![]() Now think of Neve and API and all the others making dedicated DAWs giving you the authentic sound of their consoles and. Just imagine an SSL mixing DAW where you literally have an SSL console emulation, accurate down to the channels and output stage, giving warm hugs to your soft synths and cold loops and snuggling up to your cheap, clean, transparent preamp recordings. I know this is overkill and would be a huge project with collabs from tape machine makers and console makers but in the mean time, at the very least, just the "console channel preamp, then console bus saturation" should be a thing albeit with it's own unique takes by different console companies. And then! I thought to myself, what about creating the analogue studio signal flow? I'm talking preamp (optional), then Tape, then console channel preamp, then console bus saturation, then finally a stereo tape output complete with optional crosstalk and noise. So with all this new software basically providing me with a digital version of a mixing board it started to get the wheels turning in my mind. Now, as a budding young engineer who's never mixed on an analogue board, chasing the analogue sound with saturation plugins like SKnote Bus and Waves NLS Bus and putting tape machine and console emulations on individual tracks and after my master outputs has sufficed in helping me achieve more organic sounding, glued together mixes. The way this works is that the Mix Engine "processes every channel individually at the source and at the summing point, without using redundant resources". ![]() ![]() Around the time Mixbus was gaining traction, Studio One 3.2 came out with the Mix Engine FX feature namely the Console Shaper, which enabled users to insert drive, noise and crosstalk into their mix. However this is where I'll stop glorifying Mixbus, not that it falls short anywhere (been hearing complaints about it not being a full fledged DAW due to composition workflow and so on) but because as stated in the thread title this thread is not about mixbus. ![]() Very similar to Mixcraft in terms of an EQ being built into the mixing section which I found very amazing when I'm halfway through a mix to be able to quickly bump lows and cut mids and add presence to feel instead of meticulously having to open a plugin and change parameters. Alas my laptop can't run it very well but it's still an amazing piece of software in terms of getting close to an analogue mixing experience. ![]()
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