Looking for an audio plugin like Wave Hammer Surround.

Dan-Alva wrote on 6/21/2021, 7:31 PM

Years ago when I used to use Sony Vegas, I used the Wave Hammer Surround plugin as a sound limiter. It was easy to use and relatively quick. I can't find any plugin as similar as Wave Hammer Surround -- I tried other plug-ins that supposedly have the capabilities but I can't get them to work. Wave Hammer Surround was so ridiculously easy and I am frustrated right now.

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Musicvid wrote on 6/21/2021, 10:35 PM

Wave Hammer comes with Sound Forge, not Vegas. If you have Sound Forge installed, it should show up in Vegas fx at least it used to.

You may find some worthy VST alternatives to Wave Hammer at ToneBoosters, Some of which include ATSC/A85 and EBU/R128 broadcast mastering. The guy is pretty nice, as you can run them in demo mode forever.

Marco. wrote on 6/22/2021, 4:30 AM

»Wave Hammer comes with Sound Forge, not Vegas.«

It seems like meanwhile it's core part of Vegas Pro. I don't have Sound Forge installed on my new system but Wave Hammer Surround is available in Vegas Pro 18. Not sure if it's also available in Movie Studio, though.

EricLNZ wrote on 6/22/2021, 6:35 AM

Not sure if it's also available in Movie Studio

I cannot find it in VMS17 Plat unless it's under another name.

 

Musicvid wrote on 6/22/2021, 6:43 AM

»Wave Hammer comes with Sound Forge, not Vegas.«

It seems like meanwhile it's core part of Vegas Pro. I don't have Sound Forge installed on my new system but Wave Hammer Surround is available in Vegas Pro 18. Not sure if it's also available in Movie Studio, though.

That's more likely the correct answer for newer versions than my advice, which is dated.

Henrique-GomesCoe wrote on 4/7/2023, 11:33 AM

Hi. I use Vegar Movie Studio 15 and would like to add a limiter. This wave hammer surround doesn't appear on the Fx list. Is it possible to download it somewhere?

Dexcon wrote on 4/8/2023, 12:39 AM

To my knowledge, Wave Hammer is built in to Vegas Pro and SoundForge Pro's program coding. I have never seen it made available as a separately available VST plugin free or paid.

The first reply (by MusicVid) on this thread provided some alternatives.

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FayFen wrote on 4/8/2023, 1:45 AM

@Henrique-GomesCoe , for ~$26 you can have VP18 and SF

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/king-content-creator-bundle-software

vkmast wrote on 4/8/2023, 2:10 AM

That HB offer includes SF Audio Studio 15.

Little_Green_Dog wrote on 5/4/2024, 10:34 AM

I have Vegas 21 installed on my desktop and have used Wave Hammer there, but today, I opened one of my projects that used the plugin on my laptop, and Vegas 21 complained that the Wave Hammer plugin was missing.

This makes me think Vegas 21, does not come with Wave Hammer. I'm guessing I had Wave Hammer installed on my desktop because I do have an older release of Sound Forge installed there.

Anyway, the reason I came here today was to look for an alternative to Wave Hammer that's as good or better, but doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

I'm going to check out the ToneBoosters suggestions above, but are there other alternatives I should check out.

Thanks in advance for any reply! 🐱

john_dennis wrote on 5/4/2024, 3:12 PM

@Little_Green_Dog said: "This makes me think Vegas 21, does not come with Wave Hammer. I'm guessing I had Wave Hammer installed on my desktop because I do have an older release of Sound Forge installed there."

Vegas 21 installs Wave Hammer Surround while Sound Forge installs a stereo version, Wave Hammer. The surround sound version will work on stereo projects, but you'll only see two meter channels responding. They are different fX, so you'd possibly have to add the surround sound version if the project was looking for the stereo version from Sound Forge.

Little_Green_Dog wrote on 5/4/2024, 4:08 PM

Ah! You are correct, sir!

I checked Vegas 21 on my laptop, and sure enough, Wave Hammer Surround is there.

I swapped it out with the stereo version in my project, and all is good now.

Mystery solved!

Also, I think I don't need to look for an alternative now. Thank you! 🐱

mark-y wrote on 5/6/2024, 1:29 PM

When you're ready to move up to an integrated compressor / loudness metering solution, I suggest you look at Toneboosters Barricade 4. Hint: you can run it in demo mode forever.

Little_Green_Dog wrote on 5/6/2024, 2:20 PM

Cool! Thanks for the tip, mark-y!