Transport and editing options are all laid out at the top of the page. "It's hard not to like Mixbus - Harrison has done a great job with it - its few quirks are easily forgiven."Īudio tracks follow a conventional horizontal arrangement, and automation data of all controls and plug-ins is either superimposed or displayed as additional streams beneath each waveform. The Editor features the channel strip for the currently selected track on the left and timeline, markers, transport and editing options at the top of the screen. There are only two main windows - an Editor and a Mixer. Mixbus could be operated with a two-button mouse (a standard Apple Mighty Mouse just won't do - right- clicking is the only way to access essential pop-down menus), but a three-button mouse with scrollwheel is highly recommended. Working with MixbusĪs first time users of Mixbus, we found the software fairly familiar to use. Linux users can also use LV2 plugs instead of the OS X-only AU. In OS X, Mixbus will scan and recognise AU and LADSPA plug-ins on the system. JACK must be installed first, as it provides the backbone for the DAW, and launching Mixbus will start it up. ![]() Linux users will need to source JACK separately, while OS X users will find it in the installer bundle. Only two files are supplied: an installer and an authorisation file. You can find out more here, or watch the video below.At present, Mixbus can only be purchased as a download from Harrison's website. It’s available in all major workstation formats: AAX, AudioUnit, VST3 and VST. The Harrison 32C channel strip plugin retails at $89, but it’s now carries an introductory price of just $49. While every section has an audition (Ear) button to solo that particular stage, the routing section also provides an audition button for each point in the signal flow between each element. This allows you to listen to the effect of one, two, or all three elements in their assigned order. The Bump button recreates the slight resonance of the original filter, resulting in an extra low-end boost just above the filter’s cutoff frequency.įinally, there’s a Routing section that provides automated routing of the Filters, EQ, and Compressor stages. First of all, they’re overlapping filters and feature a Bump selector on the HPF. Maybe the best kept secret of the channel strip is the Filter section. The high and low bands are shelving, but can be selected as additional proportional-Q bands for more surgical work when Bell is selected. That means that small gain changes provide for provide a fairly wide Q, but push the gain in either direction even more and the Q becomes sharper. It’s a 4 band EQ with the middle 2 bands using a unique proportional-Q design. The EQ section is what originally got the console its rave reviews. ![]() The Compressor section is interesting with 3 quick Mode selections ( Compressor, Leveler, Limiter), a vertical threshold control, vertical gain reduction meter, Makeup Gain and Ratio controls. Input/Output is pretty basic in that it provides ☒4dB of gain (that’s way more than what most plugins provide), a VU meter emulation and a phase selector. Like most channel strip plugins, the 32C is divided into 5 sections – Input/Output, Compressor, EQ, Filters and Routing. Harrison has finally released its 32C as a channel strip plugin that can work on just about any DAW. ![]() While the 32C’s equalizer has been available as a UAD plugin for a while now, and the entire console was modeled in Harrison’s MixBus DAW, most people working on other DAWs haven’t had a chance to experience the emulation of this great console yet- until now. ![]() hits in the 70s and 80s, yet unless you worked on the desk you might not be aware of its various attributes. The original Harrison 32C console was responsible for the sound of so many U.S.
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