NUGEN Surround Suite (4 Plugins in 1)

$899.00

Surround Suite delivers all the control needed to define, enhance and fine-tune your surround mix to perfection. Achieve natural and coherent upmixing from stereo to 5.1 and 7.1 via Halo Upmix, take advantage of ISL’s transparent True Peak limiting and SEQ-S‘s linear phase EQ in surround modes, and complement your surround workflow with Halo Downmix‘s precise and tweakable downmixing.

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Product Specifications

UPMIX, DOWNMIX & RESHAPE MULTICHANNEL SOUND

Surround Suite delivers all the control needed to define, enhance and fine-tune your surround mix to perfection. Achieve natural and coherent upmixing from stereo to 5.1 and 7.1 via Halo Upmix, take advantage of ISL's transparent True Peak limiting and SEQ-S's linear phase EQ in surround modes, and complement your surround workflow with Halo Downmix's precise and tweakable downmixing.

Halo Upmix

Load up Halo Upmix. Whether you're merely extracting and expanding — or you need a full cinematic surround soundscape, Halo Upmix does it all, intuitively, while giving you the control you need to fine-tune your surround mixes to perfection. Halo's center-channel management includes switchable dialog extraction, making it ideal for all types of audio production, from 2-channel TV sound archiving and restoration to all feature film surround formats. NUGEN Audio's proprietary real-time analysis of your original stereo material pinpoints and extracts locational cues to naturally extend the panorama without introducing artificial reverberation, chorusing, or delay into the downmix, so the native character of your original source remains intact.

Features:

Provides automatic stereo to multichannel audio upmixing
Naturally extends the panorama without introducing artificial reverberation, chorusing, or delay
Surround scope provides a real-time analysis view of audio's energy distribution
Clicking on a channel node lets you mute or solo its output
Supplies full control over center, front, and rear channels
Diffusion is adjustable for a more or less focused sound
Rear-shelf filter pushes a mix forward while leaving energy in the rear channels
Dedicated controls for tailoring the LFE channel
Selectively monitor the original source, upmix, or downmix
Exact feature ensures perfect stereo downmixes
Dedicated I/O panel and comprehensive output metering for each channel
Center-channel management with switchable dialog extraction

Halo Downmix

If you work in surround, you've undoubtedly faced the challenge of producing high-quality downmixes. Halo Downmix is your solution. It completes your surround toolkit, giving you precise surround balancing, mix monitoring, and sophisticated stereo fold-down capabilities. It's the glue that brings your workflow together, allowing you to deliver in surround and stereo with ease and without compromise. We're confident you will, too. It's the perfect complement to your surround workflow.

Features:

Standard and custom surround-to-stereo downmixing
Surround rebalancing and fine-tuning
Simultaneous surround/stereo workflow
Highly customizable interface
Quick-select in-place monitoring of stereo and surround signals
Quick linked solo and mute functions
Immediate and versatile surround/downmix monitoring
Downmix rescue and surround restoration
Stereo production within a surround workflow
Controlling excess ambient energy
Regulating low frequencies
Maintaining dialog clarity
Removing rear-delay artifacts

ISL 2

If you're looking for an affordable way to get truly transparent, standards-compliant brickwall limiting for DIY mastering or broadcast, then you need to check out ISL. Based on the true-peak specifications laid out in the ITU-R B.S. 1770 and related standards, ISL is ideal for taking your content up to the perfect level and protecting it from downstream distortion introduced by lossy MP3 and AAC codecs. With its adjustable look ahead and clear metering, ISL make dialing in your limiting extremely easy and precise. And, if you plan to release your record straight to iTunes or some other internet music distribution service, then you'll really appreciate that NUGEN Audio included Apple's "Mastered for iTunes" true-peak limiting capability in ISL.

Features:

A transparent look-ahead limiter designed to make true-peak compliance easy
Basted on regulation true-peak algorithms of ITU-R B.S. 1770 and related standards
Includes Apple Mastered for iTunes and mono through 5.1 surround modes
Protects against MP3, AAC, and other lossless compression methods
Clear metering and multiple diagnostic listen modes make dialing in your liming easy
Get the perfect setup wit adjustable look ahead time and channel linking

SEQ-S

SEQ-S is a linear-phase spline-match EQ plug-in that delivers robust sonic sculpting and EQ matching in up to 7.1 surround, plus stereo mid-side operation and automated spectrum analysis. Shape and correct your audio with ultra-high resolution not possible with traditional parametric methods. With its direct-draw interface and detailed spectrum analysis, SEQ-S makes it quick and easy to identify problems and fine tune any audio signal. Add in sonic-fingerprinting EQ matching, and SEQ-S gives you a world of unique sound-sculpting possibilities.

Features:

Linear phase technology ensures transparent sound without phase smearing and sharper transients
High-specification match EQ matches different takes and environments
Invert facility allows you to sculpt specific spaces
Mid-side options and multichannel surround compatibility
Individual surround channel access
Easily generate complex curves with curve scaling and smoothing
Intuitive zoomable interface

Product Specifications

Available Formats
AAX, VST3, AU, and AudioSuite are Supported in 64-bit.

NUGEN Audio is in the process of phasing out some older plug-in formats. The most recently updated products no longer support 32-bit or RTAS/VST2. Customers who still wish to use these formats can download a legacy installer from the Build Archive.

Minimum system requirements

Mac OSX 10.9 / 512 MB RAM

Windows 7 / 512 MB RAM