Object-based and perceptual immersive mixing tools, SPAT Revolution is the unique standalone application providing artists, sound-designers and sound-engineers virtually any possibilities to design, create and mix an outstanding real-time immersive experience.
SPAT Revolution includes three plugins for integration to various DAW and host platforms. The Immersive Audio Revolution.
SPAT Revolution is available in two versions; the SPAT Revolution Essential with everything needed to get started with immersive creation, and the SPAT Revolution Ultimate version for advanced immersive creation and productions.
Bring a sense of space and depth to your mix with the next generation audio mixing concepts
A revolutionary object & perceptual immersive mixing tool redefining the way of mixing where you intuitively position objects in spaces and let the acoustic signature of the room build the desired depth
Bring your various audio sources as objects moving into a virtual space in a output format agnostic way while allowing you to create acoustic space (reverberation) with localized reflections.
It simply means spaciousness to your mix from multiple sound source formats supported.
Render for various deliverables
Audio is literally living a paradigm shift, moving beyond stereo to various spatial audio techniques. At the core of SPAT Revolution is a desire not to impose on panning methods and spatialization techniques rather to offer a wide range of possibilities, including panning techniques for working with audiences in wide areas not confined to traditional sweet spots for live and installation setups.
Being for improving the frontal resolution for concert diffusion, to immerse the audience with surround audio, to render to any channel-based or scene-based formats, to deliver spatial audio over headphones, SPAT Revolution simply opens up to the most advanced techniques and brings them to your fingertips.
Deliver a stable soundscape throughout an entire listening area with WFS
With today’s demand for the entertainment to completely immerse the audience in the experience, and for producing a stable soundscape image throughout an entire audience listening area, the distinctive WFS , Wave Field Synthesis technique for spatial audio reproduction is offered as a license add-on option to SPAT Revolution Ultimate offer.
WFS aims to reproduce the true physical attributes of a given sound field (the waves front) over an extended listening area, an approach that relies on delay and amplitude. It is deployed on collinear speaker systems (line of speakers in a frontal setting) and with qualified 2D/3D speaker arrangements surrounding the audience.
Designed to integrate into any workflow
Rapidly deploy and manage your object-based mix session using a simple setup wizard using your physical or virtual audio interface of choice as your hardware I/O or vastly expand your DAW’s capabilities using SPAT plugin suites (AAX, AU, VST) and audio pipe technology for software audio routing and parameters automation
Add remote integration using control devices, show control application, trajectory software and digital mixing consoles over the network, through the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol.
Features
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Essential |
Ultimate |
| Setup Wizard |
✓
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✓
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| Module configuration and manual setup management (Add, Remove and Duplicate) |
✓
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✓
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| Multi virtual room environments |
Single Room
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✓
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| Efficiency zone and clamping |
✓
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✓
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| Acoustic Simulation / Reverberation |
✓
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✓
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| Channel-Based delivery |
Up to 16 channel arrangements (including Dolby Atmos 7.1.4)
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Up to 128 channel arrangements
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| Binaural delivery |
✓
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✓
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| Ambisonic (HOA) delivery |
Up to 3rd order
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Up to 7th order
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| Mid-Side M/S delivery |
✓
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✓
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| Ambisonic sources with trancoders |
Unrestricted
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Unrestricted
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| Binaural Monitoring |
Multiple
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Multiple
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| Near Field Binaural , Spherical Head Model, Snow Man Model binaural mode |
✓
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✓
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| HRTF Library |
Complete HRTF Listen library
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Complete HRTF Listen library
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| HRTF Import of SOFA files |
✓
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Import and Export manager
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| OSC Integration |
✓
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✓
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| OSC Transformation presets |
✓
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✓
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| Custom OSC Transformation |
✓
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✓
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| RTTrPM Tracking intergration |
✓
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✓
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| Channel-based to Channel-based splitter aggregator |
✓
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✓
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| Binaural – Transaural – Binaural transcoding |
✓
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✓
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| Nebula Spatial Spectrogram |
✓
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✓
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| Terminal Commands |
Terminal activity log only
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✓
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| Panning |
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Essential |
Ultimate |
| XY/AB/StereoPan with 7 Stereo panning law options |
✓
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✓
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| XY/AB/StereoPan with 7 Stereo panning law options |
✓
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✓
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| VBP – Vector Based Panning |
VBAP, VBIB, DualBand, HybridVBAP |
VBAP, VBIB, DualBand, HybridVBAP
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| LBAP – Layer Based Amplitude Panning |
✓
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✓
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| DBAP – Distance Based Amplitude Panning |
✓
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✓
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| KNN – K Nearest Neighbour |
✓
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✓
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| AEP – Ambisonic Equivalent Panning |
✓
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✓
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| WFS – Wave Field Synthesis |
With WFS option license
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With WFS option license
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| Ambisonic / HOA |
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Essential |
Ultimate |
| Ambisonic (HOA) delivery |
Up to 3rd order
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Up to 7th order
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| HOA Preset: AmbiX, B-Format, SPAT Room and Custom |
✓
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✓
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| N2D/N3D, SN2D/SN3D, FuMa, MAxN Normalization |
✓
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✓
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| ACN, FMH and SID Sorting |
✓
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✓
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| Projection, Regularized Pseudo-Inverse ,Energy preserving, AllRad, Improved AllRAD decoding methods |
✓
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✓
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| Basic, InPhase, MaxRe, BasicMaxRe, MaxReInPhase, InPhaseMaxRe type decoding type |
✓
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✓
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| UHJ Stream type support |
✓
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✓
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Software Licence Requirements
An iLok.com user account is required, the iLok USB Smart Key is supported but not required, and authorization can be made to hardware machines/workstations.
