Using Ambisonics in Plug-ins

The Wwise plug-in API exposes ambisonic channel configurations with AK_ChannelConfigType_Ambisonic. Consequently, in Creating New Plug-ins, developers can work with ambisonic beds.

Using Ambisonics with Effects

All Effects distributed with Wwise that process channels independently, such as the Wwise Compressor, Wwise Guitar Distortion, and Wwise Parametric EQ plug-ins, support ambisonics.

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On the other hand, reverbs process channels differently. They typically downmix the input channel, reverberate it, and upmix the reverberated output by mixing more or less de-correlated signals into the output channels. Wwise RoomVerb and Wwise Convolution Reverb work with ambisonic voices/busses. They take the W (omni) channel, reverberate it, and upmix it by mixing de-correlated signals to the omni and directional channels. The Wwise Matrix Reverb will fail to initialize if used on ambisonic voices/busses.

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