If my understanding is correct, then Harrison are adding a proprietary part of code to the Ardour opensource project, and supporting Ardour substantially in return. Apart from minor UI adaptations, Mixbus are having their own engine, inside Ardour releases that are public code, but specifically made to accomodate the Mixbus engine and probably useless without it. Apparantly, Mixbus is running the identical EQ, Comp/Lim and Saturation FX, that are already built into the channels & buses, more efficiently in the engine itself, while in Ardour, you'd have to add these processors to each strip, and the engine would treat them as plugins each with no synergy gained from identical, pre-defined fx.
On the upside, an empty Ardour session will hardly consume resources, an empty Mixbus session will, so it won't be before a certain scale of project that the design advantage of pre-defined, integrated processors is coming to bear.
Sorry I tried replying to this but I clicked the wrong button so it just looks like I repeated what you said.
The whole purpose behind this thread was not explained properly so I do apologize. All I wanted to say was how about a DW that just opens up and it's ready to go? You have a four-band parametric EQ with high pass and low pass filters a noise gate and a couple of compressors to choose from? Right out of the gate you're set to go and if none of those things on the mixer can fulfill what you need on a certain track then you can go to the outboard which they do in real studios or plugins? Just instead of a dry clean slate especially for somebody new to music, everybody has seen what a mixing console look like either watching TV or a movie or if you musician and you've been in the studio. I know for me way back because I'm up there in age I'm used to seeing the consoles so when I came to computers I didn't know what I was looking at.
But if the average new guy the audio opens up a DAW and everything is there to go that's a great way to start and that would encourage them to keep moving on and then eventually they'll learn about plugins and all that but when you give them something to run with I think that makes sense because when I saw the 32C when I won it, I was like this is a game changer.
One thing I did notice about it it was that putting in tracks that were recorded in safer instance Reaper sounded warmer with a more saturated sound. It's funny that I'm saying that now because I just watched a video just one of the shorts on YouTube where a guy said you want to automatically get that analog sound and all he did was put a Pultec EQ plug in emulator on the master bus and then he did the AB and you can hear the difference.
But I'm not going for that I'm just simply saying and I may be contradicting what I said earlier because everyone was coming at me and I was losing my train of thought Yes again age lol But imagine a DAW where you just launched that and you click on the mixer and you see these knobs are to turn that would alter your sound I think that's amazing. I know when I went from analog to digital and I opened up a DAW I didn't know what that heck I was looking at. The thing is I think everyone musicians or not we have all seen what a mixing console look like so for a new guy deciding that hey man I should just dabble in music and he opens up a DW that just reminds him of mixing causes that he seen on TV commercials or in movies or in TV shows or maybe even in person, that sense of excitement wanting to record music just heightens. At least that's what happened for me and that's why I suggested this. Yes it would be nice to have that analog sound but as somebody said earlier who wants to sound like the '70s and hey that's that dude's prerogative but after that person said that I decided to look into all the electronic music all the EDM stuff that seems that everybody wants that saturated tape analog sound so but that's not the reason behind this even though I did contradict myself earlier. I just meant a DW that's fresh out of the box with an equalizer strip a compressor and noise gate.
Statistics: Posted by funkmuscle — Wed Jul 10, 2024 4:08 am