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

Hi Robin,

On 14/08/2025 18:09, Robin Gareus wrote:
> 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,..) ;-)
> 

Makes sense. Thanks for the clarifications :-)

> 
>> 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.

Good!

> 
>> 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.

Also makes sense, thanks for the detailed and clear explanations ;-)

Lorenzo
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