Waves nx virtual mix room
So, yes we love the Arturia MatrixBrute, yes we love the OB-6, yes we especially love the Zoom ARQ drum controller, but the Product Of NAMM 2016 – surely a show that will go down in NAMM folklore as the Hardware Synthesizer Show – well that prize might well go to a $49 software plug-in.
We hate the words ‘game changer’ but, there, we just used them, sorry. What’s more, NX also makes it possible to mix in surround, through.
Thanks to a revolutionary new Waves plug-in called NX (Mac/PC), you can put on your headphones and mix in a virtual control room with perfect acoustics no matter where you are.
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Suddenly we were immersed in a full surround environment, again one that tracked your head movement and moved the mix accordingly. Headphones are great for checking details when you’re mixing, but to mix on them exclusively has always been a challenge at least until now. We’d pretty much already used our allotted excitement quota up by this point but then, boom, surround sound. This thing recreates a mixing room inside your headphones and it tracks your head movements via your Mac camera or optional $100 hardware add on, so you move your head and your stereo monitor placement/mix moves accordingly, just like you are sitting in a great mixing room. The plugin emulates the acoustic characteristics of a high-end studio. Waves Nx is a monitoring plugin for music producers who mix with headphones.
So when we put the headphones on us for this demo we were already dismissing its claims and thinking about lunch. Waves Audio is offering an extended 90-day trial version of the Waves Nx (109 value) virtual mix room plugin for digital audio workstations on PC and Mac. When someone at NAMM tells you they’re going to blow your mind, believe me, after 21 years of going to this show you just kind of respond with a shrug.