DAM Upmix turns a stereo mix into a 7.1.4 immersive bed without touching the timbre. The beta is open to anyone until 15 November 2026: you get the full plugin for the whole run, and we ask for your feedback in exchange.
WHY UPMIX
Stereo masters, immersive deliverables
Almost everything ever mixed is stereo, and almost nothing being asked for today is. Music platforms take Dolby Atmos. Film, broadcast and streaming want 5.1 or 7.1.4. Museums, planetariums, clubs and permanent installations run speaker counts that two channels cannot fill. The content exists; the format does not.
Remixing a catalogue in immersive means one session per track, with the stems, when the stems still exist. Upmixing starts from the master you already have and turns it into a multichannel deliverable: same balance, same tone, spread across the system. It does not replace a native immersive mix. It is how a back catalogue reaches an immersive system at all, and how a stereo mix gets heard on one tonight.
POWERED BY HSR
It does not change your sound — it places it
Most upmixers recolor the signal. This one does not. Our HSR algorithm works entirely in the time domain: it reads the spatial image already encoded in your stereo and redistributes its energy across every output, conserving energy and leaving the timbre untouched. No FFT, no pre-echo, no musical noise.
And it stays downmix-safe — fold the upmix back to stereo and you recover your master, thanks to phase-aware summation from HCC.
For each output you choose where in the stereo image it draws from; a position on the stereo axis, reaching past ±90° to pull energy from the extreme sides, without the phase trouble an M/S matrix brings. Each output carries a Weight set from how much of the image it covers, so the energy stays balanced.
KEY FEATURES
What the plugin actually does
- Timbre left untouched Energy is conserved and redistributed, never filtered.
- Stereo in, up to 7.1.4 out Also 7.1.2, 7.1 and 5.1 — multichannel outputs, one session for every deliverable.
- Polar view, outputs you drag Each output reads a position on the stereo axis, past ±90° if you want the extreme sides.
- Diverge and Tilt Correlate or decorrelate every output at once, and shift the balance between centre and outer outputs.
- Independent layers Ear-level ring, height bus with its own Ambiance, LFE with selectable crossover.
- Automatable, with presets Every parameter automatable, presets travelling with the session.
BEFORE YOU ORDER
What you get, and what it runs on
- VST3, Audio Unit and AAX The same engine in every format.
- Two machines Studio and laptop. Deactivate frees a seat when you move.
- License by email Key and download link, a few minutes after the order.
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macOS and Windows macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel · Windows 10/11, 64-bit.
- AAX for Pro Tools macOS and Windows, Pro Tools Studio and Ultimate 2023.6 or later (Pro Tools Artist is stereo only).
- Compatible DAWs Reaper, Cubase, Nuendo, Logic Pro (on a 7.1.2 Atmos track). Pyramix (Windows) and DaVinci Resolve: insert it on a 5.1 to 7.1.4 bus fed with your stereo on L/R (7.1.2 and 7.1.4 need Resolve Studio).
DOWNLOAD
Get the plugin
WHAT WE ASK IN RETURN
Use it on real work, then tell us
A few lines beat a long report: your DAW, your system, and what you heard or did not hear. A beta is unfinished software, so keep a stereo fallback of anything you deliver with it.
How the algorithm works, the interface, and the commercial pricing: the DAM Upmix page.