Downmixer and method of downmixing

Downmixer and Method of Downmixing Abstract A downmixer for downmixing a multi-channel signal having at least two channels, comprises: a weighting value estimator (100) for estimating band-wise weighting values for the at least two channels; a spectral weighter (200) for weighting spectral domain representations of the at least two channels using the band-wise weighting values; a converter (300) for converting weighted spectral domain representations of the at least two channels into time representations of the at least two channels; and a mixer (400) for mixing the time representations of the at least two chan nels to obtain a downmix signal. Fig. 1 WO 2020/178321 PCT/EP2020/055669 left right channel channel weighting value _ 100 estimator spectral weighter 200 control control parameter parameter left right 300-- 30---frequency-time post-processor32 300 310converter (optional) ~ 2 400-- mixer tie time domain downmix signal (DOWNMIXER) Fig. 1