Like the title says, I'm interested in switching over to Mixbus from Protools. I have the most experience in PT and Reaper, but I want to give mixbus a shot. If I like it enough, I will probably be tracking and mixing my bands next album with it. But right now I just need help with basic navigation.
How do I use my VST's? I have some slate plugins, and stuff like IVGI, and Biasamp that are pretty essential. How do I get those to load in Mixbus?
How do I group tracks together? Or is that where the "mixbus" part comes in?
Edit/preferences/VST , there you give the path to your VST plugin folders, (some vst are installed in multiple folders, give all) set "Scan Time Out" to maximum
then
Edit/preferences/plugins you hit "scan for plugins"
In plugin manager you can set show/hide or favorite your plugs, and other options...
all these refer to Windows
Grouping is easy, just drag a bar on top in mixes or vertical in edit view over the tracks you want to group, name, set color etc....
other way: track bottom little box group name.
Spend some time experimenting before doing real gigs.
hope it helps
Tassy
(04-28-2019, 10:22 PM)DownToEarthAudio Wrote: [ -> ]Like the title says, I'm interested in switching over to Mixbus from Protools. I have the most experience in PT and Reaper, but I want to give mixbus a shot. If I like it enough, I will probably be tracking and mixing my bands next album with it. But right now I just need help with basic navigation.
How do I use my VST's? I have some slate plugins, and stuff like IVGI, and Biasamp that are pretty essential. How do I get those to load in Mixbus?
How do I group tracks together? Or is that where the "mixbus" part comes in?
Search "Harrison Consoles" on Youtube. They have a channel with a mountain of tutorials. I found this extremely helpful. It took WEEKS off the learning curve for me!
There's also a fairly good basic overview tutorial (if you prefer learning from videos) available from Groove3. It has some errors, though (I felt his section on gainstaging in particular made some significant mistakes; the Harrison gainstaging tutorial on youtube is much better and got it all right) but it's only about $30 and worth it to get you up and running quickly. The Harrison tutorials on youtube are generally good, but some of them are outdated now.
Another good resource is the in-depth review of Mixbus by Robert Randolph (aka Admiral Bumblebee) at
http://admiralbumblebee.com/music/2017/1...usion.html. Start with the "Cool Things" links and work your way through the review.
About Groove3 and either paying-to-own or subscribe: if it's not necessary to own the course then it's possible to subscribe to all their videos for a month, and unsubscribe at the end of the month.
I find that taking notes while viewing videos is the best, as reviewing a video can get tiresome when all you want is getting to a specific point (that hopefully you have noted down in the first place
)
In this context, a month intensive using Groove3 subscription could be beneficial. You also have access to all other videos, so once you're comfortable with Mixbus (and have taken notes and possibly tried things out and asked other questions here) you can see about other topics of interest.
Don't forget to unsubscribe !
(04-29-2019, 08:15 AM)bjohnh Wrote: [ -> ]The Harrison tutorials on youtube are generally good, but some of them are outdated now.
That's true. A lot of them go back to early versions of the program. But they're still helpful for the basic stuff, a lot of which hasn't changed much since then. The gas pedal, brake, and steering wheel are all in the same place!