Harrison Mixbus

Harrison Mixbus is a digital audio workstation (DAW) available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems and was released in 2009.[1]

Mixbus
Developer(s)Harrison Audio Consoles, Ardour contributors
Stable release
6 / April 2020
Operating systemMac OS X 10.4 - 10.6, Linux, Windows (XP Pro or newer)
TypeDigital Audio Workstation
Websitehttp://mixbus.harrisonconsoles.com/

Mixbus provides a modern DAW model incorporating a "traditional" analog mixing workflow. It includes built in proprietary analog modeled processing, based on Harrison's 32-series and MR-series analog music consoles.

Mixbus is based on Ardour, the open source DAW,[2] but is sold and marketed commercially by Harrison Audio Consoles

Features of Mixbus
Mixbus mixer window

Mixbus provides all of the features of Ardour, with additional functionality from proprietary DSP,[3] replicating the workflow, signal path and sound of a Harrison console.

Each channel strip in Mixbus features analog modeled 3 band EQ (including a high pass filter), compression (with 3 compressor types), panning, and summing.

It also includes 8 stereo mixbuses featuring tone controls, tape saturation, compression (including a sidechain compressor).

The master bus is similar to the mixbuses but has the additions of a limiter, a K14 meter for loudness monitoring and a stereo correlation meter.

Mixbus features "at-a-glance" metering with peak, peak hold, and compressor gain reduction visible on every track and bus.

Mixbus started out as an audio only workstation. In earlier versions, it also depended on the JACK audio server as its backend. Since version 3, Mixbus now supports both audio and MIDI tracks and it no longer depends on JACK, although JACK can still be used as one of its many audio backends.

Mixbus32c

In 2016, Harrison introduced Mixbus32c. This is largely similar to Mixbus but with upgraded EQ section, with high and low pass filters, which models that of a Harrison 32 series console, as well as including 12 Mixbuses.

Bundled plugins

Mixbus also includes bundled plugins based on Xtools plugins that are part of Harrison Xrange digital consoles. These plugins require users to purchase individual licenses to use them, although they will still process audio which allows Mixbus users to share sessions with other users that have not purchased licenses.

Mixbus bundled plugins use the open source LV2 plugin format.

They include the following:

3rd party plugins

Harrison also promotes some third party LV2 plugins, which are included in the default installation of Mixbus. Similar to Harrison's bundled plugins, these require users to purchase individual licenses. They include:

Control surface support

Mixbus has built-in support for:

See also

List of MIDI editors and sequencers

References
  1. "The Harrison of Digital Audio Workstations". Harrison Consoles. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  2. "Ardour - The Digital Audio Workstation". Ardour. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  3. "Harrison Consoles". Harrison Consoles. Retrieved 5 August 2016.


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