Re: [LAU] Mixbus 32C (based on Ardour) and Reaper shootout

From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>
Date: Fri Oct 28 2016 - 17:21:51 EEST

On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 16:07 +0200, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
> On fredag 28 oktober 2016 kl. 11:59:10 CEST Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 03:11:56 -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> > > Mixbus is emulating the channel strips from those consoles.
> >
> > A professional mixing console of what vendor ever, build up manly or
> > completely from discrete circuits, is compared with a virtual mixer,
> > that gets the audio signal from a sound card. What exactly is Mixbus
> > "emulating"? Even the layout, design regarding ergonomics is
> > completely irrelevant, since you anyway need to use an external device
> > (mixer, mouse), let alone that the electronic can't be emulated.
>
> They say that they emulates (or are modeling) every resistor and capacitor in
> 32C. This is more and more common everywhere. Look at Line6 Helix and so on.
> :-)
>

You can't emulate the result, if something is missing in the first
place. Before the sound does reach the EQ, it does pass the console's
input and not a sound card. And even if the behaviour should be
emulated, you are not using the same knobs, you need to use a remote, a
mouse or remote mixer. And the console is just a part of the complete
tool chain used by those engineers and artists.

In short, the result of the mix has nearly nothing to do with the used
DAW and its virtual mixer, even the work-flow depends much on external
gear, e.g. if you are using a mouse or a remote mixer, a KORG
nanoKONTROL or such an expensive beast as Paul Davis once mentioned
(IIRC he owns).

Regards,
Ralf
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