[LAU] Re: Harrison Mixbus on Linux still relevant, used?

On 2025-08-14 17:33, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:

> I'm wondering what impact their (now 1 year-old) announcement about not 
> developing plug-ins for Linux any more have on Linux users potentially 
> buying a license? [1]

This pertains to their AVA (AAX, VST, AudioUnit) line of plugins, which 
use recent JUCE/iLok. Since iLok is n/a on Linux (thank $GOD), Linux 
support was dropped. These plugins are developed by a different team, 
unrelated to Mixbus.

> It seems the plug-ins they are referring to are not the ones shipped 
> with mixbus, which if I also understand correctly are 'mixbus only' 
> plugins. 

That is correct. The XT-* line of plugins are LV2, and unrelated to the 
AVA plugins. They do work in Ardour and other LV2 hosts, which is pretty 
much "Mixbus only" (ie not Ableton, Cubase, ProTools, Bitwig, Studio 
One,..) ;-)


> It wouldn't seem to hint to any drop of Linux support in general 

Seeing as all current developers of Harrison Mixbus (and XT.lv2) use 
GNU/Linux, that is indeed not likely to happen.

> Something else I'm also wondering, and I understand this might be a bit 
> more of an 'edge' question, is if / how supporting mixbus by buying it 
> also somehow supports Ardour of if direct support to Ardour is better / 
> preferred.

Harrison supports Ardour financially both indirectly (Paul) and directly 
(me, doing contract work for them). Ardour also benefits from Harrison's 
general expertise that they have in the market since over 50 years.

We tend to think of them as different products. Mixbus introduces 
specific constraints: stereo only signal flow, dedicated EQ, Gate, 
Compressor/Leveler/etc, along with an ergonomic mixer interface. If you 
like that, and it aids your workflow, and you don't mind closed-source 
DSP, use Mixbus.

Cheers!
robin

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