Waves Audio (booth 2722) has announced Immersive Wrapper, a tool that transforms VST3 mono plugins into immersive multichannel processors. As today’s broadcast audio professionals are well aware, the emerging landscape of immersive audio mixing is no longer a bonus but rather an expectation for major productions. This is achieved by combining Waves SuperRack with Immersive Wrapper. Together, they enable productions to mix immersive audio with standard audio plugins in a streamlined manner that has not been possible until now. This unlocks new creative possibilities across music, film, television, streaming and gaming production. Engineers are now empowered to fully leverage their plugin toolbox when crafting an immersive mix.
This tool, which previously enabled any Waves mono-compatible plugin to function as an immersive processor for multichannel and object-based mixing in Dolby Atmos and other immersive formats, now supports VST3 plugins from a wide range of third-party developers when used in studio environments. When used within Waves SuperRack in live broadcast and live concert environments, Immersive Wrapper supports Waves plugins only.
Immersive Wrapper addresses a longstanding limitation in immersive mixing: facilitating mix-wide bus processing with mono plugins across multichannel and object-based formats like Atmos. Now, users can create immersive bus processing setups in multichannel and object-based mixes using their favourite VST3 mono plugins, complete with a shared internal sidechain system for mix-wide dynamics processing.
Waves Immersive Wrapper brings the benefits of dedicated bus processing to Atmos mixes, addressing a key challenge for immersive mixers who have long wanted the ability to shape the overall sound and character of an immersive mix with bus compression, EQ or saturation, just as they are accustomed to applying on a stereo master bus when mixing in two-channel stereo. While the immersive mix is still output to the renderer as separate beds and objects, it works in a control-linked multi-mono configuration to deliver output channel cohesion and a unified feel to mixes from mono up to 9.1.6 channel configurations.
In immersive live broadcast and live shows, users can insert Immersive Wrapper on any slot in SuperRack LiveBox, SuperRack SoundGrid or SuperRack Performer in 5.1.4, 7.1.4 or 9.1.4 rack configurations, then load their chosen Waves mono plugin inside Immersive Wrapper. Immersive Wrapper is bundled with SuperRack LiveBox.
Immersive Wrapper features:
- Supports VST3 plugins by Waves plus other brands, with compatibility for third-party plugins in studio environments
- Supports all track types, from mono to 7.1.2 to 9.1.6
- Create advanced multi-mono configurations
- Flexible linking and relative parameter control
- Cross-track “Global Group” linking over the entire Atmos mix
- Comprehensive shared internal sidechain system
Waves Immersive Wrapper is bundled with Waves SuperRack LiveBox. It is also available for purchase as a perpetual licence as a single plugin, and is included in the Waves Ultimate plugin subscription as well, along with more than 240 additional Waves plugins.
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