What’s New in 32C v9

v9: New Mixer: New Look, New Sound!

Version 9 provides the first major upgrade to the Mixbus32C mixer since its inception 7 years ago: We’ve updated the sound, look, and operation of the mixer page:

• A new high contrast design with an expanded look and feel of a full-featured analog console strip. You can emulate a life-size console on a 4k TV or monitor.
• A re-engineered 32C EQ that provides an even more accurate recreation of the original 1975 analog circuit, with updated EQ curves and a more accurate text representation of the frequency and gain in the channelstrip text display.
• A new full-featured Compressor on every channel and mixbus, providing all of the sound and control you would expect in a standalone compressor while retaining the popular “mode” selections found in previous versions of Mixbus.  The new ‘Emphasis’ knob allows you to access more vintage character by forcing the compressor to react more quickly to harsh sounds.  The result is smoother mixes!
• An exciting new full-featured Gate/Expander that can tame the bleed in your live tracks, or add more expressive and dynamic articulation to pre-recorded loops and sounds.  The new gate reports its gain-reduction beside the fader, just like the channelstrip compressor.  The reciprocal push/pull action of the reduction LEDs provides great feedback ‘in context’ without having to open any plugins or even the channelstrip element. 
• A new Drive feature on every input channel strip can add harmonic density to bass and vocal tracks, which helps them stand out in a busy mix.
• A high-pass filter on the mixbus ‘tone’ equalizer allows you to filter your instrument groups and effects without visiting each track in the group.  Filtering the bass from unnecessary elements helps to keep your mixes clean and focused.
• 2 Tape Saturation colors are now provided for each of the 12 mixbuses, allowing you a choice of 2 different tape-saturation colors (‘yellow’ and ‘orange’) as well as the ability to disable the tape saturation entirely by disabling both buttons.  The new ‘orange’ mode provides a richer harmonic profile than the old tape saturation, and doesn’t break-up as much when driven hard.
• The Master bus compressor has been re-voiced to work together with the final limiter.  Instead of 3 modes, we now provide a carefully voiced master-bus ‘glue’ compressor with a progressive ratio, Emphasis knob, and internal 3-stage design that follows your track dynamics to gel your mix.

Multi-bus VST3 Instruments

Mixbus now supports multiple optional busses (when defined by a VST3 plugin) and can create appropriately named tracks. Mixbus informs the plugin about the user’s configuration, and smart VST3 plugins can now adapt when your track signal-flow changes.

NEW! “Blonde Bop” Drum Instrument from AVL Drums

“Blonde Bop” by AVL Drumkits is a multisampled drum library provided in two versions: a regular stick version and a super-phat version played with Promark Hot Rods. Like the other AVL drumkits “Red Zeppelin” and “Black Pearl”, Blonde Bop comes in a stereo variant and a multichannel variant with separate channels for kick, snare, hihat, tom, floor tom, cymbals and percussion. Blonde Bop is Included FREE in version 9.

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