Add in other proprietary VST's such as compressors, verbs and delays, and you can end up paying substantial money for just the plugs alone. if you want to purchase MixBus plugs, you'll pay more for one EQ than you will the entire platform. I haven't yet tried V4.Īnd, Bos brought up a good point.
#Mixbus forum series
I can't tell you the technical details as to why MB has a different sonic vibe than Reaper (or for that matter, Samplitude or PT) other than to wager a guess that it has something to do with the coding of the audio engine, and, that this was also intentional in an effort to make an emulation of a real Harrison 32 Series desk.Īlthough, I personally found V3 to be somewhat "clunky" in the GUI. There are some things I do like about MixBus it definitely has an analog vibe to it that I don't believe Reaper has. I just don't know enough about Linux to commemt on how well a certain platform will work on it. Mixbus is very interesting I just can't comment on it yet. As someone who uses several different computers I like reapers fair licensing policy.
#Mixbus forum code
It is open source so it's editable on a code level if that's your thing. If your doing mainly audio work (not midi) and have some effects that are third party reaper is a solid choice. Overall it's my second or third daw of choice next to Samplitude, PT, audition, with audition being very clean sounding, having great effects, and spectral editing. Not sure how well midi works with it either. I found it's vsti stuff confusing and didn't bother with them. Something I disliked in Audition as well. I find it's stock pluggins weak, and I dislike the menu based selection, which seems antiquated.
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(Summing based on subjective listening) it's also got some cool, imho, page based features for mastering making it easy to make mix tweaks, in the middle of a mastering session, by essentially "freezing" your mix session on a page sepearte from the mastering session, easily acessable by tab.
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I find it's summing to be pretty good, not perfect, on par with digital performer and cubase ect, if not slightly better. It also does multichannel and high sample rates (11.1? 384k+). It's sound is clean, although not quite as much (clarity or headroom) as Samplitude or audition. Bussing and auxes maybe not so intuitive but I never even got that far. I find it's metering good, and basic operation easy to jump into- editing, track creation/enabling, mixdown/rendering.
#Mixbus forum windows
I've had good luck with reaper on all sorts of low power windows machines. I have no experience with Mixbus, but know a couple members here like it.
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#Mixbus forum driver
Samplitude is in a different league (as it should be when you compare the price brackets), and I won't elaborate further on it here, other than saying that it constantly makes you realise what is missing from the lower-cost DAWs.Īll these DAWs are interface-independent, so other than a quick compatibility and driver check before you finally settle on one, you don't need to factor that into your DAW choice. There is a good on-line support community, although it feels a bit disconnected from the product. Reaper takes a while to get used to - for me, it was not immediately intuitive to get beyond the first steps. The stock libraries are somewhat disappointing, particularly in the area of dynamics. Things I like about Reaper are its lightness of demand on the CPU, ease of comping tracks and good graphical manipulation on the screen. The stock compressors work acceptably well, but I don't like the stock EQs - they have the feel of being made to be limiting in operation and difficult to operate on a large screen, probably so that users purchase the add-on fully-graphic EQs at a cost more than double that of the whole package. Things I like about Mixbus 4 are its layout, signal flow, emulation of gain staging, operational convenience (knob per function) and, importantly, its sound. I also use Audacity for simple 2-track capture and topping/tailing.
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I use both Mixbus 4 and Reaper on a PC, but also Samplitude for more demanding jobs.