Steinberg Nuendo - 8.0 User Manual
Mixing for Dolby Atmos
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Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Christina Kaboth, Insa Mingers, Matthias Obrecht, Sabine Pfeifer,
Benjamin Schütte, Marita Sladek
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4 Dolby Atmos® Mixing in Nuendo
5 Setting Up Busses for 9.1 Dolby Atmos® Bed
Mixing
6 MixConvert for Dolby Atmos
7 Creating 9.1 Dolby Atmos® Bed Mixes with
VST MultiPanner
7 VST MultiPanner Plug-in Panel
11 Elevation Patterns
12 Panning and Routing Rules
12 Remote Controlling VST MultiPanner
13 Mixing for Dolby Atmos® with a Dolby
Rendering and Mastering Unit (RMU)
13 Object Routing
16 Object Mixing with VST MultiPanner
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Table of Contents
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Dolby Atmos® Mixing in Nuendo
You can use the VST MultiPanner plug-in to create 3D mixes for Dolby Atmos.
VST MultiPanner allows the following:
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Creating a channel-based bed mix in 9.1 Dolby Atmos format. This speaker
configuration is also known as Dolby Atmos 7.1.2 speaker setup.
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Creating an object-based Dolby Atmos mix with up to 118 audio objects when using a
Dolby Rendering and Mastering Unit (RMU).
NOTE
If you want to use a Dolby RMU, you must install the “Nuendo RMU Connector for
Dolby Atmos®”. For more information, visit www.steinberg.net/dolbyatmos.
NOTE
All other surround mixing and panning functions are described in the Nuendo Operation
Manual.
RELATED LINKS
Setting Up Busses for 9.1 Dolby Atmos Bed Mixing on page 5
Creating 9.1 Dolby Atmos Bed Mixes with VST MultiPanner on page 7
Mixing for Dolby Atmos with a Dolby Rendering and Mastering Unit (RMU) on page 13
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Setting Up Busses for 9.1 Dolby
Atmos® Bed Mixing
Mixing for a 9.1 Dolby Atmos audio bed requires a signal routing to a 9.1 Dolby Atmos output
bus.
The processing format of the VST MultiPanner plug-in depends on the channel routing. For
example, if a mono source channel is routed to a 5.1 bus, the panner works in 5.1 mode. For
9.1 Dolby Atmos mixing, the source channel must be routed to an output bus that provides
top channel speakers.
For the mixing of a 9.1 Dolby Atmos audio bed, the following applies:
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You must route the source channel to a 9.1 Dolby Atmos output bus or a 9.1 Dolby
Atmos group channel.
To ensure the correct routing for the Dolby Atmos mix, we recommend you to route the
first 10 device ports of your audio interface to the 9.1 Dolby Atmos bus. You can select
the device ports in the VST Connections window.
IMPORTANT
In Nuendo, the order of surround busses and side busses differs from the Dolby
specification for side surround busses (Lss, Rss) and surround rear busses (Lsr,
Rsr). To meet the specification for the Dolby RMU, you must swap the device ports of
surround busses and side busses.
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You can route mono, stereo, or surround channels to a 9.1 Dolby Atmos bus. If you
route a 9.1 Dolby Atmos channel to a 9.1 Dolby Atmos bus, the MixConvert plug-in is
used for panning.
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Plug-ins that are used in a 3D bus or group channel must support a corresponding
number of channels.
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Setting Up Busses for 9.1 Dolby Atmos® Bed Mixing
MixConvert for Dolby Atmos®
RELATED LINKS
MixConvert for Dolby Atmos on page 6
Creating 9.1 Dolby Atmos Bed Mixes with VST MultiPanner on page 7
MixConvert for Dolby Atmos
The downmix function in Nuendo supports 9.1 Dolby Atmos mixing. If the Control Room mix
is different from the main mix output bus, or if the signal is routed to an output bus with a
lower number of channels, the signal is converted automatically using the MixConvert plugin.
MixConvert allows you to solo or mute the top and side channels, and to adjust the top and
side channel level.
For Dolby Atmos 3D mixing, the following downmix rule applies:
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If a 9.1 mix is converted to a 7.1 mix, the top channel signals are attenuated by 1.5 dB
and added to the side channel signals.
NOTE
For further details about the MixConvert functions, see the documentation of the MixConvert
V6 plug-in in the Operation Manual and in the separate document Plug-in Reference.
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