Binaural
Binaural 3D Audio | Episode 01 | Introduction
Binaural 3D Audio – Introduction
One of the coolest things I’ve been exploring is Binaural 3D audio. It’s 3D audio for normal headphones, coded in normal stereo. We’re living in a world where people consume most music with earbuds, so I am hoping the modular world will be inspired to give these ‘poor’ people a completely new and immersive experience. In this episode I’d like to showcase the #3DIO Free Space stereo microphone that hears stuff exactly as we hear it. It’s the cheapest model in the 3DIO portfolio, but it can deliver awesome sounds. But you can also experiment for free with the Sennheiser #Orbit VST, now rebranded to #DearVR Micro (https://en-us.sennheiser.com/ambeo-orbit). I am hoping to inspire the modular community to bring a new dimension to the music and help people to stand out on media like BandCamp. It works best with high quality WAV files (and not so good with MP3) so this could be an incentive for people to actually download your albums. Have fun!
Virtual Instrument Library
Audio Brewers Launches Signals ‘Blue’ – RAW Atmospheres
Signals ‘Blue’ by Audio Brewers – Be Amazed!
After countless months of research, development, and art, the Audio Brewers team is proud to announce Signals ‘Blue’. Signals ‘Blue’ is the latest tool to design custom pulses and textures that can conform to any key, be major or minor, and from there, to a plethora of chords with multiple voicings. This way, the resulting texture not only fuels your music with an ambiance, but this ambiance is coherent to the chord progressions as you move through your music.
Unlike other textural libraries in which samples are ready with baked effects or pulses, Audio Brewers decided to create raw textural samples so that YOU would be in control of the results thanks to Audio Brewers’ robust and versatile engine. By having these textures in raw, you will decide how they combine, how they pulse, how they modulate, and which effects are applied – a complete textural Swiss-army knife.
Signals ‘Blue’ Features
- 10 RAW Atmospheres
- Available in Multisamples
- Available in flexible progressions for all Keys (major and minor)
- Available in II-V-I, IV-V-I and IV7-V7-I7
- A total of 120 unique chords
- 50 Tailored Presets
- Recorded in real acoustic Ambisonics
- Mixed and delivered in Ambisonics and Stereo.
- Stereo version included.
- Pristine 24bit / 48kHz resolution.
- Natively compatible with Stereo, Surround, Binaural, VR and any speaker array configuration.*
- Requires full version of Kontakt, v6.2.1 or above.
Ambisonics Version
Audio Brewers’ innovative recording and mixing methods accouche a sound library natively compatible with multi-speaker arrays. This means that no matter your speaker setup, you can dynamically adapt the sound to it and results will always translate with utmost quality. Be it Binaural (headphones), Stereo, Surround, Atmos, Ambix for VR, custom arrays, and even exporting to multiple channel-configurations at once, your mix will always be natural and real.
Ambisonics Version is compatible with DAWs that support multi-channel tracks. This library include a Stereo version at no extra cost!
Find your way with Ambisonics
Ambisonics is a spherical surround format developed in the UK in the 1970s. Unlike stereo and other recording formats, the microphones don’t carry speaker signals, but a representation of a three-dimensional sound field. This allows artists to think of sound as source directions rather than speaker positions, allowing them to easily decode the signal to any speaker-array configuration used for playback.
Audio Brewers are helping you to set up your DAW to empower you to use Ambisonics Sounds. Just follow the link below by selecting your DAW.
- How to decode Ambisonics?
- Compatibility chart
- Steinberg Nuendo / Cubase Pro
- Reaper
- AVID Pro Tools Ultimate
- Logic Pro
- Vienna Ensemble Pro
Stereo Version
Audio Brewers’ method to sound also has a benefit to those who prefer to stick to Stereo. Thanks to Audio Brewers’ recording and mixing techniques, where Audio Brewers respect the microphone positions not only in a left to right fashion, but on a three-dimensional space, the resulting mix is a faithful representation of how sound behaves as it travels to your ears. Instead of having mic positions that layer on top of others, Audio Brewers offer multiple mixes that combine seamlessly with each other in total sonic harmony.
