New Surround Bundle from Waves

Oct 10, 2002

Announced at AES, Waves' 360 Surround Toolkit offers a complete set of tools for surround audio production to industry standards. This suite of tools is being released exclusively on DSP for Digidesign Pro Tools|HD and MIX systems on the Macintosh platform.

360 Surround Toolkit consists of seven surround tools for the most impressive surround localization, spatialization, and envelopment, with enhanced panning, reverb, and dynamics: The Surround Manager allows the calibration of a studio setup to all industry standard surround release formats, and includes flexible bass management, while the Surround Reverb includes six channels of completely de-correlated reverberation with special front and rear surround control. The Surround Imager adds distance panning, generating early reflections and shuffling (frequency-dependent localization) for greater LF spatialization. The Surround Limiter is a 6-channel implementation of the L2, and the Surround Compressor provides dynamic compression with flexible channel coupling and grouping for surround applications.

Finally, the Surround Mixdown plug-in allows the derivation of Quad, LCR, Stereo and Mono mixes directly from the surround mix, greatly adding to studio productivity and compatibility between different format mixes of the same material; and the Surround Panner provides rotation and width for any input.

For more information, visit their web site at www.waves.com.