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The abilty to move the sound around like that is also key for the surround functionality, which I’ll get to shortly. When you remember that you’re listening on stereo headphones, it’s pretty mind boggling, especiallly the first time you experience it. Thanks to NX’s psychoacoustic processing, rotating the speaker pair 180 degrees makes it sound like the audio is actually coming from behind you. This allows you to listen to your mixes from different perspectives, which can be very helpful.

Another knob at the bottom is called Rotate, and you can use it to move the speaker pair anywhere in a 360 degree field around you. You can put the speakers on either side, or even right behind you. If you move the icons on top of each other, the image turns to mono, which means you can check mono compatibility right from NX.īut that’s not the only manipulation you can do with the speakers. If you go the other direction, you can narrow the image.

Waves nx manual update#

A number of real-time measurements that constantly update are displayed in the window, and text shows you keyboard commands for such actions as resetting the face detection, and enabling Low Light Mode (more on that shortly).īack to NX itself, if you drag on one of the virtual speakers (or turn the Front knob), you can widen the distance between speakers up to where they’re 90 degrees from each side of your head, and the stereo image widens correspondingly. The default is 60 degrees. When you instantiate NX, it automatically launches WavesHeadTracker, which opens in a separate window, and shows a feed from your your Webcam, with a 3D green box around your head, reminiscent of something from The Matrix. In the stereo version of NX, the GUI features a pair of speaker icons connected by a yellow line, and a top-view, 3D graphic of a human head. The NX plug-in interface is where you do most of the adjusting (except for head-tracking parameters). NX can be instantiated in mono-to-stereo, stereo, and 5.1 or 5.0 surround. The two you’re most likely to use in a DAW environment, though, are the stereo and 5.1 components. The frequency response that you get in NX is heavily impacted by your headphones, so the more accurate they are, the better.

Waves nx manual simulator#

You put it on the master bus while you’re mixing, but then you bypass it before you bounce your mix. Unlike a speaker simulator like the Focusrite VRM Box, NX doesn’t try to emulate any particular types of monitors. Instead, it uses psychoacoustic technology to simulate a treated mixing room, free from acoustic anamolies the theory being that in such a pristine environment, you will be better equipped to make mixing decisions. If you’d prefer not using an external drive, but still need to switch computers occasionally, it’s quite easy to move your authorization between two machines using Waves Central. You can only authorize it on one device at at time, but it can be either your computer or an external drive (even a flash drive).

Waves nx manual install#

You install NX just like any other Waves plug-in, using the free Waves Central installer application. Details, details The interface for the NX stereo component When I first got a demo of it at NAMM, I was sure it would cost at least $500, and was flabbergasted (in a good way) when I heard the actual price. Possibly the most mind-boggling aspect of this plug-in is that it costs just $99.

Using the webcam on your computer or an optional head-tracking accessory sold by Waves (not available yet), it follows your head movements and adjusts the virtual acoustics to compensate. NX comes with the WavesHeadTracker application, which loads when you open the plug-in.