Waves | Nx Ocean Way Nashville

Nx Ocean Way Nashville

To create stellar mixes, you need a stellar mixing environment.

The Nx Ocean Way Nashville plugin replicates the acoustics and monitoring system of the stellar Ocean Way Nashville control rooms, over any pair of studio headphones – so you can create better mixes, anywhere, anytime.

Ocean Way Nashville’s studio control rooms are the pinnacle of acoustic design and studio monitoring – an audiophile sound engineer’s dream. Designed from the ground up by Ocean Way founder Allen Sides, the studios were painstakingly planned and built to meet his vision of the ultimate recording, mixing and monitoring environment.

Supervised and fine-tuned by Allen Sides himself, the Nx Ocean Way plugin recreates the studio’s acoustics and famed HR1/HR5 monitors, in immersive spatial audio, over any headphones.

With Nx Ocean Way Nashville, you can create better mixes, anywhere, anytime, using your favorite reference headphones. Mixes monitored on headphones through the Nx Ocean Way Nashville plugin are more likely to translate accurately to multiple audio systems and platforms – without the issues that often plague mixes created on headphones.

The plugin delivers faithful representations of the control room’s finely tuned acoustics, as experienced through the Allen Sides-designed Ocean Way Audio HR1 and HR5 far-field and near-field monitors.

With Nx Ocean Way Nashville inserted on the master bus of your session, you have the ultimate acoustic reference environment over any headphone model. You can better judge mix depth, panning, reverb amount, low-end response and more – all the aspects of a mix that are normally so difficult to assess on headphones.

Nx Ocean Way Nashville is powered by Waves’ pioneering Nx technology for immersive spatial audio. Waves’ Nx uses channel crosstalk, inter-aural delays (ITD), filters (ILD), early reflections, and head motion tracking to replicate the immersive experience of hearing audio in the real world. All these are coupled with precision measurements of the acoustic response at the original Ocean Way control rooms, to deliver a faithful three-dimensional “out-of-head” representation of the original experience.

Developed by Waves Audio in collaboration with Ocean Way Nashville Studios at Belmont University and Ocean Way Audio, Nx Ocean Way Nashville represents a technological breakthrough in accurate 3D spatial audio modeling of a real acoustic environment.

Nx Ocean Way Nashville supports head tracking – via your webcam or the dedicated Waves Nx Head Tracker Bluetooth device – for enhanced realism of the immersive three-dimensional effect.

• Headphone mixing plugin for better mixes on any set of headphones
• Precision model of the Ocean Way Nashville studio control rooms
• Replicates Ocean Way’s fine-tuned acoustic response and HR1 / HR5 monitoring system over any headphones
• Supervised & approved by Ocean Way founder Allen Sides
• Better reference for mix depth, panning, reverb & low end response
• Powered by Waves Nx immersive audio technology
• Compatible with all headphone models
• Check your mixes on Ocean Way Audio HR1 and HR5 monitors
• Adjustable studio Ambience control
• Personalized head anatomy calibration
• Supports head tracking for enhanced realism, via webcam or the Nx Head Tracker (purchased separately)

Nx Ocean Way Nashville (V13) - System Requirements

Mac

CPU
Intel Core i5 / i7 / i9 / Xeon / Apple M1

Memory
Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
16 GB free disk space on the system drive

Operating System
10.14.6, 10.15.7, 11.6.2, 12.1

Screen Resolution
Minimum: 1024x768
Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
USB displays are not supported as the primary display.

V13 plugins require a graphics card that supports ‘Metal’.

Windows

CPU
Intel Core i5, i7, i9, Xeon (all Gen 5 and above)
AMD Quad Core

Memory
Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
16 GB free disk space on the system drive

Operating System
Windows 10 64 bit
Windows 11 (Build 22000.194)

Screen Resolution
Minimum: 1024x768
Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024

Exceptions & Notes:

• Nx Head Tracker: See the Support tab of the Nx Head Tracker page.
• Camera Support and Performance: In general, Nx will support any webcam that works on your system. If you can Skype with it, you can do head tracking with it. Note that MacBook Pros with built-in PCI-based cameras cause CPU to peak in Pro Tools. This has nothing to do with the Nx plugin or head tracking application; it is a system bug of PCI cameras and Pro Tools on MacBook Pro. To avoid this issue, use an external USB camera. [Mac & Windows]
• Nx Head Tracking Troubleshooter

Nx Ocean Way Nashville (V13) - Supported Hosts

Apple M1 Support

• The DAW versions listed below are the latest on which we tested and officially qualified each the latest version of our products.
• Waves’ latest version works on newer sub-versions of these DAWs, unless stated otherwise.
• If your DAW (or DAW version) is not listed here, we recommend you demo the product you wish to purchase to confirm it works.
• Your DAW must be running on an operating system that supports it in order for plugins to work properly. To confirm that your DAW version is supported on your operating system, please refer to your DAW’s website.

Mac

• Pro Tools 2021 (AAX Native)
• Logic Pro X, 10.6.3 (Audio Units)
• Digital Performer 11 (Audio Units)
• Ableton Live 11 (VST3)
• Nuendo 11 (VST3)
• Cubase 11 (VST3)
• Main Stage 3 (Audio Units)
• Garage Band 10.4.4 (Audio Units)
• Studio One Professional 5 (VST3)
• FL Studio 20 (VST3)
• REAPER 6 (VST3)
• Reason 11, 12 (VST)
• Maschine 2 (VST)
• Komplete Kontrol 2 (VST)
• Bitwig Studio 4 (VST3)
• Luna 1.1.11 (Audio Units)

Please note: Offline process is not supported in all hosts.

Windows

• Pro Tools 2021 (AAX Native)
• Ableton Live 11 (VST3)
• Nuendo 11 (VST3)
• Cubase 11 (VST3)
• Cakewalk by BandLab 2021 (VST3)
• Audition 14 (VST3)
• Premiere Pro 15 (VST3)
• Samplitude Pro X6 (VST3)
• Sequoia 15 (VST3)
• Pyramix 25th (VST)
• Studio One Professional 5.3 (VST3)
• FL Studio 20 (VST3)
• REAPER 6 (VST3)
• Reason 11, 12 (VST)
• Maschine 2 (VST)
• Komplete Kontrol 2 (VST)
• Bitwig Studio 4 (VST3)

Nx Ocean Way Nashville - Supported Platforms

Important: The last Waves plugin version supported in MultiRack is v10.

*See Supported Hosts for more info.
**DiGiCo SD (v929 or earlier) with MultiRack (v9.8 or earlier) embedded.
***When used with SoundGrid Rack for VENUE.

Nx Ocean Way Nashville (V13) - Sample Rate

All Waves plugins support 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz; most support higher sample rates.
Avid VENUE supports up to 48 kHz.

Nx Ocean Way Nashville (V13) - Channel Components

Nx Ocean Way Nashville (V13) - Latency

The table below indicates how much latency is produced by each plugin, in samples.

Not all plugins support all platforms (MultiRack, StudioRack, eMotion, Venue). Check the Supported Platforms tab for more info.

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