Mixbus, cool! But can I have some help.

Strangedays · October 7, 2009, 1:04pm

I love mixbus, but its a little short on reverbs delays etc. Guess I need some plug ins.

There is one other major thing, I like using Superior Drummer etc AU instruments to make music, is there a way I can get these to work with Mixbus/Ardour?

pedrocortez · May 9, 2011, 11:27am

Hi there,

I’m using Mixbus and just having an i5 Hackintosh system built up almost exactly like your set up. I’m considering which Audio interface to go with - whats your experience of the MOTU 828 with the Hack and Mixbus ? Would love to hear your views

cheers
PeteC

seablade · October 7, 2009, 1:22pm

There is no MIDI support in Mixbus(Other than control surfaces), thus VIs would be a bit pointless. You can route from a virtual instrument host or standalone program INTO mixbus however.

Seablade

geeheeb · October 7, 2009, 3:46pm

Does Mixbus support VST plugins?

roax1 · October 7, 2009, 4:27pm

geeheeb: Ardour does not support VST plugins in Mac OSX, so Mixbus won’t neither.

Benjamin

seablade · October 7, 2009, 10:18pm

Mixbus supports AU plugins for audio processing. It also (I believe, haven’t double checked lately) supports LADSPA plugins. Not sure about LV2 but I wouldn’t bet on it just because of a severe lack of them for OS X at this time.

  Seablade

geeheeb · October 9, 2009, 1:18pm

What about the VST enabler from Audacity?

edyasko · October 9, 2009, 1:25pm

I think it states somewhere in the forums that having the VST enabler installed on OSX will cause Ardour to crash at launch.

Just confirmed on my machine.

geeheeb · October 13, 2009, 3:34pm

thanks everyone for the answers!

nakatano · October 14, 2009, 8:27am

Hi,

Well, I don’t understand no more: does Mixbus run LADSPA plugins or not because it would be a great loss if I couldn’t use all those great SWH or TAP plugins no more with Mixbus (since Ardour can run AU and LADSPA simultaneously !).

Did someone tried this ?

Thanks,
Nakatano

seablade · October 14, 2009, 10:47am

I believe it does, but have not personally tested it. However the SWH plugins have a few issues on OS X that may prevent them from being useful until their init procedure is updated.

    Seablade

dhjoe · October 14, 2009, 11:50am

For me the LADSPAplugins in Mixbus work as well as in the normal version of Ardour.

Johan

nakatano · October 14, 2009, 12:20pm

Great !

Well, I buy it immediatly !

Thanks for answers,
Nakatano

koontakentay · November 24, 2010, 11:35pm

I first got Mixbus and was trying to figure out about the LADSPA plugins for Mac OSX.

I managed to figure out that the LADSPA plugins will work but you have to make sure that you have a build that will work on your system. You could build them yourself if the source code is available if you have the know how, I do not.

So what I did was download the mac OSX Intel install for Ardour and installed it. Then I right clicked and viewed the package contents of the Ardour program package in my Applications folder. Then I copied the the contents of the plugins folder to /Library/Audio/Plugins/LADSPA.

So far, all of the plugins I have tested work in Mixbus.

My system - Intel Core i5 Hackintosh, OSX 10.6.4, Mixbus 1.4.1, MOTU 828 Mk2.

seablade · November 24, 2010, 11:56pm

Correct, most LADSPA plugins will work fine, provided they are up to date and compiled correctly obviously.

   Seablade