5.1 to Binaural without buying a plugin

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Is there a way to render a 5.1 mix to 2.0 binaural using plugins included in Nuendo 11?
Thanks for your wind help,
Lluís

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Use a send from the 5.1 mix bus to a stereo bus. Then export stereo from the mixdown dialogue window. Quickest way really…no need of plugins. Or you can use mixconvert…though I dont go that route.

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That’s just stereo though, not a binaural version of a surround mix.

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Piano2000,
Thanks for your answer, but this way creates only a stereo, but do not “Binauralizes” the channels.

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It is not what the OP was actually asking for, but there are several free- and shareware Binauralizers available on the web, e.g. in the SPARTA- Compass- and IEM plug-in collections:

→ SPARTA suite - SPARTA
→ COMPASS suite - SPARTA
→ IEM Plug-in Descriptions

… most of them rely on Ambisonics input formats, so there might be additional steps necessary to encode 5.1 to HAO first.

And a wild idea: You could get the free DearVR Micro and pan your individual 5.1 (or better: 5.0) tracks as sources in a binaural mix one-by-one :sunglasses: …:

→ dearVR MICRO - Dear Reality

HTH,

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Thanks Dietz.
I’ll try your “wild idea”.

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And if you upgrade to 12 there’ll be Dolby’s encoder, no?

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MattiasNYC,
I’ve seen the Nuendo 12 key note, they speak about Binaural monitor, but i’m not sure if it would be renderized.
Wait and see.

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My take on this: It will be possible to bounce the binauralized 7.1.4.

Just route the bus with the Dolby Renderer (set to Binaural) to a Stereo-Out and do a profane Export-Audio.

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Thanks Juergi,
It seems the right way, but I cannot find “set to Binaural” into dolby renderer. It seems this option will be available with Nuendo12.
May be I must wait…

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Yep. All have to wait - perhaps except the Beta testers and insiders. :wink:

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Hi @LluisV,

if you want to go from 5.1 to 2.0 binaural with out-of-the-box tools in Nuendo 11, you will have to go through an Ambisonics bus. For example, if you route 5.1 → HOA3 → Stereo Out, the HOA3 bus will by default use the VST AmbiDecoder in the panner slot, which will decode the Ambisonics signal to binaural stereo.

As already suggested by @Dietz, you could also use third party plugins to achieve this.

br, Lennart

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