NUGEN Halo Downmix｜Precision Surround Downmix and Stereo Workflow Core
Seamlessly bridge surround sound and stereo, ensuring your mix is impeccable on any system.
NUGEN Halo Downmix is an industry-leading audio processing tool, specifically designed to address the complex conversion from multi-channel surround sound to stereo. It's not just a simple channel merge, but a crucial tool for ensuring consistency and musicality in your mixes across different playback systems. Whether you're working on film scores, game audio, or immersive music, this plugin offers unparalleled control, completely resolving phase issues, clarity degradation, and spatial distortion often caused by traditional downmixing. Through precise surround downmix algorithms, Halo Downmix significantly enhances the stereo compatibility of your work and provides intuitive mix monitoring tools, giving you confidence at every stage of your creative process and ensuring a flawless final product.
Traditional downmix coefficients often lead to undesirable results, especially when the original surround mix utilized older upmixing techniques. Halo Downmix quickly corrects these issues by controlling excessive diffusion from artificial reverb and removing the illusion of delay in rear channels, resulting in a more cohesive and clearer stereo mix. It completely transforms your workflow, making surround and stereo delivery effortless and uncompromising.
Product Features
- Precise Downmix Control: More than just adhering to standard coefficients, it allows manual fine-tuning of each channel's contribution to the stereo output, including volume, delay, and direct/ambient sound balance, creating a more cohesive stereo mix.
- Enhanced Stereo Compatibility: Effectively resolves excessive diffusion issues caused by older upmixing techniques or too much artificial reverb, and eliminates the illusion of delay in rear channels, ensuring your surround sound productions sound equally excellent on stereo systems.
- Surround-to-Surround Fine-tuning: In Surround-to-Surround mode, subtle adjustments can be made to existing 5.1 or 7.1 mixes. Even without the original mix project files, you can re-balance channels or adjust the direct-to-ambient sound ratio.
- Parallel Workflow Integration: Includes the NUGEN Receive plugin, enabling a parallel surround/stereo workflow. This allows you to A/B compare the full surround mix with the downmixed stereo version in real-time within your DAW, ensuring accurate decisions.
- Intuitive Visual Interface: Provides a clear surround energy distribution map, with all controls presented visually. Features both advanced and compact modes, and offers quick 'in-place' monitoring switching, allowing seamless monitoring between surround and stereo.
- 3D Immersive Audio Extension (Optional): An optional 3D Immersive Extension pack is available, adding downmix capabilities for 7.1.2 channel formats, perfectly meeting the production needs for Dolby Atmos Bed tracks.
Detailed Features & Included Software
Software Purchase Information
- Guarantee: This product comes with an official license key, ensuring successful activation and registration.
- Delivery: The serial number and download information will be sent via email; no physical shipment is required.
- Support: We provide basic technical assistance for installation and activation. In case of activation issues, we will help coordinate with the manufacturer for resolution.
- Warranty: License and download rights are maintained according to the manufacturer’s policy; software updates, upgrades, and version changes are subject to the manufacturer’s announcements.
- Customer Service: For questions regarding license, compatibility, or installation, please contact THINK2 customer support for immediate assistance.
Reminder: Please confirm compatibility with your operating system, DAW, and plugin formats before purchasing. Digital products are not eligible for a standard trial/return period; if you need to modify your order before activation, please contact customer service first.
