How will you route your sound

A friend sold all his UAD and Pro Tools stuff and switched to the Harrison Mixbus software! Because he could get better "analog" sound with the integrated tape saturation and compressors compared with the UAD stuff!

http://www.harrisonconsoles.com/mixbus/ ... index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88pI0KLJXFo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa_o6hmJg3Q
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Audio_Consoles

I found out that you can use Jack Audio for routing between DAW's and apps, you can even route over Ethernet between different computers ( Net Jack ), let's say a little Linux computer running Mixbus and a Mac or Windows PC, similar to MADI.

http://jackaudio.org/
http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/WalkThrough/User/NetJack

The very highend and expensive Harrison Xrange works similar!

http://www.harrisonconsoles.com/joomla/ ... &Itemid=49

Btw, the Mixbus DAW is only 200$, the effects are part of it..

I will tr it for sure!

Hey, that's great that your friend found something that worked for him! Mixbus is very cool in it's own right. I tried Mixbus back in 2009 and though I thought it was a unique approach and sounded OK, I felt that it was a bit convoluted to setup with another DAW and I'm not a fan of Ardour, which it's based on. I tried both methods, setting it up with Jack OSX and then with Soundflower (Is this one actually lossless?) but at the end of the day felt that I'd much rather use my current DAW, outboard and plugins. The sound wasn't bad at all but I'm not sure if it sets out to do much of the same as a lot of the plug-ins from UA or third-parties. If anything, it seems to set out to replace the mixer in other DAW but not negate the need for processors (hence it's support for VST and AU). I have to be honest and state that I was not impressed by it's tape saturation emulations nor work flow. It's a viable option but wasn't for me. Thanks for the info though.

I would imagine Mixbus and the MPC software being a potentially very cool setup. I haven't tried Mixbus is a while though, so maybe it's improved and will work for others.

i find mix bus fun to mix in.. I think because i started mixing on hardware consoles (with it's fixed functions per track) and the limitation or shape per channel is quicker than trying out a bunch of plugins to get your end sound per channel.. I haven't used it for about a year now. But i mite give it another shot. It definitely has a sound.. Which i quite like..