3D PANNER FOR DOLBY ATMOS MIXERS
Hear height and depth before you get to the room.
Dolby Atmos mixing is built around a 7.1.4 speaker room. 3D Panner works on headphones: place sounds around and above the listener with HRTF binaural rendering, and hear your immersive idea long before the session.
How 3D Panner fits an Atmos workflow
3D Panner renders binaural stereo. Your final Dolby Atmos deliverables still come from the Dolby Atmos Renderer or your DAW's built-in Atmos tools. 3D Panner is where you work out the idea on headphones, wherever you are.
Dolby and Dolby Atmos are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.
Where it helps
- Before the session: decide which elements go overhead, behind or wide, so studio time goes on the mix and not on experiments.
- In a home studio without Atmos speakers: hear height and front to back on the headphones you already own.
- For the stereo release: streaming services like Apple Music play Atmos mixes as spatial audio on supported devices. A binaural stereo version made with 3D Panner brings immersion to every platform and every pair of headphones.
What you can do with it
- Place sounds overhead, behind and all around the listener, with no speaker array.
- Move sources with eight built-in LFOs or a path you draw on the XY pad, free-running or synced to your tempo.
- Split a sound into up to eight frequency bands, each with its own limiter.
- Choose from up to 20 different HRTF measurements to find the one that fits your head best.
How to sketch an immersive mix on headphones with 3D Panner
- Load 3D Panner on the stems you plan to spread out: pads, backing vocals, effects and ambience.
- Place them around and above the listener. Keep the lead vocal and the low end in front.
- Try movement with an LFO on one or two elements.
- Write down the positions that work and take them into your Atmos session.
- Or bounce the binaural version as a stereo release for headphone listeners.
QUESTIONS
Does 3D Panner export Dolby Atmos files?
3D Panner renders binaural stereo. Use it to sketch placement and to make headphone-ready stereo versions. Final Atmos masters come from the Dolby Atmos Renderer or your DAW's Atmos tools.
Do I need Dolby Atmos headphones?
No. Any regular headphones or earbuds work.
Which DAWs does it work in?
Any DAW that loads VST3, AU or AAX plugins, including Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase, Studio One and Reaper.
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