Wave Arts releases Panorama

Wave Arts has released Panorama, a specialized tool for creating "stunningly realistic" 3-D audio scenes using conventional stereo sound. The DSP technology in Panorama reproduces psychoacoustic sound localization and distance cues, allowing you to pan sounds in three dimensions: not just left and right, but up, down, front, back, near, and far. Panorama combines 3-D audio panning with acoustic environment modeling, including wall reflections, reverberation, distance modeling, and the Doppler pitch effect.

While primarily intended for headphone listening, Panorama also includes a crosstalk canceller for playback over conventional stereo loudspeakers.

Features:

• Position and move sound in three dimensions.
• Uses Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTF) to reproduce binaural sound localization cues.
• Integrated reverberation and distance cues.
• Extensive control over dimensions and surface material of all six surfaces of the room.
• Doppler pitch effect.
• Full automation support for creating moving sounds.
• Crosstalk canceller for loudspeaker playback.

Applications:

• Create realistic sound scenes.
• Make special 3-D and moving sound effects in conventional stereo productions.
• Unique mixing tool - position musical instruments in a virtual space.
• Essential tool for headphone audio production.

Panorama is available for all native Mac OS X and Windows formats (VST, AU, MAS, DX and RTAS) and costs $249.95. Audio examples and 30-day demo versions are available at the Wave Arts website.