NightliesĪ big difference between Ardour and Mixbus is the mixer. Overall the setup is much better in Ardour I feel. There’s other examples that I’ve encountered, but I think that is sufficient to get my point across.Īrdour also allows having a track being controlled by multiple VCAs like Mixbus. Sometimes I’ll have the whole choir, a soloist section, and each solist individually miced.

A choir is another single ‘instrument’ with multiple multi-miced “instruments”.I will often want to automate the drums as a whole kit, but need to control multiple snare tracks (2-3 mics on a snare) as well. A drumkit is a single instrument that has many single instruments that may be recorded with multiple microphones.This workflow is fantastic when you’re working with instruments that contain multiple tracks of single instruments. It’s become somewhat of a joke during this review (in my discussions with other folks) that I really prefer the ability to assign a VCA to another VCA. LOOK! LOOK!! I’m assigning a VCA to a VCA. Review of Mixbus instruments and MIDI plugins.I won’t be covering all of the differences between Mixbus and Ardour, but I will cover what I feel is fairly important.įirst check over the other posts I’ve written about Mixbus and Ardour. So I’m going to take a moment and give a very short review of Ardour and explain some differences from the Mixbus review I did. According to my time sink logs I’ve spent about 60 hours in Ardour working on a project, and looking at the differences between the current version 5.12. I previously started a review with Ardour, and stopped due to some issues that made it not possible for me to work efficiently.Ĭlearly, as I’ve been using Mixbus 4.1/4.2, Ardour is up to the task of being used and I have been using it. You may also know that Mixbus is based upon Ardour, an open source DAW. If you follow this blog then you’d know that I’ve been reviewing mixbus for “30 days” (more like 2.5 months). Ardour, using the 'Cubasish' colour theme

Ardour 5.12 pirate