Cakewalk, Dolby Atmos and Surround Sound...

[RexRed]

Cakewalk, Dolby Atmos and Surround Sound...

Can Cakewalk make Dolby Atmos songs?

I recall Cakewalk doing surround sound I was just wondering where it is now with Dolby Atmos or is that something for the new Cakewalk Sonar?

What would that entail making songs with Dolby Atmos? Would I need to buy 4,000 Atmos monitor speakers and rewire my apartment?

Or, could I make Atmos songs with a set of headphones?

Sorry I have not put much thought yet into this.

A while back I bought Sonarworks SoundID Reference software now it has a multi speaker version.

It does work to improve my sound especially in a pair of Philips headphones I own that they give the ID reference for.

It seems to work with only 44khz so I never use it. Not sure that I really needed it.

My mixes simply sound better on flat speakers but never seem to sound worse. 

Edited November 3, 2023 by RexRed

[Larry Jones]

I don't think the current CbB (free version) can do Atmos, and I believe if it were in the works for the new Sonar they would be hyping it now, or at least hinting at it. Meanwhile, Studio One 6.5 includes Atmos natively, and they assure us you can create a headphone mix that sort of sounds (on headphones) like surround. BTW, I have no inside information about the upcoming Sonar release, and I'm starting to think neither do the "insiders."

Edited to add: Dolby is selling Atmos VST3 plugins, but they don't seem willing to say the price. https://customer.dolby.com/content-creation-and-delivery

Edited November 3, 2023 by Larry Jones
New info

[Heath Row]

Anderton is doing a few articles in his Friday Tip of the week over at PreSonus/Studio One Blog thingy.

https://blog.presonus.com/2023/09/29/you-can-do-immersive-audio-right-now/

https://blog.presonus.com/2023/10/06/easy-atmos-grab-headphones-mix-have-fun/

with more to come apparently, here is a link to his Friday tip of the week blog thingy

https://blog.presonus.com/category/friday-tip-of-the-week/

[msmcleod]

I've not looked into this in any detail, but in theory, you should be able to use this to use Atmos in CbB:  https://fiedler-audio.com/

You may even be able to use CbB's surround panner (assuming the software presents itself as a hardware audio device), but I suspect you'll be limited to using WASAPI Shared or WDM to facilitate this.

[RexRed]

On 11/2/2023 at 8:59 PM, Larry Jones said:

I don't think the current CbB (free version) can do Atmos, and I believe if it were in the works for the new Sonar they would be hyping it now, or at least hinting at it. Meanwhile, Studio One 6.5 includes Atmos natively, and they assure us you can create a headphone mix that sort of sounds (on headphones) like surround. BTW, I have no inside information about the upcoming Sonar release, and I'm starting to think neither do the "insiders."

Edited to add: Dolby is selling Atmos VST3 plugins, but they don't seem willing to say the price. https://customer.dolby.com/content-creation-and-delivery

I also noticed a price was not included.  ...and command line seems a bit cryptic. Why not just sell us hammer and chisel? 😁

On 11/3/2023 at 6:30 AM, msmcleod said:

I've not looked into this in any detail, but in theory, you should be able to use this to use Atmos in CbB:  https://fiedler-audio.com/

You may even be able to use CbB's surround panner (assuming the software presents itself as a hardware audio device), but I suspect you'll be limited to using WASAPI Shared or WDM to facilitate this.

No need for the new Cakewalk to have Dolby natively when there are products like this out there already. Thanks for this link! Very helpful!