Waves Offers an Extended 90-Day Demo for the Abbey Road Studio 3 and Nx Virtual Mix Room over Headphones Plugins

At a time when millions of musicians, sound designers, producers and media creatives are restricted to working at home and still need to mix audio for delivery in multiple formats and medias, Waves Audio is offering an extended 90-day demo for the Abbey Road Studio 3 and Nx Virtual Mix Room over Headphones plugins. This allows anyone to try out two cutting-edge solutions for virtualization of studio acoustics when limited to working with headphones, removing the limitations of binaural.

During the Audio Engineering Society’s second International Conference on Headphone Technology (August 27–29, 2019) in San Francisco, Waves Audio will provide a behind-the-scenes look into Waves Nx and licensing opportunities. Waves Nx is a unique binaural rendering technology designed for professional engineers and ported for consumer product integration. Waves Nx features head-tracking and room emulation, including a new, digital twin of a renowned acoustic space.

Waves Audio introduced the Abbey Road Studio 3 plugin, created in collaboration with Abbey Road Studios. Using its Waves Nx 3D audio binaural encoding technology to emulate the acoustics of a space, the new plug-in allows anyone to work with headphones, as if it was inside the Abbey Road Studio 3 Control Room. For music producers, this means the ability to hear the music in the renowned studio, with an emulation of the studio's nearfield stereo monitors, 5.1 or 7.1 setups.

G-Audio, a next generation audio technology company dedicated to enhancing the listening experience for Extended-Reality (XR) and streaming media, launched its Sol Loudness SDK for streaming services, adding to its existing Sol SDK spatial audio rendering for 360° video. This new software solution smooths variations in loudness and provides continuity of perceived sound levels for OTT video and music streaming platforms, allowing platforms to provide a better audio experience for its subscribers.

While Movie theaters are investing millions to upgrade their sound systems to deliver the best possible immersive audio experiences, there is a new company that thinks that you should wear headphones while watching the movie... And they are not selling the headphones. SoundFi is a new "in-theater" mobile app designed to provide 3D binaural audio on headphones, and their new technology is being showcased during the theatrical release of Columbia Pictures' The Equalizer 2 at participating cinemas in LA.