Harrison Joins Solid State Logic

Wow.

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

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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:

Cheers,

Keith

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

Dave

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

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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

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