Guillermo Diaz Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Hi, it's almost 6 months with no updates of CbB, mine works ok but i wonder if someday CbB enter to the Dolby Atmos Mix, anyone in the staff, do you consider this possibility? Or it's time to look other DAWs who already hace this option? What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gustabo Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Atmos is a form of surround, can you not do surround in CbB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol_Jonesey Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 9 hours ago, gustabo said: Atmos is a form of surround, can you not do surround in CbB? Yes you can. Provided you have an appropriate monitoring setup I can't help but feel that Atmos is another gimmick to part the unwary from their cash. IMHO, it's not as immersive as regular 5.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Tim Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Not sure what the licensing rights are for companies, but it's $400 USD a year for the Media Encoder if you get it yourself, which you'd be paying for in the purchase/subscription price for paid DAWs. CbB is free and as we know, a lot of the paid addons that came with SONAR Platinum were taken out for that reason. I don't have the facility here in my studio to do surround currently, but I'd be happy to see Atmos all the same. But realistically, I'm not sure something like this would work with the free model Bandlab are using for CbB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JnTuneTech Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 We are more likely to see plugin functionality handling of multi-channel spatial audio from Cakewalk tracking, than to have it integrated. And as @Lord Tim mentions, the licensing for all the constantly changing formats out there makes that pretty much a necessity. -I have seen this with the media encoding world in general. You can usually find several 3rd party encoders for various & sundry formatting, and they will be designed to either integrate with your mixing software (as in a plugin), or they will specify a multichannel master file be created for import & processing offline. -I'd be happier with Cakewalk sticking to the basics on that front myself anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dappa1 Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 Looks like Dolby Atmos is the future not sure why some DAW brands are not up to speed with it yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, dappa1 said: Looks like Dolby Atmos is the future not sure why some DAW brands are not up to speed with it yet? Did you not read the answers? It costs money. Cakewalk is free so cannot include components that are licensed by any 3rd party. This is why we no longer have a lot of the 3rd party plug ins included like we had when Sonar was $500. At best you could include a demo version like Melodyne is. Edited April 20, 2023 by John Vere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Tim Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 Even aside from the licensing cost for the encoder (which is baked into the very expensive price of commercial software that supports it so they can absorb that cost), how many studios really have a proper Atmos monitoring environment? Most of us are stereo or 5.1, but it's a substantial outlay to go Atmos. At the moment, outside of Apple hinting they won't add tracks to their curated playlist if they don't have Atmos mixes, there's not a lot of other reasons to pay all of that money for a proper mixing environment and software with an encoder tacked onto the price, honestly. Like I said, I'd be happy to see it included, but I'm not sure we should be holding our breath in the meantime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Gregy Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 Wasn't quadrophonic "the future" in 1972? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gustabo Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 14 minutes ago, 57Gregy said: Wasn't quadrophonic "the future" in 1972? I've got a few of the quad releases converted to dts encoded cds. Dark Side of the Moon original quad release is great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JnTuneTech Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 (edited) -Here is some info on a current VST3-based solution for Dolby Atmos, that could likely be used from within Cakewalk: (via KVR) Fiedler Audio announces Dolby Atmos Composer and Dolby Atmos Composer Essential Quote The Dolby Atmos Composer's Beam Plug-In allows creators to send their audio signals from anywhere in the session into the Composer, the home of the Dolby Atmos Renderer. Signals there can be panned to the Dolby Atmos bed and individually treated as objects in 3D space on one of the 128 independent channels available, including full 3D panning automation of course. -Of course, it's not free, but none of the nascent "hot" commercial formats for AV ever is. -And if Apple is involved, or even interested, -good luck! Edited April 23, 2023 by JnTuneTech emphasis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Nelson Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 On 4/20/2023 at 3:36 AM, dappa1 said: Looks like Dolby Atmos is the future They said the same thing about quadraphonic.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Base 57 Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 But you can't record heavy metal in Dubly. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliano Chris Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 I couldn't be happier with the return of Sonar and a DAW that will be paid, thus being able to add features like Dolby Atmos to our projects. I've been using Surround features for many years. I would really like the new Sonar to come compatible with Atmos. Which has already been consolidated. Today audio in movies, series, music and video game consoles (xbox series) are using it in droves. Looking forward to the launch of Sonar and Next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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