WAVES Immersive Wrapper

Waves Immersive Wrapper is a powerful utility plugin that allows engineers to use their favourite mono plugins in immersive audio formats such as Dolby Atmos and other multichannel mixing environments. By transforming mono-compatible processors into immersive multichannel tools, it brings the familiar workflow of stereo mixing into modern spatial audio production.

Immersive audio sessions are built from multiple beds and objects rather than a single stereo bus, making traditional mix-bus processing difficult to apply consistently. Immersive Wrapper solves this by distributing a mono processor across multiple channels while keeping parameters linked, allowing engineers to apply EQ, compression, saturation and other processing across immersive mixes while maintaining cohesion and balance.

Using a flexible multi-mono architecture, the plugin can automatically distribute a mono processor across channel configurations ranging from mono and stereo through to advanced immersive layouts such as 7.1.4 and 9.1.6. Parameters can be linked globally or grouped by speaker positions (for example front, surround or height channels), providing detailed control of spatial processing.

Integration with Waves Live Systems

Immersive Wrapper can also be used within live mixing workflows via Waves’ plugin hosting environments.

When running in Waves SuperRack Performer or Waves SuperRack SoundGrid, Immersive Wrapper allows engineers to deploy mono-compatible Waves plugins across multiple channels within a rack while maintaining linked control.

This can be particularly useful for:

Applying consistent EQ or dynamics processing across channel groups

Managing multi-channel stems or bus processing

Maintaining consistent tone and dynamics across multiple sources

Creating linked processing across channel groups within live mixing workflows

In SoundGrid systems, the processing can run on dedicated SoundGrid servers, delivering ultra-low latency performance suitable for live production environments.

Key Features

Convert mono plugins into immersive multichannel processors

Supports channel layouts from mono through to 9.1.6

Apply favourite processing tools across Dolby Atmos and immersive mixes

Flexible channel linking and grouping

Shared internal sidechain system for mix-wide dynamics processing

Compatible with Waves plugins and supported VST3 processors

Works within Waves SuperRack Performer and SuperRack SoundGrid environments

Ideal Applications

Dolby Atmos music production

Film and television post-production

Spatial audio and immersive mixing

Multi-channel broadcast production

Live mixing workflows using Waves plugin racks