Stereo Version is compatible with every DAW available in the market.
But that’s not all! Because Audio Brewer’s philosophy is to create sample libraries in Ambisonics so that they can be compatible with any speaker-array, Audio Brewers saw the sampling phase as a new challenge and instead of using plugins with reverbs or virtual halls, Audio Brewers partnered with ‘Dust Bowl Cinematic’ and spent a great deal of time to research and develop an acoustic art installation that would reshape sounds in a custom three-dimensional sphere, they called it Pandora.
Pandora has helped to push Audio Brewers’ sampling methods to a new level, and thanks to it, Audio Brewers been able to offer Digitally Processed samples in an organic Ambisonics environment – everything that Audio Brewers captured and mixed was the natural replica of the real acoustic morph.
A full version of Kontakt is needed to load this library. It will NOT work with Kontakt player. Please make sure you own the latest version of Kontakt before purchasing.
About Audio Brewers
Audio Brewers is a sample library developer pioneer in creating products in native Ambisonics. From the recording stage to mixing and delivering, they work exclusively to make sure you have sonically rich content with the utmost fidelity and realism. The company was born as a way to offer new alternatives to musicians, composers, sound designers, and producers to expand the boundaries of their creativity.
Audio Brewers’ libraries offer artists a new perspective in crafting and delivering their art – thanks to the nature of Ambisonics, any composition or sound design project has a spherical property native to the sound itself. This allows creators not only to craft music and sound using new ways to hear in three-dimensional spaces but also helps them deliver their compositions in any speaker array configuration.
From traditional stereo up to multi-channel surround formats, including the newest technologies like Atmos, Binaural, VR or even custom multi-speaker installations, anything is possible.
For artists who have settled with a specific workflow but still want to use our pristine-quality products in their projects, all our Ambisonics libraries also come mixed in stereo. No matter your methods, our samples will adapt to your needs.
Pricing and Availability
Signals ‘Blue’ is available now.
Reverb
Auburn Sounds Launches Panagement 2
Auburn Sounds Panagement 2
Auburn Sounds Panagement 2 is a spatialization plug-in that carefully integrates Binaural positioning, Reverb, and Delay. The effect plugin Panagement is remarkably realistic and also works for unnatural sound shaping. With Panagement’s algorithmic reverb, as opposed to being lush and diffusive, is rather tame and sparse, in order to easily fits in the mix.
Panagement is the spatialization laboratory that has found its way to thousands of studios around the world. Panagement gives you raw power over your stereo tracks.
- The Binaural Distance Panner lets you position a track anywhere in the sound field
- The Reverb increases the realism of distance modeling with automatic early and late reflections
- Width and Tilt open your mix to unforeseen decisions
- The LFO dramatically extends the possibilities (eg: reverb ducking)
- The Binaural Delay revisit the product, allowing more spatial complexity
- Comes with the sought-after PGMT-400 chip mod
Panagement 2 Features
- Binaural panning and Distance modeling,
- Reverb (automatic early and late reflections) with 5 realistic room models,
- Binaural Delay (FULL Edition only),
- LFO that modulates pan/distance/gain/tilt and can duck reverb,
- Stereo Width control,
- Tilt filter for broad mix changes,
- Alternative processing unit with the PGMT-400 mod (FULL Edition only)
Ideas for the use of Panagement 2
- Position a source in the binaural field in one click
- Produce tracks enter/exit the mix, fading into the reverb
- Compose it seem like you are in a real room
- Make lush hall reverbs or realistic rooms
- Create tempo-synced modulations
- Create a delay where each tap is placed binaurally.
Availibility
Panagement 2 is available now. There is special pricing available for a limited time. The tool is a VST2, VST3, AAX, and Audio Unit plug-in both for Windows and macOS.
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