Harrison Mixbus

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

Mixbus
Developer(s)Harrison Audio Consoles, Ardour contributors
Stable release
7 / April 2021
Operating systemMac OS X 10.4 - 10.6, Linux, Windows (XP Pro or newer)
TypeDigital audio workstation
Websitehttp://mixbus.harrisonconsoles.com/

Mixbus uses a modern DAW model incorporating a "traditional" analog mixing workflow. It has 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 has 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 bands EQ (including a high pass filter), compression (with 3 compressor types), panning, and summing.

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

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

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

See also

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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