First Look: ab Visualiser HOA Pro – Exclusive World Premiere
Audio Brewers turns six, and Alejandro Cabrera gives us the world-premiere first look at ab Visualiser HOA Pro, a modular ambisonics visualization suite that maps your sound field onto 360° and phone video. We also dig into the ab Compressor | Limiter with its seventh-order ambisonics sidechain, and talk about what AI-built plugins mean for specialist developers.
Dolby Atmos Comes to Digital Performer, Plus 9 More Immersive Audio Stories
New immersive audio tools are now arriving almost daily, so I’m launching Immersive Audio News, a monthly roundup of what matters in spatial audio. This first edition covers big updates from channel favorites, new players entering the field, and a sign of how Dolby Atmos may quietly reach the mainstream.
Spatial Audio in Your Pocket: Audio Brewers' AB Recorder
I put the new AB Recorder from Audio Brewers to the test, recording first-order ambisonics straight from the iPhone and decoding the result in Reaper. Join me for a hands-on walkthrough of the app's standout features, its limitations, and my honest take on whether it earns a place in your pocket.
Michael G Wagner | Audio Brewers: The Conversation
During a conference visit to Athens, I toured Alejandro Cabrera's acoustically isolated studio and discussed his recent integration of Audio Brewers' ambisonic decoder into Pro Tools, which streamlines spatial audio workflows by automating technical configuration. The conversation explored how his dual perspective as artist and developer informs plugin design that prioritizes creative usability over exposing every available parameter.
From Beamforming to ASAF: The Spatial Audio Tools of the Summer of 2025
I'm breaking down four game-changing developments in immersive audio that have been happening behind the scenes: NovoNotes' new format support for 9.1.6 and 7.1.6 configurations, Audio Brewers' revolutionary beamforming decoder, Eclipsa Audio's open-source spatial audio plugins that finally make 3D sound accessible to everyone, and Apple's Spatial Audio Format that transforms static mixes into responsive sound environments. Each of these deserves its own deep dive tutorial which I'll be releasing over the coming weeks, plus there's another massive announcement on the horizon that could revolutionize immersive music production—but I'll have to save that for another day.