[dawhead]

Originally Posted by Tui

You see, statements such as this one are the reason why I find it difficult to accept some of your assertions. You and the guys at Harrison make a big spiel how your "proprietary" technology is so different from that of other developers,

Your definition of "big spiel" is interesting too. Harrison released 1 PR about MixBus. Most of the noise about the "technology" comes from people on forums like this, who generally are just guessing at what is going on. Early adopters seemed fascinated at why they felt it sound better than whatever else they were using. I have no real opinion on whether it really did sound better at all, and I'm not sure it matters one way or the other. Nevertheless, quite a few people spent a certain amount of time guessing. You've spent a lot of time trying to debunk their ideas, not Harrison "spiel".

and that it couldn't possibly be made to work inside other DAWs. Yet, you don't provide one shred of evidence to support this idea. Not one diagram, not one audio file, not one patent you could point to. We have to take your word for it.

Nobody even said "extraordinary". Consider the steps involved to take a random DAW and set it up to work like MixBus does. Can it be done? You can get something pretty close to it with the right combination of plugins and a flexible enough routing system. But where will the compressor control be? What if you just want to tweak the midrange? What was involved in setting up the bussing architecture? The people who seem to be enjoying MixBus so far appear to me to be people who don't want to have to think about these questions, because a company that has spent 30 years building music consoles already had a fairly good idea of what is actually needed.

Harrison felt that offering this kind of thing was pretty new and different and would be useful to a broad class of users. If you don't agree, then you're free to ignore it.

You (or anyone else) can also quibble with any particular part of MixBus that you wish too. Perhaps you wish it didn't null with Logic. Perhaps you don't like the compressor. Perhaps the tape saturation is not to your taste. That's all fine - you are free to use another system. MixBus isn't any of these specific details - its the aggregation of them all into a design that reflects what Harrison have learned about the process of mixing music.

When bypassing the EQs, compressors and tape saturation, there is no difference in processing between MixBus and other DAWs.

"When I use MixBus in a way that totally avoids everything that Harrison did to change it from Ardour, it behaves just like Ardour and other DAWs".

Yeah, no argument here.