Harrison Joins Solid State Logic

[Majik]

Wow.

US Leading Console Brand Harrison Joins Solid State Logic - Solid State Logic

Harrison has utilised their console heritage and know-how to create a range of plug-ins and the MIXBUS DAW

It will be interesting to see how this goes. Hopefully it will result in greater marketing and promotion of MIXBUS and more investment into Ardour.

Cheers,

Keith

[Majik]

A bit of a discussion on the Ardour forums about this.

Including a comment from a Harrison employee, who seems to suggest it’s a positive move:

SSL’s parent company (Audiotonix) purchased Harrison Consoles and we (Harrison) are joining forces with SSL to make a ‘super-group’ (their wording) of analog and digital systems for pro-audio. Details TBA

Harrison is (and I expect will remain) our own brand with our own ethos. Nothing has changed in our development plans, or our staffing.

Mixbus is only one of many products that Harrison makes. Like SSL, we service a lot of different segments of the audio industry, from at-home producers to enterprise-class post and live/broadcast. BUT I think it’s clear that Mixbus was an important consideration for their purchase (it’s the only product mentioned by name in the press release)

Any community support for Mixbus and our open-source development that we can generate, would likely go a long way to accelerate developments on the platform.

Cheers,

Keith

[Dave999]

So Ardour is owned by Mixbus? Is there any difference between the open source version and the paid version of Ardour?

Dave

[Majik]

@Dave999

So Ardour is owned by Mixbus?

No, not at all.

Ardour is owned by the Ardour Devs.

Mixbus could be considered to be a commercial version of Ardour with a bunch of extras. That is owned by Harrison Consoles through a licensing deal with Ardour.

That includes (from a licence perspective) a bunch of Ardour code which is also available under an Open Source Licence.

But, although they come from a similar code base and have many similar features and capabilities, they are also different in many ways.

The primary difference between Ardour and Mixbus could be considered to be the workflow: Ardour is more like a modern DAW whilst Mixbus is more like a traditional analogue console complete with a channel strip which is modelled after a classic analogue console.

But the basic code-base of Mixbus is Ardour, so investment in developing Mixbus results in improvements to Ardour.

Cheers,

Keith

[Majik]

By the way, I believe that (at one time) SSL were talking to the Ardour team about creating an SSL version of Ardour which would have been branded under the SSL marque, but the project never got off the ground.

Cheers,

Keith