Audio Coding Using Downmix

An Audio decoder for decoding a multi-audio-object signal having an audio signal of a first type and an audio signal of a second type encoded therein is described, the multi-audio-object signal consisting of a downmix signal (56) and side information (58), the side information comprising level information (60) of the audio signal of the first type and the audio signal of the second type in a first predetermined time/frequency resolution (42), and a residual signal (62) specifying residual level values in a second predetermined time/frequency resolution, the audio decoder comprising means (52) for computing prediction coefficients (64) based on the level information (60); ; and means (54) for up-mixing the downmix signal (56) based on the prediction coefficients (64) and the residual signal (62) to obtain a first up-mix audio signal approximating the audio signal of the first type and/or a second up-mix audio signal approximating the audio signal of the second type.