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Add to SafariWhen comparing EnergyXT 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 EnergyXT is ranked 46th.
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Pros
Pro Very quick to start and to put together a track
Pro Low system requirements
This program requires only 512MB RAM and 1.4GHz processing speed.
Pro Multi-track recording
Audio can be recorded to multiple tracks at the same time.
Pro Very easy and efficient to use
Most tasks are very simple and straightforward.
Very clean and intuitive interface. You can do almost anything.
Pro Has a great overall sound
Pro 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
Pro Based off of Ardour
Modified version of the open source Ardour DAW, with Harrison's proprietary interface and software tweaks
Pro In-Line/Built in analog summing
tube and transistor emulation, based on physical consoles made by Harrison
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Cons
Con Outdated
Con No auto-save
While there's no autosave, you can still try to recover your work if EnergyXT crashes from a file named temp_file_name.xt.
Con Vague purpose
EnergyXT is marketed as a DAW, ultra portable studio, DAW extension, and a VST. While the variety of uses is nice, it's hard to understand the best function of this program.
Con Can't fully zoom in and see those eq knobs
Con Proprietary software
This software tramples your freedom.
Con Limited/buggy MIDI support
A problem inherited from Ardour dev base.
