

He also commented how the ATMOS version has to be within a certain degree of sameness as far as song spacing compared to the official release. Michael made some interesting comments about things like how hard (or impossible) it currently is to do gapless album masters for ATMOS because for the time during that crossfade, the already high number of channels/objects is doubled. Yes, there are very few standards in place for this format but with guys like Michael and Pete Lyman who currently do a lot of immersive/Atmos work and are WaveLab users, that’s a great resource to potentially tap and get it sorted out sooner than later.

This is something that WaveLab is in position to not only do, but be the first. He talks about some of the challenges he and other immersive mastering engineers face due to the lack of assembly tools for that format.
