Iosono releases new surround mixing plug-in Anymix

[Leverson]

Ack, I mistyped. I was referring to their auto-gain and EQ functionality when panning, you are correct that it's not auto-pitch (although that would be great too)

[cananball]

I demoed both the anymix and the waves extensively. ultimately I went with the waves because it seems more flexible and was a better value for the money.

that being said I much prefer the way anymix upmixed music. I found it hard to recreate the same musicality with the waves. what I did like about the waves was the more dramatic way it could upmix backgrounds

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[E Baxter Put]

I've been playing with the anymix demo and the waves upmix which I own. The anymix sounds very good on it's own and I like the presets. The waves can sound very close to their presets though. The anymix does use more processing power. The anymix also has a more defined room reverb sound that sounds nice on music.

I will probably just stick with waves for now.

[Fredo]

One of the best features in Anymix is the "distance" algo. If you pan a sound further away, level and EQ are automatically applied. And it sounds extremely realistic. What took hours and hours of EQ-ing and processing, now takes only a few seconds.

Fredo

[HighGain]

Originally Posted by E Baxter Put

.. The anymix also has a more defined room reverb sound that sounds nice on music.

That's because Anymix doesn't add additional reverb but controls just the reverb that is already in the stereo input. I am so happy that i still can use my IR-1 on surround productions be placing Anymix behind it in the insert-chain..

saved me a lot of money

[Henchman]

Originally Posted by Fredo

One of the best features in Anymix is the "distance" algo. If you pan a sound further away, level and EQ are automatically applied. And it sounds extremely realistic. What took hours and hours of EQ-ing and processing, now takes only a few seconds.

Fredo

If its taking you hours and hours of work to create distance, you re doing something seriously wrong.

[Fredo]

Originally Posted by Henchman

If its taking you hours and hours of work to create distance, you re doing something seriously wrong.

Wrong comparative. I meant hours over a whole movie. And of course that would be a multitude of seconds over a whole movie. But I'm sure you knew what I wanted to say.

Fredo

[soundboy]

So I have finally tried the Anymix plug. I find it natural sounding on up mixing music. I'm testing it against the Waves UM226, and the waves seems to 'add' more to the sound of the up mix than Anymix. The up mix sounded more like the original 2 channel. I haven't played with it's panning functions yet, but they seem interesting, and possibly very useful.

[frenzy]

I'm reviewing Nuendo 6 for a Swedish magazine and have just played around with the built-in Anymix panning tool. First impression is that it sounds fantastic! Love the way it can add depth and distance to a surround pan in no-time, and it's by far the most musical up-mixing tool I've used. It can extract the natural ambiance of a stereo mix and make a very convincing surround mix out of it.

Really cool of Steinberg to implement it for free in Nuendo 6.


Cheers
Fred
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