Waves Immersive Wrapper

Waves Immersive Wrapper - Software Plugin | Seamlessly Integrate Classic Waves Plugins into Your ATMOS Workflow

The Waves Immersive Wrapper is a revolutionary tool designed to completely change the way you work with immersive audio. When working on an ATMOS mix or other immersive formats, one of the biggest challenges is the lack of the "Bus" concept found in traditional stereo mixing. Since immersive mixes are ultimately output as separate Bed and Object channels, you cannot shape the entire mix uniformly from a single location, making it extremely difficult to achieve a tight, cohesive sound like in a stereo mix.

Now, the Immersive Wrapper completely solves this core challenge of immersive mixing. It can transform any mono Waves plugin into a powerful immersive multi-channel processor. This means you can finally create a complete bus processing setup in your multi-channel or object-based mixes, using your favorite Waves plugins for comprehensive dynamic processing. Through its unique shared internal sidechain system, you can easily add cohesion to your entire mix, seamlessly applying your familiar classic toolchains to complex channel configurations from 7.1.2 to 9.1.6. It now even supports third-party VST3 plugins, bringing unprecedented flexibility and convenience to your creative workflow.

Key Advantages & Use Cases

Solve the Bus Processing Challenge in Immersive Mixing
The Immersive Wrapper allows you, for the first time, to achieve true bus processing in an immersive mix. It can apply any mono Waves plugin or VST3 plugin in a "multi-mono" architecture simultaneously to all channels of a multi-channel track, allowing you to shape the dynamics and tone of the entire immersive soundfield as if you were processing a stereo bus.

Developed with Top Immersive Mixing Engineers
This plugin was developed in close collaboration with industry-recognized leaders in immersive audio—Hans-Martin Buff (Prince, Peter Gabriel) and Yaron Fuchs (John Mayer, Herbie Hancock). Their professional workflows and deep understanding of the needs of immersive mixing ensure that the Immersive Wrapper's features are perfectly aligned with the practical demands of professionals.

Unlock the Potential of the Entire Waves Plugin Library
This tool opens the door to the world of immersive mixing for the vast Waves plugin library. Now, you can use the classic tools you've long trusted in your stereo mixes within your immersive projects, with a fast, convenient, and uncompromising workflow to achieve more musical and detailed processing.

Supports VST3 Plugins
In addition to Waves' own mono plugins, the Immersive Wrapper now also supports VST3 plugins from other manufacturers, greatly expanding your range of tool choices and allowing you to seamlessly integrate third-party effects into your immersive bus processing chain.

Supports All Channel Configurations: From Mono to 9.1.6
The Immersive Wrapper supports all standard track types in immersive mixing, from mono and stereo tracks for Objects, to the standard ATMOS Bed of 7.1.2, and up to 9.1.6 for more advanced workflows. It is also compatible with LCR, Quad, 6.0, and various 5.1, 7.1, and 9.1 surround formats, offering maximum flexibility and compatibility.

Streamline Your Workflow with "Global Groups"
The unique "Global Group" feature allows you to link controls and share sidechains across multiple instances of the Immersive Wrapper on different tracks within your DAW project. This enables you to enjoy an ultimate bus processing workflow in object-based immersive mixes, with operations as simple and intuitive as using a regular plugin.

Achieve Full Mix Compression with Shared Sidechains
For dynamics plugins that support sidechaining, the Immersive Wrapper allows you to share an internal sidechain signal among all Bed and Object channels. This enables you to quickly and easily use bus compression to "glue" your immersive mix together. You can share up to 6 independent sidechain mixes, and you can precisely control how each channel (or group of channels) reacts to the received sidechain signal, and even integrate the External Key function from your DAW.

Technical Specifications (Tech Specs)

• Supported Host Plugin Types: Any Waves plugin with a mono component, and VST3 plugins from other manufacturers.
• Channel Configuration Support: Mono, Stereo, LCR, Quad, 5.1 (all variants), 6.0, 7.1 (all variants), 7.1.2, 9.1 (all variants), up to 9.1.6.
• Processing Architecture: Multi-mono processing architecture.
• Sidechain System: Internal Shared Sidechains.
• Maximum Sidechain Mixes: 6 independent sidechain mixes, shareable across tracks within the project.
• Core Control Features: Global Groups for cross-instance control, customizable group parameter control-linking.
• Co-Developing Engineers: Hans-Martin Buff (Prince, Peter Gabriel), Yaron Fuchs (John Mayer, Herbie Hancock).