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Essential |
Ultimate |
| Ilok account required |
✓
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✓
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| Machine authorization is supported |
✓
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✓
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| iLok USB Smart Key support (From 2nd gen) |
✓
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✓
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| iLok Cloud support |
✓
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✓
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| Simultaneous authorizations (2) |
Single activation
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✓
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| SPAT Essential license |
✓
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Included in SPAT Ultimate bundle
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| SPAT Ultimate license |
✘
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Included in SPAT Ultimate bundle
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| WFS Panning Add-on Option Support – Now on Essential too |
✓
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✓
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OS Compatibility
Hardware Recommendations and Requirements
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Essential |
Ultimate |
| Specifications Listed Below |
✓
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✓
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Single Computer (Creative Station with DAW and SPAT Revolution)
Single computer systems can provide an excellent option for portability but come with the importance of having a performing computer. As SPAT Revolution comes with a 3D graphic engine where audio objects are manipulated, GPU resources are required.
Recommended hardware:
- Apple Silicon / ARM M1 *
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- Mac Studio M1Max / M1 Ultra off the shelf models
- Mac Mini M1 Chip
- MacBook Pro (13/14/16) M1 Chip
- Apple Intel
- MacPro
- iMac Pro
- MacBook Pro with PCIe bus graphic card
* SPAT Revolution is fully supported to Silicon / ARM Apple computers via the Rosetta binary translator.
Generic hardware specification:
- Processing: Intel Core i9-9900K, i7-9700K or equivalent. Intel 8th generation or greater processor. (Minimum 6 cores – 8 preferred), 8 MB Cache.
- System Memory: 16 minimum GB DDR4 (32 preferred when integrating with DAW and SPAT Revolution on the same machine with local audio path – LAP)
- Chipset: High-quality / Professional mainboard such as Intel® Z370 Chipset
- Graphic: GeForce GTX 1060 – 4GB GDDR5 Graphic Memory or greater (Graphic card fully supporting OpenGL 2.0 is required. USB displays are not supported)
- Audio Interfaces:
- Mac OS: Core Audio compatible interface or virtual sound card
- Windows: ASIO compatible interface or virtual sound card.
Hardware for Live Productions (Dedicated SPAT Revolution Computer)
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Recommended audio interfaces:
- RME Digiface AVB or Dante, USB 3 Audio interface
- RME Madi HDSPe, MADI FX or MADIface XT
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Recommended hardware:
- Apple Silicon / ARM M1
- Mac Studio M1 Max (10-Core CPU, 24-Core GPU, 32 GB RAM)
- Mac Studio M1 Ultra (20-Core CPU, 48-Core GPU, 64 GB RAM)
- Apple Intel
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MacPro, 3.5GHz 8‑core Intel Xeon W processor,Radeon Pro W5500X, 32 GB RAM
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Generic recommended hardware specification:
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- Intel® Xeon® W family W-2200 or W-3200 Series CPU (preferred), E-22xx, or equivalent. Higher core speed. Minimum 8 Cores, 12 MB Cache
- Chipset: Professional workstation chipset C422, C621, or equivalent.
- System Memory: 32 – 64 GB. A system with ECC support is preferred.
- Graphic: Professional NVIDIA Quadro P4000 or equivalent – 8GB GDDR5 Graphic Memory (Graphic card with full support for OpenGL 2.0)
- Network: Dual network interface (NIC) – Intel I210-T1 or equivalent
- OS drive (Operating System): NVMe Internal SSD
- Audio Projects Hard Drive: No specifics. For redundant systems, only certified RAID systems should be used.
- OS: Mac OS High Sierra – Monterey. Windows Pro 10 64-bit. Real-Time optimized OS with minimum services.
- Mac OS X – OpenGL 2.0 required – Mac Pro 1.1 & Mac Pro 2.1 are not supported.
- Windows – If your computer has an ATi or NVidia graphics card, please assure the latest graphic drivers from the ATi or NVidia website are installed.
Certified configurations (SPAT Revolution v.22.02.50151 and above)
These configurations are tested and validated on a computer dedicated to SPAT Revolution. All other applications have been closed, and computer has been optimized as indicated below.
Computer optimization:
- Disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth if not absolutely required
- Disable Airdrop
- Disable Spotlight
- Disable display sleep, disk spin-down, and system sleep
- Disable screen saver
- Disable Time Machine
- Disable software update
- Disable dashboard (Catalina and prior)
- Disable photos processing and Cloud services
- Log out of iCloud
Complete Certified Configurations
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Essential |
Ultimate |
| Windows 10 – 64 bits only |
✓
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✓
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| macOS – All versions from 10.15 including macOS Big Sur and Monterey compliant * |
✓
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✓
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| * See Hardware Recommendations and Requirements section for more information on compatibility. |
