Waves Audio has released the Immersive Wrapper, able to transform any Waves mono-compatible plug-in into an immersive processor for multichannel and object-based mixing in Dolby Atmos or other immersive formats.

Waves Immersive Wrapper brings the benefits of dedicated bus processing to Atmos mixes, able to shape the overall sound and character of a mix with bus compression, EQ or saturation as conventionally applied 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, Immersive Wrapper 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.

Immersive Wrapper opens the mono plug-in across all the channels in the multichannel track. The multi-mono configuration, allows all instances of the plug-in to be control-linked across beds and objects, functioning as a single plug-in. Additionally, the control-linking feature is highly flexible – users can link or unlink specific groups, such as tops or bottoms, while maintaining relative control positions for optimal precision with just a single click.

For dynamics plug-ins, internal sidechains are shared across all the beds and objects, to allow a bus compression glue effect – the chosen dynamics plug-in effectively behaves like a single processor on the bus. Additionally, the shared sidechain system is highly flexible as well, providing users with complete control with just a few clicks.

With Waves’ Immersive Wrapper used across the beds and objects of an immersive music mix, mixers can build a master bus processing plug-in chain, linked and controlled together, with the option of a shared sidechain where appropriate, using all their preferred Waves mono-compatible plug-ins.

Key features:

• Supports all track types, from mono to 7.1.2 to 9.1.6.
• Supports all mono-compatible Waves plug-ins.
• Create advanced multi-mono configurations with flexible linking and relative parameter control.
• Cross-track Global Group linking expands multi-mono functionality to cover an entire immersive mix.
• Comprehensive shared internal sidechain system, for mix-wide dynamics processing.

More: www.waves.com