Finally, the audio output stage now features an excellently implemented Monitor control section, incorporating Mono, Dim, Solo levels, and PFL, AFL and SIP Solo modes. Other improvements include many more options in the top menu bar, including better track zoom presets, and an optional Stacked view for audio and MIDI tracks with layered clips, which reveals the Layers in multiple lanes. And video support has been worked in using the Jadeo video player, incorporating both a floating video window and a Video Timeline in the Ruler. On the navigation front, the new Summary View track at the bottom combines a session tracks overview with drag navigation and zooming. We found this surprisingly effective on a laptop, as, although it makes the visuals quite small, it does away with the constant scrolling and cluttered feel often encountered on a smaller display.
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Great improvements have been made in the graphics department, with MixBus 3 looking far more professional than version 2, and the whole interface automatically rescales to match the currently active screen resolution. The dynamics and EQ can now be repositioned in the signal flow, too, including post fader. We particularly like the new Compressor, which now includes adjustable Ratio and a sidechain input. MixBus 3 also includes new algorithms for the Compressor and Limiter. MIDI is edited by zooming into the piano roll-style MIDI track (alas, there's no dedicated MIDI editor window, though there is a basic List Editor), and various MIDI editing functions are applied by right- clicking the MIDI region. "The lack of MIDI has obviously alienated many potential users in previous versions." This includes the implementation of MIDI tracks for internal instruments and external MIDI output, and two instruments are included: Reasonable Synth and SetBFree Tonewheel Organ, neither of which are particularly impressive.
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The three big additions in MixBus 3 are 64-bit internal operation, support for multicore processors and - most significantly - full MIDI functionality. At $79, MixBus is also very affordable, but bear in mind that it comes with no effects beyond those already discussed.
When editing Regions, their behaviour is influenced by three modes (Slide, Lock and Ripple), and this, along with the software's two main screens - Mixer and Editor - makes MixBus highly reminiscent of Pro Tools. You also get unlimited stereo and mono audio tracks, channel strip grouping, stacking of audio within tracks for multiple takes, multi-lane parameter automation, typical on-track editing features such as crossfading and nudge, and audio region-specific functions like multipoint volume envelopes and normalising/denormalising. Further features carried forward from version 2 include compressor gain reduction metering for all channels and busses, K-System and correlation metering on the master buss, phase invert on channels, and extensive gain staging on each channel via the input trim (+/-20dB), fader (+6 to -inf dB) and compressor make up gain (+10dB).
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