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Metro vs Harrison Mixbus

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When comparing Metro vs Harrison Mixbus, the Slant community recommends Harrison Mixbus for most people. In the question“What are the best DAWs? ” Harrison Mixbus is ranked 17th while Metro is ranked 53rd.

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Metro

Harrison Mixbus

Pros

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Minimalist

Metro's interface only includes essential features.

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Stable

Metro has exceptional stability.

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Very small footprint

Metro's minimal UI and lack of bells and whistles makes it very easy on memory.

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Attentive support

When a user reports a bug, it is usually fixed within two days.

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Great MIDI editing

One of the biggest focuses of Metro is high MIDI editing capabilities.

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Has a great overall sound

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Great/intuitive interface

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

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Based off of Ardour

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

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In-Line/Built in analog summing

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

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Proprietary software that contributes to open source

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

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Crossplatform

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.

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Cons

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Only works as a master

When a clip or plugin is interacting with a DAW, the master controls tempo, while the slave's tempo is dictated by the master. Metro only has master capabilities, meaning that plugins or clips with a specific tempo will not sync correctly.