Dolby Atmos Music Creation 101: Setting Up Your Studio

In this tutorial, we'll explore best practices for setting up your studio for Dolby Atmos music creation, including ways to organize your sessions, assigning the Music Panner plugin, and preferred I/O settings for Ableton Live and Logic Pro.


Chapter Titles: 
00:00 - 02:01 Dolby Atmos Music Creation 101: Setting up your studio
02:01 - 06:45  Dolby Atmos Renderer & Dolby Audio Bridge
06:45 - 08:56 Organizing Your Session
08:56 - 12:30 Assigning the Music Panner Plug-In
12:30 - 14:29 Routing LFE
14:29 - 16:26 I/O Settings for Ableton Live
16:26 - 20:11 I/O Settings for Logic Pro

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[nathanielweise]

After 6 years of learning how to be an engineer and a producer, I'm finally feeling ready to take the plunge into the world of surround sound, atmos, and all that there is beyond stereo. I was definitely pretty intimidated before I saw this video which speaks to how well it was produced. Leave it to Dolby to lead the industry!

[famousarmystudio]

This video is validated as cool because of the Metalheadz record proudly displayed

[StudioBMuzik]

Can you do a demonstration on how you built your stand that your 8020s are connected too please?

[zacharyseabolt]

What are the differences in the renderer and bridge portion of this video now that it is built into protools and other daws

[Audiomishran]

I didn't get the LFE routing part isn't there one LFE send already on Panner??

[soundchapelrecordingstudio]

Very nice …thanks for the information….I want to put a basic atmos 7.1.4 setup…so which sound card would you suggest please….

[dennvetta]

You should start by saying Dolby Amos production sweet is MAC only. Is there an alternative for Windows 10 users?

[basehead]

I don't get it, why do the object channels still show being output to the 7.1.2 bed?

[creativeheadroom]

This all seems pretty easy to setup. Too a bunch of it is Mac exclusive. Are there any plans to expand support to Windows for more of the software? I'd consider upgrading my studio for spatial audio in the future, but I don't want to deal with Apple products anymore. Their anti-consumer business model is even worse for professionals. The lack of support for their product makes them the opposite of what the audio industry needs. With proper PC support, Dolby Atmos mixing/production would become available to many more people.

[AntOn-msjt]

Great video! What stands are you using for your four top speakers?

[amdenis]

Great video—thanks. How do you fix/adjust per-channel/object phase issues, due to your actual config ?

[bradproskoproduction]

Where is the session template of yours that you mentioned will be available for download?

[MrHamit]

Could you configure this for a 24.1.10 bed if you happen to have an Altitude 32? Or is 7.1.4 the default?

[noreaction]

This is mac only? No windows? When will that change?

[Avatartofficial]

can you produce my next album please? I have great creative ideas but I need a producer and an skilled engineer.