Anyone doing spatial audio (VR/360) w/DP?

[BKK-OZ]

I searched, but couldn’t find any references to anyone doing 360 audio - such as using the FB 360 plugin - with DP.

I’m getting back into DP and I’m a couple of versions away from being up to date, and before I invest in catching up I thought I would see if DP is working with any of the slew of new 360 plugins.

And...
before someone says that I can download the demo version and check for myself, yes, I’m aware that I can do that. I just thought I would appeal to the wisdom and experience of the hive mind first.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[HCMarkus]

Limited surround experience here... just a couple of short documentaries.

Did you see this? It may be of interest: https://www.mixonline.com/sfp/brian-sch ... xperiences

As I said, it’s the Wild West and we’re still figuring out what works and what is distracting. There is obviously a temptation to go whole hog with 3D music and VR, kind of like the emergence of Dolby Digital. But it’s so application-specific. If the music is truly non-diegetic, meaning it is just there to serve the emotion and there is no kind of relationship of the music to the world that it is in, then you can be fairly traditional. It’s there, stereo to the ears.

As soon as you start incorporating surround or 3D music, you are pulling the music from being non-diegetic to being more diegetic. It’s almost on a continuum now. The more you make the user aware that the mix is changing or the location of the instruments is changing, you’re changing the role of the music. We’re still figuring that out—what is awesomely cool, and what is distracting from the story. If the whole purpose to immerse yourself in the music, as far as lending emotional support, plain old stereo seems to work pretty well.

- Brian Scmidt from Mixonline

[BKK-OZ]

Thanks for the reference.
It was an interesting read.

[Don T]

Hello,
In my experience DP is still a little dubious when it comes to surround. It does not recognize some surround plugins as surround. Some surround file formats will import as quad file and will ignore sub/center channels. EQ will not allow independent adjustments to separate channels. Reverb will not allow independent adjustments to separate channels. So de-correlating the audio channels to mitigate summing phase issues is not possible.

SOoooooo, trying out your plugins of choice is the only way. AND, complicated bussing for reverb and EQ may be necessary.

[JSmith1234567]

Hello,
In my experience DP is still a little dubious when it comes to surround. It does not recognize some surround plugins as surround. Some surround file formats will import as quad file and will ignore sub/center channels. EQ will not allow independent adjustments to separate channels. Reverb will not allow independent adjustments to separate channels. So de-correlating the audio channels to mitigate summing phase issues is not possible.

SOoooooo, trying out your plugins of choice is the only way. AND, complicated bussing for reverb and EQ may be necessary.

I tried to demo the Nugen surround plugin awhile ago, which everyone seems to love, with DP, and could not get it to show up in DP.

Nugen was unfortunately no help...I think people stop at ProTools and don't go further.