[LAU] Mixbus 32C (based on Ardour) and Reaper shootout

[Robert Edge]

Do you not understand that the channel strip on a digital console is
software?

Harrison Mixbus contained that channel strip.  Not an emulation.  The same
channel strip.  In the same sense that you can run Gverb on a Linux machine
or a Windows machine or a Mac and you are doing the same processing to the
samples.

Mixbus 32C contains an EMULATION of HARDWARE.  Specifically of a well
regarded analog console Harrison used to make in the 70's.

Do you really not understand the distinction?



On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 10:33 AM, jonetsu <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 10:17:16 -0400
> Robert Edge <thumbknucklerocks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Harrison has been mostly in the business of making digital consoles
> > for a couple decades now.
>
> They are also making software products since quite a few years.
>
> > The previous product with the Mixbus name used the EQ, dynamics, and
> > tape saturation algorithms from those consoles, thus literally
> > providing the same channel strip.  Not an emulation, the same thing.
> > At least that is what Harrison claimed.
>
> If the hardware is not there, then it is not the same thing.  Cannot
> be, even if the emulation is 100% accurate, it is not hardware.  Maybe
> very close, though.
>
> Mixbus 32C continues by adding the 32C EQ aspect.
>
> > So yes, the distinction matters.
>
> Hence, the subject line part that states up front: "Mixbus 32C (based on
> Ardour)"
>
> Although hmmmm....  It could be that the Harrison Mixbus 32C product is
> only found embedded in their new hardware consoles and that one would
> have to buy the hardware console to get Mixbus 32C. Then the comparison
> would be a software product, Reaper, versus an embedded software
> product only found within hardware consoles. Wouldn't be a fair
> comparison, wouldn't it.  Not fair for Reaper.  Not fair for the guys
> ending up liking Mixbus 32C and having to spend around $50,000 or
> more and Reaper is not so much at all by a far cry.
>
> In short, it is well stated as it is.
>
>
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