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Waves Audio offers Immersive Wrapper with support for VST3 plugins
NAB Show, Las Vegas, NV, April 19, 2026 — Waves Audio (booth 2722), the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, offers Immersive Wrapper, an innovative tool that transforms VST3 mono plugins into immersive multichannel processors. As today’s broadcast audio professionals are well aware, the emerging landscape of immersive audio mixing is no longer a bonus but rather an expectation for major productions. This is achieved by combining the Waves SuperRack with Immersive Wrapper – together they enable productions to mix immersive audio with standard audio plugins, in a streamlined manner that has not been possible until now. This unlocks new creative possibilities across music, film, television, streaming and gaming production. Engineers are now empowered to fully leverage their plugin toolbox when crafting an immersive mix.
This innovative tool, which previously enabled any Waves mono-compatible plugin to function as an immersive processor for multichannel and object-based mixing in Dolby Atmos® and other immersive formats, now supports VST3 plugins from a wide range of third-party developers when used in studio environments. (When used within Waves SuperRack in live broadcast and live concert environments, Immersive Wrapper supports Waves plugins only.)
Immersive Wrapper addresses a longstanding limitation in immersive mixing: facilitating mix-wide bus processing with mono plugins across multichannel and object-based formats like Atmos. Now, users can create immersive bus processing setups in multichannel / object-based mixes using their favorite VST3 mono plugins, complete with a shared internal sidechain system for mix-wide dynamics processing.
Waves Immersive Wrapper brings the benefits of dedicated bus processing to Atmos mixes, addressing a key challenge for immersive mixers who have longed for the ability to shape the overall sound and character of an immersive mix with bus compression, EQ, or saturation just as they are accustomed to applying on a stereo master bus when mixing in two-channel stereo. While the immersive mix is still outputted to the renderer as separate beds and objects, it works in a control-linked multi-mono configuration to deliver output channel cohesion and a unified feel to mixes from mono up to 9.1.6 channel configurations.
In immersive live broadcast and live shows: Insert Immersive Wrapper on any slot in SuperRack LiveBox, SuperRack SoundGrid, or SuperRack Performer (in 5.1.4, 7.1.4 or 9.1.4 rack configurations), then load your chosen Waves mono plugin inside Immersive Wrapper. Immersive Wrapper plugin is bundled with SuperRack LiveBox.
Immersive Wrapper features:
- Supports VST3 plugins by Waves + other brands (compatible with third-party plugins in studio environments)
- Supports all track types, from mono to 7.1.2 to 9.1.6
- Create advanced multi-mono configurations
- Flexible linking and relative parameter control
- Cross-track “Global Group” linking over entire Atmos mix
- Comprehensive shared internal sidechain system
Waves Immersive Wrapper is bundled with the Waves SuperRack LiveBox. It is also available for purchase (perpetual license) as a single plugin, and is included in the Waves Ultimate plugin subscription as well, along with over 240 additional Waves plugins.
Video: “How to Glue Your Mixes in ATMOS – Immersive Wrapper Tutorial”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7dBbWlMTac
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Photo caption 1: Waves Immersive Wrapper now supports VST3 plugins from a wide range of third-party developers when used in studio environmentsAbout Waves Audio Ltd.:
Waves is the world’s leading developer of audio DSP solutions for music production, recording, mixing, mastering, sound design, post-production, live sound, broadcast, commercial and consumer electronics audio markets. Since its start in the early ‘90s, Waves has developed a comprehensive line of over 240 audio plugins and numerous hardware devices. For its accomplishments, Waves received a Technical Grammy® Award in 2011; an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy® Award for its Waves Clarity Vx Pro plugin in 2023; and NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) Awards for its Clarity Vx DeReverb Pro plugin in 2024 and eMotion LV1 Classic console in 2026. Additionally, its early flagship plugin, the Q10 equalizer, was selected as an inductee into the TECnology Hall of Fame.Increasingly leveraging pioneering techniques in artificial intelligence, neural networks and machine learning, as well as the company’s three decades of accumulated expertise in psychoacoustics, Waves technologies are being used to improve sound quality in a growing number of market sectors. Around the world, Waves’ award-winning plugins are utilized in the creation of hit records, major motion pictures, and top-selling video games. Additionally, Waves now offers hardware-plus-software solutions (including the revolutionary eMotion LV1 Classic live mixing console) for professional audio markets. The company’s WavesLive division is a leader in the live sound sector, spearheading the development of solutions for all live platforms. Products from Waves Commercial Audio enable A/V system integrators and installers to deliver superior sound quality for corporate, commercial, government, educational, entertainment, sports and house-of-worship applications. Under its Maxx brand, Waves offers semiconductor and licensable algorithms for consumer electronics applications, used in laptops, smartphones, smart speakers, gaming headsets, TVs and more from industry leaders such as Dell, Google, Fitbit, Acer, Asus, Hisense and others.
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