DAW that works completely offline?

[willy_dinglefinger]

I found what I believe will be my solution. It seems that I have a licensed version of Harrison Mixbuss 10 that I've completely forgot that I had, I have been checking it out today. It's just a text file to activate the license, no need to be online, just download it to an USB-stick and bring it to the Mac and activate it. For me that is just a win win.

I haven't really used it before, just something I bought during a sale, but looking around it seems more than capable for my humble needs.

Excellent choice. Mixbus is a cracking DAW of you're coming from a classic studio topology type way of working. I personally never needed anything save the stock processing when using Mixbus.

Audiojunkie mentioned Ardour as well which should tick the necessary boxes if you like Mixbus' jam but want something that isn't locked into that traditional topology.

[noremorse]

I found what I believe will be my solution. It seems that I have a licensed version of Harrison Mixbuss 10 that I've completely forgot that I had, I have been checking it out today. It's just a text file to activate the license, no need to be online, just download it to an USB-stick and bring it to the Mac and activate it. For me that is just a win win.

I haven't really used it before, just something I bought during a sale, but looking around it seems more than capable for my humble needs.

I have bad news for you about Harrison Mixbus. You might be OK with the older version you have, but new version are using Challenge / Response these days, so don't upgrade.

Edit: Now on the other hand, Ardour is an option that doesn't use any authorization and it is essentially Mixbus without the fancy theme.

Well, nothing will ever get updated since the system is up and running to my liking, no new versions of Mac OS, no updating of Mixbus or any new programs, this computer will be frozen in time, and then used as long as possible. Like I said I had the G5 for almost 2 decades.

On my laptop I have a couple of programs that requires that I'm online but on that computer I'm ok with that.

[noremorse]

I found what I believe will be my solution. It seems that I have a licensed version of Harrison Mixbuss 10 that I've completely forgot that I had, I have been checking it out today. It's just a text file to activate the license, no need to be online, just download it to an USB-stick and bring it to the Mac and activate it. For me that is just a win win.

I haven't really used it before, just something I bought during a sale, but looking around it seems more than capable for my humble needs.

Excellent choice. Mixbus is a cracking DAW of you're coming from a classic studio topology type way of working. I personally never needed anything save the stock processing when using Mixbus.

Audiojunkie mentioned Ardour as well which should tick the necessary boxes if you like Mixbus' jam but want something that isn't locked into that traditional topology.

Well I started out back in the eighties in a small studio that had a 16 track reel to reel machine, a plate reverb, a spring reverb and I bought the Alesis Midiverb II. So in a way I'm quite comfortable with the "classic studio topology". I still use 2 reel to reel machines, a 2-track and a 4-track.