Today I received a market email from Waves about LoAir and the 360° bundle. What shocked me into this post was just what is included in the 360° bundle. These are the plug-ins now included…
- UM225/226 For the easy creation of surround mixes from stereo tracks. The UM plug-ins are perfect for when you need a 5.0 or 5.1 mix but don’t have access to the multitrack session, and for using stereo sound effects in surround, while maintaining absolute and relative levels.
- Waves Dorrough Meters, developed in association with Dorrough Electronics. The professional stereo and surround metering solution, with familiar interfaces, superfast and accurate response times, average, and peak levels in a single readout for intuitive loudness metering and more.
- LoAir Intelligent subharmonic generation for adding drama and enhancing your LFE channel or automatically creating an LFE channel from 5.0 content.
- C360° Surround Compressor Up to six channels of soft knee compression, with flexible coupling and grouping.
- R360° Surround Reverb True surround reverb with intuitive graphic controls, for realistic rooms and lush tails, in true surround.
- L360° Surround Limiter, based on Waves’ legendary L1 and L2 Ultramaximizers, with dithering and noise-shaping.
- M360° Surround Mixdown/ M360° Surround Manager for easy fold-down in many ITU-compliant formats, including 5.1 to 5.0, 5.1 to LCRS, 5.0 to LCR, and more.
- LFE360° Mono and surround low pass filter, designed especially to optimize LFE channel output.
- MV360° A special surround edition of the acclaimed Waves MV, with low level expansion and high level compression.
- IDR360° Patented psycho-acoustic surround dithering, quantization, and noise shaping.
- S360° Surround Imager/ S360° Surround Panner Surround imaging, distance panning, adjustable rotation, and spatial enhancement that goes way beyond left, right, and center, plus shuffling and early reflection generation to increase low frequency width and perceived depth.
This is now a stunning bundle of plug-ins and as I have said in the past and I believe even more is that the Waves 360° bundle is an essential acquistion for anyone working in surround for broadcast film or music.
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