Waves Spherix Immersive Compressor & Limiter

Waves Spherix Immersive Compressor & Limiter - Immersive Compressor & Limiter Suite | A Lightning-Fast Mixing Workflow Optimized for Dolby Atmos®

Waves Spherix is a plugin suite designed from the ground up for modern immersive mixing environments, including a compressor and a brickwall limiter. It perfectly handles the bed channels in 7.1.4/7.1.2 formats like Dolby Atmos®, offering unprecedented efficiency and intuitive operation. The time-consuming manual adjustments and cumbersome workarounds of the past for complex surround sound fields are now history. With its tailor-made immersive workflow, Spherix lets you focus on creativity, not technical limitations.

This powerful surround sound compressor and limiter allows you to mix with unprecedented speed and precision. Through its innovative zone-based grouping feature, you can make unified adjustments to multiple channels with a single click, such as treating all top channels or side surround channels as a single unit. This not only saves valuable time but also ensures consistency and coherence in dynamic processing across channels. Whether for film sound, game audio, or immersive music production, Spherix provides stable, transparent, and powerful dynamic control, making it an indispensable professional tool for entering the world of immersive audio.

Key Advantages & Use Cases

Process by Speaker Zones
Intelligently link your channels based on their spatial layout (e.g., Tops, Sides/Rears, or custom Front Wall combinations like L+R, L+R+C, L+R+C+LFE). This allows you to compress or limit an entire speaker zone as a unified bus, instead of tweaking individual channels one by one. Now, with a single action, you can apply uniform dynamics to all channels within each immersive speaker zone.

One-Click Multi-Mono Fine-Tuning
Quickly fine-tune parameter settings for multiple channels with a single mouse click. Using the zone-based channel linking, you can make rapid multi-mono adjustments while preserving the relative settings between channels, significantly enhancing workflow efficiency and intuitiveness.

Exclusive Sidechain Weight Control
Spherix's unique and innovative "Weight" control allows you to precisely adjust the balance and content of the sidechain signal fed into the channel link group. You can freely decide whether channels within a group are more sensitive to a single channel, the entire group, or even all other channels, achieving unprecedented flexibility in dynamic shaping.

Convenient Multi-Channel Metering
Spherix's meters are designed for the fast-paced demands of immersive mixing. The multi-channel display allows you to instantly view the levels and gain reduction of all channels without having to manually switch between them, providing a clear overview of all dynamics at a glance.

Technical Specifications (Tech Specs)

• Plugin Suite Includes: Waves Spherix Compressor, Waves Spherix Limiter
• Supported Channel Formats: Designed for 7.1.2 and 7.1.4 immersive channel formats
• Plugin Formats: VST3, AU, AAX Native
• Sample Rate Support: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192 kHz
• Latency: 0 ms
• Activation: Online activation via the latest version of the Waves Central application (supports local or cloud licenses)
• Operating System Compatibility: Supports the latest Mac OS (Intel & Apple Silicon) and Windows 10/11
• DAW Compatibility: Compatible with all major Digital Audio Workstations that support the aforementioned plugin formats and immersive channel configurations (e.g., Pro Tools Ultimate, Nuendo, Logic Pro, etc.)