.. _production_suite:

The VISR Production Suite
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The VISR Production Suite is the first **open-source** set of **DAW plugins** for producing and reproducing **object-based audio**.

The fundamental elements of an object-based production are:

* **Objects**: audio objects are audio **signals** with associated **metadata**. The metadata of all the objects together form the
* **Scene**: a way to represent the metadata of the set of objects, which is neutral in regard to the output audio format and system. Those information are sent to the
* **Renderer**: a component that uses the scene **metadata** to mix the **signals** of the objects in order to generate the output audio signals for different types of devices (Loudspeakers, Headphones, ...) and layouts ( stereo, binaural, 5.1, 7.1, 22.1, ...).

We provide those elements under the form of:

* an **Object Editor** plugin on each track to transform your tracks into **audio objects**
* a so called **Scene Master** plugin to manipulate the whole object-based **audio scene**
* and integrated **renderer plugins** to reproduce the scene on various loudspeaker layouts, sound bars, or headphones.

.. image:: ../images/VISR-production-suite.png
   :align: center
   :scale: 22 %
   :alt: alternate text

The production suite is based on the `JUCE <https://juce.com>`_ framework, which is a famous tool for easily generate DAW plug-ins in different formats, and on the `VISR <http://www.s3a-spatialaudio.org/visr>`_, a modular open-source framework for audio processing.

What you can do with the VISR Production Suite
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

* Create an object-based session:
* Spatialise and control your audio objects
* Easy Binaural content creation with different sets of HRIR and BRIRs in SOFA format
* Head tracking and head orientation compensation capabilities, suitable for VR
* Create loudspeaker layout agnostic spatial audio content and render it for different
  loudspeaker systems with just one click
* Exploit the features of JUCE and the VISR frameworks


The included Plugins
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Supported Formats
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The DAW plugins of the VISR Production suite are provided in the following formats:

* |VST| **VST®** [#f1]_ **(Virtual Studio Technology) version 3**

* **( Coming soon )** Standalone ( JUCE plugin wrapper )
* **( Coming soon )** AU (Audio Units)
* **( Coming soon )** AAX (Avid Audio eXtension)

.. |VST| image:: ../images/vst3logo.png
         :align: bottom
         :scale: 15 %


Supported DAWs
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The plugins are currently fully supported by the following DAWs:

* **Reaper** ( see :doc:`tutorials <tutorial_1>` )

On other DAWs there may be some routing or rendering limitations compared to Reaper, but at the very least it is possible to process the object-based metadata within the DAW and perform the object-based routing/rendering outside the DAW.
We are currently investigating the other DAW capabilities in this regard, focusing on the following DAWs:

* **( Coming soon )** Cubase and Nuendo
* **( Coming soon )** Logic Pro
* **( Coming soon )** Ableton Live
* **( Coming soon )** Pro Tools

.. _object_editor:

.. include:: object_editor.rst

.. _scene_master:

.. include:: scene_master.rst

.. _loudspeaker_renderer:

.. include:: loudspeaker_renderer.rst

.. .. include:: loudspeaker_renderer_with_metadapter.rst

.. _binaural_renderer:

.. include:: binaural_renderer.rst


.. [#f1] VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, registered in Europe and other countries.