is the Mono/Stereo setup of plugins, however there are other things to take into account such as: Mixbus is based on Ardour2, actual release is (as of today) Ardour 3.3, so in Mixbus, “for now” and meanwhile it is based on Ardour2 you can forget about VSTi or Midi recording or editing, although Midi controlling surface is fine. I also thing Ardour is rather charming in its own right, so I plan to start following activities on this board. No matter – I plan to stick around at least for a while in hopes that Harrison can get things sorted in proper time, as I think this new setup does hold much promise. I would buy theirs however, I really only like their multi-band comp and have plenty of perfectly good plugins I know well currently. Forget VSTi (although I’m about to try Legree for this), Mixbus has enough issues with third-party VST plugins already. I have to start up Jack separately from a desktop icon to keep Mixbus from crashing immediately. I’ll conclude by saying that getting started with Mixbus has had loads of problems. Setting this up will be my next dodgy task I suppose!

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I had some previous experience using Harrison Consoles and having that marvelous mixer now in software form and attached to Ardour is a real treat! I should specify here that I intend to do much of my work still using either Reaper or Podium, then somehow import tracks or stems into Mixbus for final processing. In addition to that, I am a Cubase refugee who bailed and switched to Zynewave’s Podium and then added Reaper as a second DAW right after.Īlthough I am extremely happy with both Reaper and Podium, I had been aware of Mixbus for a little while, and with their extreme markdown and sale recently, I jumped – bought Mixbus and became a monthly subscriber as well. I have always liked Ardour from afar, but had no real experience since I am almost exclusively a Windows user. I am a new user of Ardour via my recent purchase of Mixbus. First post here, so I’d like to say Greetings to Everyone.