Audio Brewers has announced the release of a new plugin designed to provide flexible and precise decoding of Ambisonics signals.
ab Advanced Decoder is aimed at professionals working in environments that require decoding Ambisonics audio to speaker arrays of up to 64 channels, capturing high-resolution acoustic spots using beamforming techniques, or performing automatic spatial monitoring during live recording with Ambisonics microphones.
ab Advanced Decode features
- Advanced Higher Order Ambisonics Decoder.
- High-Performance Beamformer Algorithm.
- Internal Upscaler processes all signals in 7OA.
- ‘Speaker Mode’ for custom layouts of up to 64 Speakers.
- ‘Spot Mode’ with up to 64 Beams (with custom size).
- ‘Auto Mode’ for automatic acoustic focus.
- Customisable ‘Gate’ for further isolation.
- Per-channel High and Low-pass filters.
- Support for up to 62 LFE channels.
- ‘Monitor’ mode for 0-latency processing.
- Automatically adapts to signals from 1st to 7th Order Ambisonics (1OA through 7OA).
- Designed with a plug-and-play mentality: It simply works.
ab Advanced Decoder for Windows and Mac (VST3, AU and AAX) is on sale for the introduction price of €119 EUR through October 5th, 2025 (regular €139 EUR). It is also available as a bundle with all the Audio Brewers decoders for €159 EUR during the promotion (regular €179 EUR).
More information: Audio Brewers
