The monitor section has a SiP cut section where you can set how much non-solod tracks are reduced by. SiP - Solo in place allows you to solo tracks, but instead of muting the non-solod tracks they are simply reduced in volume.Rather than go over all of the features of the monitor section, I’m going to point out a few that I find particularly useful: This means that you can both have a separate monitoring output, and that your monitor section changes do not affect your render. The monitor selection offers you a number of features that happen after your master channel.
If you’re curious about the various metering standards then start here Mixer ListĮach session may optionally use a monitor section. Combined with the loudness analysis features, Mixbus makes targeted delivery less of a hassle, and ‘normal’ music mixing becomes much easier. Many mixing decisions become easier with properly calibrated monitor levels and gain staging. Having the extra meters is a welcomed addition. This is in addition to the VU meter and peak meter that are standard on the busses. Master meter - There’s a second meter on the master channel that can be configured to show K-System, IEC1/DIn, IEC1/Nordic, IEC2/BBC or IEC2/EBU metering standards. If the meter is all the way to the left then the left and right channels have no information in common and sound very disconnected. If the meter is all the way to the right then both sides correlate and the signal is heard as a centered mono image. Stereo correlation meter - This meter shows you the correlation between the left and right channel. The master channel in mixbus has a stereo correlation meter above a configurable extra meter. I do think that if you use the tape saturation then it’s reasonable to suggest running your sessions at 96khz+.ĮDIT (June 7, 2020) - See this article for another view. It would require a ridiculous amount of CPU processing to handle that. I doubt that many users would want every single mixbus to be oversampled enough to handle that. I do wish to make clear that the aliasing is not the fault of the developers. The effect is much less pronounced at higher sample rates. Both peaks should be moving together to the right, when one of them begins to diverse and move towards the left This is aliasing. You can also see that harmonic reflect off the nyquist frequency and move left as the input signal continues to move to the right. So this means that if you have the tape saturation knob at 0.0, then everything below 400hz will have odd harmonics generated, and above 400hz it will only be third harmonic.
I don’t think that this is necessarily the best use of Mixbus, since it’s a fantastic full-fledged DAW in its own right, however it is one of the best aspects of Mixbus. Mixbus is often seen as a program that, after doing all of your work in another DAW, you drop in stems and mix with.