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Description

Harrison Mixbus is a distinctive DAW software that brings the analog warmth of a traditional console to your digital audio workstation. Ideal for musicians, producers, and audio engineers who crave a vintage touch in their mixes, Mixbus offers a straightforward interface combined with powerful features that cater to both beginners and pros. With its seamless integration of a digital audio workstation and an analog mixing console, you can achieve a uniquely rich and authentic sound that sets it apart from typical DAWs.

Mixbus is designed to simulate the classic Harrison 32C console, providing you with an intuitive mixer layout that feels familiar and efficient. Its proprietary mix engine delivers high-quality sound, emulating the analog console's dynamics and saturation. This ensures your recordings maintain clarity while benefiting from the warmth and depth that analog processing provides. Furthermore, Mixbus supports a wide range of plugins and offers extensive routing capabilities, making it versatile for diverse music genres and production styles.

Whether you're mixing a live session or producing a studio track, Harrison Mixbus combines the best of both analog and digital worlds, ensuring your projects have the professional polish and character they deserve.

Key Features:

  • Emulates the sound of a Harrison 32C analog console
  • Proprietary mix engine delivering high-quality analog-style processing
  • Intuitive mixer layout with familiar controls
  • Supports VST, AU, and LV2 plugins
  • Sophisticated routing and signal flow capabilities
  • Compatible with macOS, Windows, and Linux
  • Built-in Harrison XT plugins for enhanced production
  • Unlimited MIDI and audio tracks for expansive projects

Reviews

Critic Reviews

Harrison Mixbus Review - YaBo Audio

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Harrison Mixbus is a budget-friendly DAW that promises an analog console feel. It impresses with its sound quality, offering a smoother high end and a richer low end. The intuitive mixer view mimics a traditional soundboard, complete with Harrison's DSP for EQ, compression, and tape saturation, delivering their signature sound. However, it lacks some DAW features, and integration with other platforms like Reaper is limited. Plugin compatibility is also hit or miss, requiring future updates. Despite these drawbacks, for the price, it's a worthwhile tool for adding analog warmth to mixes.

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Straightforward "knob per function" mixer layout based on Harrison's renowned music consoles. Precise emulation based on Harrison's famous analog console circuit designs. Precision algorithms for EQ, Filter, Compression, Analog Tape Saturation, and Summing. The Mixbus engine is internally dithered, ramped, and gain staged so that sound quality is preserved as close to analog as possible. Unlimited stereo or mono input channels, each with unlimited plug-ins, sends, and hardware inserts. (limited only by CPU and disc speed). Unlimited MIDI tracks, each with virtual instrument support, unlimited plug-ins, sends and inserts. Polarity, Input trim, Sweepable 4-band EQ with second order HP and LP filters, Compression, and 12 mix bus sends on every track Mixbus32C has an optimized signal flow with 12 stereo mix buses and a master bus, all featuring Tone controls, Compression, Sidechaining, and Analog Tape Saturation simulation Stereo Master Bus that features Tone controls, Analog Tape Saturation, K-meter, Stereo Correlation Meter, and Limiter. Automatic plug-in delay compensation to support effects such as parallel compression without time misalignment. Comprehensive "at-a-glance" metering with peak, peak hold, and compressor gain reduction visible on every track and bus. Extensive DAW editing features including "Smart Tool", Ripple Edit, and configurable keybindings for nearly every operation. Industry standard plug-in support: Mixbus loads AudioUnit (AU) plug-ins on OSX; and both VST and LV2 plug-ins on all platforms. Mixbus provides professional features such as Loudness Analysis (dBTP+LUFS+LU Range), LTC (SMPTE) generation and sync; video pullup/pulldown. Persistent undo (undo remains possible after closing and reopening a session). Fourth-generation Harrison "True Analog Mixing™" processing engine with enhanced compressor/limiter algorithms; built-in sidechain bussing, and increased plug-in flexibility. Support for video timeline, video window, and audio+video exports. Recording operates like a tape machine: Punch-in on the fly, and use per-track input monitoring just like a multitrack tape machine. Extensive export features including multitrack stem export, simultaneous multi-format exports, multiple export ranges, CD track markers, silence trimming, normalization, and command-line arguments to trigger third-party encoders or file-management scripts. Audio regions are stacked in "layers", and every region fadein/out is a crossfade to the region(s) beneath it. Plugin "pin connection management" provides rich editing of signal-flow through each channel's path, including full support for dual mono, mono-to-stereo, sidechaining, and other advanced flows. The user interface scales to fit your monitor; larger monitors will get bigger knobs and sharper text. Refined workflow and graphics, including scaling and support for HiDPI (Retina) displays. Generic MIDI devices can use "MIDI Learn" to assign MIDI controls directly to on-screen knobs or use MIDI profiles to select many pre-configured device layouts from a pull-down menu. Mackie control protocol is provided for motorized fader controllers, and the Mackie protocols have been extended to ergonomically control the Mixbus channelstrip EQ, compressor, and 8 mixbus sends. Dedicated support is provided for popular devices like the Presonus Faderport, Mackie MCU, and Behringer X-Touch controllers. OSC (Open Sound Control) protocol supports ethernet-based wireless tablet controllers such as TouchOSC and Lemur for iOS and Android to remote-control Mixbus. Lua Scripting: Use the Lua scripting language to automate tasks such as track creation, renaming tracks, adding plugins, or creating "macro" operations. VCA Faders: Use VCA faders to control multiple channel faders at once. A fader can be assigned to multiple remote VCA faders, adding another powerful dimension of control and organization to your mixes. Tempo Ramps and Tempo Maps: Use advanced features to map your live recording's tempo and structure (no need to record to a click!) – or import a tempo map from MIDI. Included Plugins: General-MIDI synthesizer and 2 multi-output sampled drum instruments help you arrange a song immediately, without any other plugin instruments. Over 25 realtime MIDI-filter plug-ins for transposing, velocity scaling, delay effects, channel changing, etc. "SetBfree", a lovingly modeled Tonewheel Organ by x42. Harrison's Dyno-Mite envelope-designer plug-in for drums.

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