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Precise Downmixing & Surround Rebalancing
Complement your workflow
Halo Downmix completes your surround toolset enabling precise surround balancing, mix monitoring and sophisticated stereo fold-down. The glue that brings your workflow together, allowing you to deliver in surround and stereo with ease and without compromise.
Produce better downmixes and enhance the downmix compatibility of your surround mixes. 5.1, 7.1, advanced and compact interfaces perfectly designed for the task in hand, maximising screen real estate. Multiple monitoring modes, quick mute and solo controls promote rapid assessment and critical listening tests. Halo Downmix is the ideal complement to any surround workflow.
Accelerate & enhance
Precise surround control, versatile downmix balancing and mix monitoring for accelerating and enhancing your surround productivity.
- Surround to stereo downmix
- Regulate LF content
- Maintain dialog clarity
- Control excess ambient energy
- Remove rear-delay artefacts
- Fine-tune surround to surround
- In-place surround and stereo monitoring
Expert surround-to-stereo
Simply using standard downmix coefficients can often lead to unsatisfactory results, particularly if legacy upmix practices were used for the original surround mix. Halo Downmix can quickly mitigate these issues and produce a more coherent stereo mix, for example by controlling excessive diffuse sound from added artificial reverberation, or removing delay artefacts introduced in the rear channels.
Fine-tune existing surround material
Adjust existing 5.1 or 7.1 mixes in surround-to-surround mode. Levels of individual channels, and balance of direct vs. diffuse sound can be adjusted to fine tune or re-balance existing surround audio where access to the original mix is not possible.
3D Immersive Extension
The new 3D Immersive Extension option for Halo Downmix adds capability for downmixing 7.1.2 Dolby Atmos bed tracks to 7.1, 5.1 and stereo.
Parallel workflows
Halo Downmix can also be used in conjunction with the included Receive plug-in to enable a parallel surround/stereo workflow. This allows for rapid A/B listening checks between the full surround mix and stereo downmix.
Flexible, intuitive interface
Halo Downmix provides a highly creative solution for precise downmixing of 7.1 or 5.1 mixes to stereo. Intuitive, visual controls for relative levels, timing, and direct/ambient sound balance allow unprecedented fine-tuning, delivering accurate downmixes no longer limited by typical in-the-box processes.
Halo Downmix’s highly customisable interface includes both 7.1 & 5.1 modes, and advanced & compact modes, with quick-select ‘in-place’ monitoring of stereo and surround signals, as well as quick linked solo and mute functions at every stage, and clear visualisation of surround energy distribution.
Typical applications
- Standard and custom surround-to-stereo downmixing
- Surround re-balancing and fine-tuning
- Simultaneous surround/stereo workflow
- Immediate and versatile surround/downmix monitoring
- Downmix rescue
- Surround restoration
- Stereo production within a surround workflow
- Controlling excess ambient energy
- Regulating low frequencies
- Maintaining dialog clarity
- Removing rear-delay artefacts
System Requirements
Available formats
We support AAX (64-bit only), VST, VST3, AU and AudioSuite in both 64-bit and 32-bit versions. Halo Downmix requires a surround-compatible plug-in host (5.1/7.1) such as Pro Tools HD.
Minimum system requirements
- Mac OSX 10.7.x / 512 MB RAM
- Windows (64 bit) Vista or above / 512 MB RAM
Mike Wyeld
"One of the smartest moves we've ever made was to adopt NUGEN Audio software tools for our audio design curriculum."
Zach McNees
"Halo Downmix is by far the best sounding downmix plugin I've ever heard."
Tom Marks
"I've been a fan of NUGEN Audio products for a while. They're extremely stable with GUIs that are intuitive."
NUGEN Audio Installation
1. Visit https://www.nugenaudio.com/register.php and create a new account > enter your email address and License Code (found in your Plugin Boutique User Account).
2. Check your email > Click the link that reads ‘Complete license registration’.
3. Read the following information and click ‘My Account’.
4. Create a password > Click ‘Login’.
5. Once you have confirmed your account, fill in the form which greets you.
6. Select your operating system.
7. Your licence can be viewed under the ‘My Licenses’ Tab.
Note: If you wish to activate your Plugin using an iLok, click ‘Convert To iLok’.
8. Click on the MY DOWNLOADS tab and download the full version of your plugin.
9. After the file has downloaded, run the installer.
10. Read the software licence agreement and if happy, click AGREE.
11. Select where you wish to install the plugin and click CONTINUE.
12. Select which component you wish to be installed and click CONTINUE.
13. Check you have enough space on your computer to install and if so, click INSTALL.
14. Once the installation concludes, open the plugin within your DAW.
15. Once the plugin is open within your DAW, click USE LICENCE.
16. Click ON-LINE
17. Enter your licence code and click APPLY LICENCE.
18. Once your licence has been entered, click YES to confirm you wish to licence to your machine.
19. You have now successfully licenced your plugin!
PLEASE NOTE: If you wish to activate your licence onto your iLok dongle and not your machine, please click CONVERT TO ILOK at stage 7.
