Is there a way to distinguish 5.1 capable plugins?
I am doing a spring clean of my plugins - several hundred of them. I would like to know if there is a way to distinguish between those that are Surround Capable and those which are not.
I fear my mission is doomed
Z
I don’t think you’re going to like this answer, but it’s probably something you’ll have to go to the vendor websites to confirm in most cases
Are all Steinberg Plugins capable of all Speaker/ 3D Audio Configurations except for the reverbs?
I haven’t really found a definitive answer in Steinbergs Manual
The plugin manager will tell you in the Plug-in information box.
I don’t see this.
Thank you this has helped.
What is confusing me is that in Cubase 5 times (when I was last active in this field) ALL Steinberg plugins adjusted to 5.1. Now it seems that the modern plugins cannot do this but are touted as “5.1 capable”. It seems the 5.1 track needs routing to a fx track where two instances are used for the front and rears of 5.1. This is much more cumbersome and a step backwards.
Here is a video to prove my point - 1m 30 seconds 5.1 old skool
The modern cubase limiter does not do what the early version could do. It only works in stereo
Strange?
Z
It would be great if Cubase works more like protools and uses multi-mono instances for a lot of surround channel setups but it’s just not quite as straight forward unfortunately. I have organized the surround capable plugins by manually testing them some time ago and these days use Fidler Audio Armada and or immersive wrapper for most surround and Atmos setups. Screengrabs of my surround capable plugins attached (fab filter stuff is missing). Hope this helps a bit. The Uhbik suite is great btw, check it out.
