Ambisonics specialists Audio Brewers have today released two products, ab vortEx and ab vortEx X (a lite version of ab vortEx made for iOS). ab vortEx is available at the intro price of €69.00, increasing to €89.00 – ends March 15th. ab vortEx X is available for €19.99.
ab vortEx is an ambitious plugin aimed to completely takeover your sound with new colours – from conservative reverb/delay-like behaviours, all the way to completely out-of-this-world sound effects – everything with controlled flow thanks to its viscosity control.
ab vortEx comes with an XY-Pad that can generate completely new and unique results with one click but also puts all the cards over the table by having all the parameters available for you to manipulate or lock.
Six independent fine-tune controls help you colourise your reflections, allowing you to create unique atmospheric sounds by either using the XY Pad or manually adjusting each.
Four Modulators with speeds from a few milliseconds all the way to 20 seconds, as well as min-max boundaries, offer you the possibility to keep most of your controls always in motion.
ab vortEx is compatible with Mono, Stereo, and Ambisonics sources (1OA, 2OA, 3OA) and will output Stereo and Ambisonics signals that can later be decoded to ANY speaker array possible. From Binaural, to Surround and even 7.1.2 that can be subsequently routed to your Dolby Atmos bed.
This means that even if you have a Monophonic recording, you can create a fully three-dimensional space that can embrace you in your Dolby Atmos mix, everything in a matter of seconds! Pretty cool.
ab vortEx’s internals work natively in Ambisonics, meaning you can apply spatial transformations to the sounds you create for accurate psycho-acoustic results… Have your spaces rotate towards any direction whilst you keep your source steady in the middle.
ab vortEx comes with a practical Preset system where you create your presets ONCE, and they are Cross-DAW and Cross-OS compatible! Meaning you can move your presets from Mac to Windows (or vice versa) and even share them with other users!
ab vortEx also comes with a ‘smart troubleshooting’ algorithm, which will check your signal chain and let you know if something is wrong with it.
With ‘ab vortEx’ you can:
- Work completely in Stereo whilst taking advantage of the psycho-acoustic characteristics sound takes when it’s being manipulated three-dimensionally.
- Blow-up a Mono/Stereo sound source to Ambisonics, and subsequently to any Surround, Atmos or Immersive format out there.
- Work natively with any 1st, 2nd or 3rd Order Ambisonics signal.
- Design sound and Mixdown any 1st, 2nd or 3rd Order Ambisonics signals down to Stereo.
ab vortEx is available to PC and Mac users (VST3, AU and AAX. ab vortEx X is available to iPhone and iPad users (standalone and AUv3).
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