MasterVerb

MasterVerb 5 represents a significant evolution of our popular reverb plug-in. While maintaining the CPU efficiency that was a hallmark of the original MasterVerb, the DSP technology has been greatly enhanced to provide better sound and a much wider palette of sonic spaces.

When a sound is emitted in a particular room, the ear first picks up on the individual echos that occur within the first several hundred milliseconds. These reflections help define the character of a room and the new Early Reflection section in MasterVerb 5 provides a library of several reflection patterns as well as control for delay, size and diffusion of the pattern.

These discrete echoes build up and blend into a diffuse reverb sound (the Late Reverb). MasterVerb provides two different late reverb types and complete size, decay time and damping control to sculpt the perfect ambience!

• NEW- Early reflection section- halls, rooms, plates, chambers, echo, cathedral, nightclub, ping-pong
  
• NEW- Two late reverb types- a silky smooth Hall and a lush Plate algorithm
  
• NEW- 3-band EQ controls for controlling early and late frequency response to simulate a vast range of damping characteristics- anything from muffled to warm and mellow to a bright sizzle
  
• NEW- Triggered envelope control for special effects such as gated and reverse reverb
  
• NEW- Stunning new visual interface design including a 3-D plot of the frequency response over time, early reflection and
late reverb patterns, envelope shape, delay times and early/late damping graphs

• NEW- Up to 192 kHz support
  
• NEW- Brand new presets and enhanced preset management
  
• Comprehensive native support-

Mac OS X - AU/VST/MAS/RTAS
Windows - DX/VST/RTAS

Panorama

Go beyond the limitations of conventional stereo, without using a surround system!

Panorama is a specialized tool for creating stunningly realistic 3-D audio scenes using regular stereo sound. The DSP technology in Panorama reproduces psychoacoustic sound localization and distance cues, allowing you to pan sounds in three dimensions: not just left and right, but up, down, front, back, near, and far.

Panorama combines 3-D audio panning with acoustic environment modeling, including wall reflections, reverberation, distance modeling, and the Doppler pitch effect. While primarily intended for headphone listening, Panorama also includes a crosstalk canceller for playback over conventional stereo loudspeakers.

• Position and move sound in three dimensions
• Uses Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTF) to reproduce binaural sound localization cues.
• Integrated reverberation and distance cues
• Extensive control over dimensions and surface material of all six surfaces of the room
• Doppler pitch effect
• Full automation support for creating moving sounds
• Crosstalk canceller for loudspeaker playback
• NEW- Stunning new visual interface design
• NEW- Preset control for each section
• Up to 96K support
• Comprehensive native support-
Mac OS X - AU/VST/MAS/RTAS
Windows - DX/VST/RTAS

Applications
• Create realistic sound scenes
• Make special 3-D and moving sound effects in conventional stereo productions
• Unique mixing tool - position musical instruments in a virtual space
• Podcasting production - Add an amazing sense of 3-D space to podcast audio
• Essential tool for headphone audio production
• See our Panorama FAQ for a description of the differences between Panorama and WaveSurround, as well as information on how to import your own HRTF data.

Sound examples
Demos labeled “headphones” should be listened to over headphones; demos labels “speakers” should be listened to over stereo loudspeakers.

A helicopter circling around the head is a classic 3-D sound example,
reproduced here using Panorama.

• Helicopter Circling (headphones)


•Helicopter Circling (speakers)

Now the helicopter moves up and down

• Helicopter UpDown (headphones)

The following example has the helicopter flying all around in different directions, demonstrating the Doppler and distance effects.

• Helicopter Fly Around (headphones)

• Helicopter Fly Around (speakers)

The following is a simple battlefield scene. A machine gun is heard on the left, bullets fly by to the right and ricochet, then a shell falls from top right to left resulting in an explosion to the front left. A conventional stereo mix of the same scene is provided for comparison.

• War (stereo)

• War (headphones)

• War (speakers)

The following demonstration uses Panorama as a spatial music mixer. Notice how the Panorama processed sound is more “open”.

• Simple Rock Demo Mix (Stereo)

• Simple Rock Demo Mix (Headphones) - Panorama on each track

• Simple Rock Demo Mix (Speakers) - Panorama on each track

How does it work?
We invite you to download the Panorama manual and look at the section Introduction to 3D Audio and Acoustic Environment Modeling, which discusses such topics as sound localization, HRTFs, binaural synthesis, crosstalk cancelling, and acoustic modeling