SADie 6 vs Harrison Mixbus

Wonderful editing.

Very intuitive. Crazy to learn. They continually upgrade the system since 1995.

Makes making individual WAS stupidly simple. Helps ease the workflow.

This DAW supports multitrack editing, which allows the recording of many inputs simultaneously.

iZotope is a very respected audio tech company that makes great plugins. SADie 6 is now bundled with a customized iZotope program that has 9 functions. Many of these functions are standard, but other are harder to find, such as pitch-shift, exciter, widener,and analogue delay.

Many parts of the interface are designed as one function per control for ease and simplicity, and are modeled after physical consoles and mixer controls to further that end

Modified version of the open source Ardour DAW, with Harrison's proprietary interface and software tweaks

tube and transistor emulation, based on physical consoles made by Harrison

provides features and bugfixes to upstream Ardour project, and also provides a portion of sales revenue to Ardour's development and administrative maintenance.

has support for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, for 32 and 64 bit. Works with CoreAudio, ASIO, and ALSA, as well as integrated 3rd party/open source routing software support, I.E. jackd on Windows and Linux.