Audio Ease 360pan Suite 3  From Audio Ease

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.