Do these guys ever sleep? Maybe it’s just us, but it seem like the people at Waves keep on delivering great new products we can’t live without. Their 360° Surround Tools bundle was a huge hit when introduced in 2003 for those working in the Pro Tools world. Now this same bundle is available for Cubase and Nuendo native systems, as well, which is cool with us. As the winner of EQ magazine’s Blue Ribbon Award for Best Plug-In and the Musikmesse International Press Award, Waves 360° Surround Tools Bundle is built around nine no-compromise processors designed from the ground up for surround production, including:
- S360° Surround Panner offers control of width and rotation
- S360° Surround Imager let you place you audio anywhere within the full surround mix with precision and distance control
- R360° Surround Reverb delivers six channels of perfectly decorrelated rich, smooth ambience.
- C360° Surround Compressor
- L360° Surround Limiter (with the power of the L2 Ultramaximizer in surround)
- M360° Surround Manager for calibrating your sound system for all industry standard surround release formats
- Surround Mixdown for downmixing
- Lowpass Filter for LFE
- Bit Requantizer for increasing resolution
Waves has also made SoundShifter, which is regarded as the most advanced pitch and time shifter on the market, available separately from the company’s Transform Bundle. SoundShifter has been widely praised for its unmatched clarity, timing accuracy and lack of artifacts or distortion. It can even be integrated into the Pro Tools Time-Trimmer Tool for seamless edit operation directly on your tracks.
