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Hardware mixer designers release DAW
Harrison mixing desks have been used to mix many hit records — including tracks by Michael Jackson, ABBA and The Cure — as well as top Hollywood movies like Angels and Demons and The Watchmen. Re-working Ardour (an open source Linux and OSX DAW) with their own DSP algorithms, Harrison have created Mixbus, a full-featured DAW that brings the sound of their large-scale 32- and MR-series desks to OSX. Mixbus provides all of the features of Ardour while adding a 3-band sweepable desk-EQ with high-pass filter, and a built-in compressor/limiter to each channel.

There are four stereo-buses to send your mixes through, each including modelled tape-saturation and a simple, three-band EQ, which both appear on the master bus as well. In order to assist the user in setting the final mix volume, the master bus includes K-Metering, using mastering legend Bob Katz’s loudness-metering standard. As well as using Mixbus to record and mix, users could also employ an audio routing program, such as Jack, to allow its usage as a virtual mixing desk for another DAW. The software supports any core-audio interface, and hosts Audio Units plug-ins. Harrison Mixbus costs $79 (around £50) with no demo-version currently available.

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