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Originally Posted by Kenton

By his definition, Tui is correct - there is a small difference (-96dB) between the digital addition in MixBus and the digital addition in Logic. When listened to it sounds like the original audio, so I would guess that the difference is due to very slight differences in scaling factors and dithering.

Scaling factor is the most likely suspect from your description. Though if you ran them all at 0dB one would hope think that scaling would not come into play there.

To achieve a better null would require being able to adjust level in 0.0001dB steps or smaller.
This needs corroboration though.

While I don't think you can go to that level, if you double click in the box above the fader in mixbus, you can type in more precise values.

And the upshot of all this?
You may well be able to use MixBus channels as inserts in Logic tracks and then bussing your Logic output stems back into MixBus to get the benefit of the Sat sections - and still retain the Harrison sound.
You won't get all the benefits of the whole MixBus package but the improved sonics from dithering, pan tweaks, gain staging & Sat etc. should be largely retained (if I'm correct).

You are correct, and this is exactly what people have been doing for some time. As I tried to explain earlier, the signal flow path for reading a file off disk vs routing it into Mixbus via Jack is nearly identical. In fact the only thing different is the first step, which should really make no difference. As a result you could do either, import or route via Jack. Some have decided they prefer the route method vs exporting and either dither or losing resolution from some DAWs I have been told, though haven't ever looked into it. In all honesty I would probably export and re-import myself, if I didn't just work in Mixbus cause it is easier for my work.

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