04-12-2023, 08:20 AM
Lots of good points raised here.
As of last week, I am no longer an owner but just an employee; so I can't guarantee anything. All I can promise is that I will try to maintain our commitments to cross-platform, personalized support, and other values that we have created with Mixbus. During the purchase process, we had to prove that Mixbus was GPL compliant and was a viable commercial product. Every indication is that they know what they bought and they want to continue it.
Audiotonix has a history of improving brands, not hurting them... SSL itself is a great example. They are a much more innovative company now, than 5 years ago. I'm very jealous of their new developments like the small control-surfaces.
Comparisons to Soundscape don't make sense, in my opinion. SSL bought Sydec for their I/O boxes. By many accounts, Soundscape was an excellent DAW with a very smart featureset(*), but it didn't have nearly the width or depth of features as Mixbus. Furthermore it was windows-only, and at the end of the day it didn't have very many users. It has always been my opinion that a DAW's value increases exponentially as the number of users increase. Soundscape didn't have the platform or staff or breadth of features to support growth, but Mixbus does.
(*) the Audition action is borrowed directly from Soundscape, by the way
As of last week, I am no longer an owner but just an employee; so I can't guarantee anything. All I can promise is that I will try to maintain our commitments to cross-platform, personalized support, and other values that we have created with Mixbus. During the purchase process, we had to prove that Mixbus was GPL compliant and was a viable commercial product. Every indication is that they know what they bought and they want to continue it.
Audiotonix has a history of improving brands, not hurting them... SSL itself is a great example. They are a much more innovative company now, than 5 years ago. I'm very jealous of their new developments like the small control-surfaces.
Comparisons to Soundscape don't make sense, in my opinion. SSL bought Sydec for their I/O boxes. By many accounts, Soundscape was an excellent DAW with a very smart featureset(*), but it didn't have nearly the width or depth of features as Mixbus. Furthermore it was windows-only, and at the end of the day it didn't have very many users. It has always been my opinion that a DAW's value increases exponentially as the number of users increase. Soundscape didn't have the platform or staff or breadth of features to support growth, but Mixbus does.
(*) the Audition action is borrowed directly from Soundscape, by the way