11-26-2014, 06:54 PM
The change I would really like to see in Mixbus is to the 'nudge' function. Forgive me if this has already been covered on this thread or forum, I've not looked through everything.
I would like to be able to move regions earlier or later by very small increments in a similar manner to the 'delay' field on the tracks in Logic. In Logic, on the track there is a field where you can enter a numeric value for the positive or negative delay you require for the regions that are in that track. If you select different regions it will tell you numerically how much you have delayed them by. Additionally, Logic delays by ticks and when you move a region there is no audible artifacts, it just moves in realtime earlier or later and I find this method to be a lot better than the Mixbus nudge. In Mixbus you can nudge by values right down to a sample, so you can do some simple maths depending on your sample rate to nudge by, say, a millisecond. When you nudge it whilst playing the track there are digital clicks as it moves. It is also easy to lose track of what you've nudged to where as there is no display of how far you've nudged away from where it was.
I use the nudge in Mixbus and the delay in Logic a huge amount to change the groove of parts and it's fine doing it in Mixbus with nudge and just relying on your ears, but it's a lot easier in Logic with the delay feature and the digital clicks in Mixbus when you nudge are pretty annoying. I absolutely love using Mixbus and it sounds outstanding, but I find the nudge function to be a bit of a pain.
I would like to be able to move regions earlier or later by very small increments in a similar manner to the 'delay' field on the tracks in Logic. In Logic, on the track there is a field where you can enter a numeric value for the positive or negative delay you require for the regions that are in that track. If you select different regions it will tell you numerically how much you have delayed them by. Additionally, Logic delays by ticks and when you move a region there is no audible artifacts, it just moves in realtime earlier or later and I find this method to be a lot better than the Mixbus nudge. In Mixbus you can nudge by values right down to a sample, so you can do some simple maths depending on your sample rate to nudge by, say, a millisecond. When you nudge it whilst playing the track there are digital clicks as it moves. It is also easy to lose track of what you've nudged to where as there is no display of how far you've nudged away from where it was.
I use the nudge in Mixbus and the delay in Logic a huge amount to change the groove of parts and it's fine doing it in Mixbus with nudge and just relying on your ears, but it's a lot easier in Logic with the delay feature and the digital clicks in Mixbus when you nudge are pretty annoying. I absolutely love using Mixbus and it sounds outstanding, but I find the nudge function to be a bit of a pain.