ambiX – Ambisonic plug-in suite

Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:44:35 +0100

ambiX is a suite of free, cross-platform Ambisonic plug-ins for producing and post-producing 3D audio – encoding, rotating, warping, widening, decoding to loudspeakers or to headphones. They work in any multichannel host such as REAPER, Ardour or Max, and as standalone applications.

I first released them in January 2014, developed during my master thesis at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz. Together with mcfx they won the gold award at the AES Student Design Competition 2014, were promoted by Google for YouTube Ambisonics productions, and are still in wide use. The plug-ins follow the ambiX convention: full 3D, ACN channel order, SN3D normalization.

Download: github.com/kronihias/ambix/releases – installers for macOS and Windows; on Linux they can be built from source. Source code: github.com/kronihias/ambix (GPL).

mcfx – multichannel audio plug-in suite

Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:54:04 +0100

mcfx is a suite of free multichannel plug-ins for macOS, Windows and Linux: convolution, EQ, filters, delay, gain calibration, metering, network audio and more – each one processing any number of channels in one go. That makes them handy wherever many channels belong together: loudspeaker arrays, Ambisonics (together with ambiX), microphone array recordings.

I first released mcfx in January 2014, alongside ambiX; in 2026 it got its largest update so far. As VST3, every plug-in adapts to the channel count of the track (up to 64); the installers also include fixed 128-channel VST2 versions for hosts that need more.

Download: github.com/kronihias/mcfx/releases – installers for macOS and Windows; on Linux they can be built from source. Source code: github.com/kronihias/mcfx (GPLv3).

Multi Channel on Matthias Kronlachner

ambiX – Ambisonic plug-in suite

mcfx – multichannel audio plug-in suite