NUGEN Audio Halo Vision

Seeing is Believing: Customizable surround audio analysis

NUGEN Audio Halo Vision is a customizable, real-time visual analysis suite for the comprehensive analysis of 3D and immersive audio. It can display a wide range of complex information intuitively.  Audio professionals get a variety of modules with a clearer understanding of every aspect of their audio. This allows for precise and confident decision-making and troubleshooting, and pinpointing problem areas that might be missed using ears alone.

NUGEN Audio Halo Vision Applications:

• Surround and immersive mix analysis up to 7.1.2
• Checking phase correlation
• Visualizing spatial information
• Ensuring mixes translate to different channel layouts
• Mixing in unfamiliar or badly treated rooms

The Correlation Matrix displays color-coded phase relationships between every channel, with a larger arched meter for more detailed analysis, and anti-correlation alerts at a user-defined threshold.

The Correlation Web shows a network of channels with an interconnecting line between each pair. When the phase relationship between two channels becomes anti-correlated, the corresponding line lights up.

Both of these views use Contextual Correlation by default. To be clear, standard calculations used by other correlation meters are normalized in such a way that two signals might appear to be highly anti-correlated. Mixing them together will not cause phase cancellation, even if one signal is much louder or quieter than the other. In other words, Contextual Correlation compensates for these level differences, only highlighting correlation issues that are likely to cause a problem.

Haze views

With low frequencies at the center and high frequencies on the outer edge, the circular Frequency Haze displays frequency content across the surrounding field. It shows channel labels in typical speaker positions.

The Location Haze, on the other hand, provides a visualization of the perceived location of your audio. It shows energy distribution across the surrounding field, with brighter sections indicating increased “energy”.

Other views

In ‘Combined’ mode, the Spectrum view displays an FFT level-against-frequency graph for all the channels in one spectrum. In ‘Groups’ mode, channels can be organized into groups of spectrums.

To explain, this True Peak view provides a True Peak dB level meter for each channel.

The Timecode view displays a timecode readout based on the current host/DAW playback position.

Effortlessly speed up your daily workflow

Halo Vision is the result of our most in-depth market research to date, the product of a series of interviews with many of our trusted and respected customers in the industry, with the aim of discovering exactly what they want, need and expect from the surrounding and immersive visual audio analysis.

What makes Halo Vision unique is its ability to display a wide range of complex information intuitively, without the need for a crib sheet or tons of on-screen clutter. Nugen Audio built upon features, ideas, and inspiration from other products on the market, as well as other highly-regarded plug-ins of their own. For example, in order to create a concise, streamlined analysis, they utilized Halo Upmix, Paragon, and VisLM, among other tools.