From Audio Ease Software
360pan suite is a plug-in suite for Windows and macOS designed to deliver up to third order ambisonics mixes for immersive audio: audio from all directions, intended for headphone reproduction, that stays where it is even when you turn your head.
You can do all your panning, distancing and even mixing from within the video window of your DAW (Reaper or Pro Tools HD/Ultimate). There is no need to have any plug-in interfaces open while working.
360pan
Panning and the distancing of sound sources, operated directly from the video window.
360monitor
Look around and listen to your immersive mix while you are making it, instant preview.
360reverb
Convolution reverb with ambisonics impulse responses, helps adding depth to your mix.
360limiter
This true ambisonics limiter enables you to deliver great sounding mixes.
360radar
The radar shows you the location of your audio in your ambisonics mix.
360turner
Rotate or tilt an ambisonics recording so that misalignment and calibration errors of the microphone can be easily corrected.
What is 360pan suite for ?
The 360pan plug-in suite enables you to deliver ambisonics audio, b-format AmbiX audio to be precise.
There are a lot of names for the type video that the 360pan suite can deliver this spatial (or localized, immersive, 3D) audio for:
- 360° video
- VR video
- Virtual Reality video
- Panoramic video
- Spherical video
to name the most common.
These type videos require a soundtrack that can turn when the head of the viewer with VR goggles, head-mounted-device (HMD) on, or his phone, is turned.
There are a number of playback platforms for 360 VR videos.
- Facebook 360
- Oculus Video
- YouTube 360
- SamsungVR
- Jaunt
- Vive
- SteamVR
- Playstation VR
to name a couple.
All of these chose Ambisonics as the technology that allows for the interactively turning audio mix. This means that audio-post folks need to produce ambisonics mixes. Ambisonics mixes are in a format called b-format, which consist of four channels (for first order, nine channels for second order and sixteen channels for third order). B-format comes in two channel orders: AmbiX or FuMa.
YouTube requires AmbiX b-format ambisonics soundtracks, so this is what 360pan delivers.
Facebook requires 2nd order ambisonics, 360pan suite delivers this.
360pan suite currently features the following plug-ins:
- 360pan
- pan your audio to ambisonics using the easy video overlay.
- 360monitor
- monitor ambisonics audio and preview 360 video.
- 360reverb
- first ambisonics convolution reverb
- 360limiter
- a true ambisonics limiter
- 360radar
- see your ambisonics audio in the video overlay.
- 360turner
- easily fix misalignments in ambisonics signals.
- 360fuma to ambix
- convert first order FuMa ambisonics audio to AmbiX.
- 360ambix to fuma
- convert first order AmbiX ambisonics audio to FuMa.
All plug-ins are available in first (1OA), second (2OA) and third order (3OA) variants (four, nine or sixteen channels).
The 360pan suite of plug-ins is protected using a single license. An iLok (second or third generation) USB key can be used however this is not required: the license can also be activated on a machine (computer) using the ilok license manager application. A free ilok.com account is required for this.
- macOS
- macOS 10.8.5 or up, macOS 15 (Sequoia), 14 (Sonoma), 13 (Ventura) and 12 (Monterey) are fully supported.
- On Apple silicon macs (M1/M2/M3/etc) Open Using Rosetta is required.
- on of these supported DAWs:
- Pro Tools 12.8.2 HD (or up, incl. Pro Tools Ulitmate, up to 2024)
- Reaper 5 or up
- Nuendo 7 or up
- Cubase 9 or up
- an iLok.com account (no ilok USB key required)
- Windows
- Windows 8 or up
- on of these supported DAWs:
- Pro Tools 12.8.2 HD (or up, incl. Pro Tools Ulitmate up to 2022) Windows: Pro Tools 2023 & up is not supported. 360pan suite cannot detect the video window. We advice to use Pro Tools 2022 for 360pan suite on Windows.
- Reaper 5 or up
- Nuendo 7 or up
- Cubase 9 or up
- an iLok.com account (no ilok usb key required)
360pan suite 3 requires the ambisonics tracks introduced in Pro Tools HD 12.8.2. This sets the requirement to Pro Tools HD 12.8.2 or up (incl. Pro Tools Ulitmate). If you use an older Pro Tools 12 HD / Pro Tools 11 HD version please use 360pan suite version 2.
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