EMPOWER CREATIVITY
The Immersive Audio Revolution
From Creation to Real-time Immersive Delivery
Empowering artists, sound-designers and sound-engineers virtually unlimited possibilities to design, create and mix an outstanding real-time immersive experience.
From decades of groundbreaking research at IRCAM
Spat Revolution is the result of a successful partnership between Flux:: engineering and the French research institute IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music), created to make decades of groundbreaking research performed at IRCAM available to the world in a format adapted for the workflow in the digital music and audio industry.
SPAT REVOLUTION – A living organism
With the diversity of the SPAT Revolution, so many different scopes for using it, and with so many users already expressing their different needs and requesting features, it has already become like a living organism.
The decision to release the software, does not mean that this is it, this is what you get and that’s it. Au contraire, we already have a long list of features and updates in development, and the team working on the software will stay busy for an unforeseeable future moving the SPAT Revolution project forward.
SPAT REVOLUTION – A living organism
With the diversity of the SPAT Revolution, so many different scopes for using it, and with so many users already expressing their different needs and requesting features, it has already become like a living organism.
The decision to release the software, does not mean that this is it, this is what you get and that’s it. Au contraire, we already have a long list of features and updates in development, and the team working on the software will stay busy for an unforeseeable future moving the SPAT Revolution project forward.
SPAT Revolution Features
Created for audio professionals and designed to easily integrate into any workflow
SPAT Revolution Features
Created for audio professionals and designed to easily integrate into any workflow
DAW integration and Remote integration with Control Devices and Live Sound Consoles
DAW integration for control and automation of Sources, Rooms and Masters using a set of standard plug-ins; Send, Return and Room (AAX, AU, VST) supporting local and network communication between the DAW and Spat Revolution.
Remote integration using control devices, remote control software, trajectory software and digital mixing consoles over network, through the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol.
Real-time tracking system integration of sources and listener positions
Spat Revolution integrates with real-time tracking systems such as the BlackTrax Real Time Tracking system, listening to the BlackTrax tracking protocol for communicating positional data between BlackTrax and Spat systems.
Using tracking beacons assigned to a source or to a listener makes it easy to automatically control the position of an audio object based on the location of a person or an object.
Real-time tracking system integration of sources and listener positions
Spat Revolution integrates with real-time tracking systems such as the BlackTrax Real Time Tracking system, listening to the BlackTrax tracking protocol for communicating positional data between BlackTrax and Spat systems.
Using tracking beacons assigned to a source or to a listener makes it easy to automatically control the position of an audio object based on the location of a person or an object.
Various panning techniques including non sweet spot wide area options for live and installation
A range of various different panning techniques, including panning techniques for working with audiences in wide areas not confined to traditional sweet spots for live and installation setups.
• Vector-based amplitude panning (VBAP 2D & 3D)
• Distance-based amplitude panning (DBAP 2D & 3D)
• Vector-based intensity panning (VBIP 2D & 3D
• Nearest-neighbor amplitude panning
• Speaker-placement correction amplitude panning (SPCAP)
• Ambisonic equivalent panning (AEP)
Various panning techniques including non sweet spot wide area options for live and installation
A range of various different panning techniques, including panning techniques for working with audiences in wide areas not confined to traditional sweet spots for live and installation setups.
• Vector-based amplitude panning (VBAP 2D & 3D)
• Distance-based amplitude panning (DBAP 2D & 3D)
• Vector-based intensity panning (VBIP 2D & 3D
• Nearest-neighbor amplitude panning
• Speaker-placement correction amplitude panning (SPCAP)
• Ambisonic equivalent panning (AEP)
Spatialization, Sources and Room Simulation
The incoming audio signal is assigned to a practically unrestricted number of source objects, with the only actual limitation set by the computer hardware specifications. Each source object is attributed with an extensive set of parameters controlling all aspects of the source in the space including; position, barycentric, radiation as well as perceptual factors such as presence, warmth, brilliance.
The source objects appears in a virtual room, and may also be assigned to multiple virtual rooms, with different acoustic simulations and multiple different output destinations.
MORE FEATURES
Efficient and creative working environment for the user
Choose your audio interface with low latency options
Spat Revolution is designed for real-time processing and supports standard ASIO and Core Audio audio-interfaces, with low latency options, for easy integration with already existing workflows and workstation setups.
Binaural audio for Artist Monitoring and Audience Experience
Spat Revolution’s powerful object based structure provides the ability to render several different output formats in parallel, including Binaural encoding.
While mixing for a multichannel speaker setup, artist monitoring and an additional audience experience using headphones, with a Binaural representation of the mix, is only a button aw
Multiple Input and Output Transcoders
A wide range of input and output transcoders are provided, including:
- Channel Based (C.B) to Channel Based; Channel splitter aggregator
- HOA to HOA for conversion of normalization and channel-arrangement
- HOA to Channel Based
- A-Format to B-Format
- A/B-Format to Channel Based
- A/B-Format to HOA
- B-Format to UHJ
- UHJ to B-Format
- Mid/Side (MS) to Channel Based
- Binaural to Transaural
Multiple Input Stream Formats
SPAT Revolution mixes, reverberates and spatializes audio from all types of microphones, arrays, high order Ambisonic captures, and from any type of pre-produced stems, supporting a vast range of input stream formats.
- Channel-Based (C.B) ; any number of inputs
- Higher-Order Ambisonic (HOA) ; up to order 7
- A-Format
- B-Format
- UHJ
- Mid-Side (MS)
- Binaural
- Transaural
Comprehensive Loudspeaker Configuration
The unlimited number of outputs are configurable in any kind of current speaker system setup format, as well as with custom speaker system setups.
- Stereo
- QUAD
- 5.1
- 7.1
- CUBE
- Dolby Atmos
- Auro 3D
- Mpeg H
- Demi Sphere
- NHK 22.2
- Various other formats
Virtual Room Concept
In Spat Revolution the source objects are spatialized inside virtual rooms with internal spatial positioning, panning, reverberation and output format taken into consideration when calculating movement and position inside the room.
In order to encompass various different workflow ideas or experimental approaches, several different rooms can be created and used simultaneously in parallel, with individual independent formats including; Channel Based, Binaural, High Order Ambisonic (HOA), B-Format and Mid Side.
Virtual Room Concept
In Spat Revolution the source objects are spatialized inside virtual rooms with internal spatial positioning, panning, reverberation and output format taken into consideration when calculating movement and position inside the room.
In order to encompass various different workflow ideas or experimental approaches, several different rooms can be created and used simultaneously in parallel, with individual independent formats including; Channel Based, Binaural, High Order Ambisonic (HOA), B-Format and Mid Side.
Nebula Spatial Spectrogram
Nebula is a technology adapted from Flux:: Real-time Analyzer System; the Pure Analyzer, simulating how sound sources localize their direct sound over different speaker setups, providing a unique representation of the sound-field, in terms of spectral content and localization, in Real-time inside the 3D speaker simulation and virtual room display.
Spat Revolution
Stand alone Application
Send / Return / Room Plugins Compatiblity
Mac OS and Windows
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Documentation
This is where it starts, and we are busy creating more documentation, videos, templates and other assets. This will continue, and we welcome you to contact our helpdesk and let us know what You think would be a great addition to this!
All updates and new assets will be posted here on this webpage.
Additional resources
Specifications
Availability
Send/Return/Room plugins are available in AU / VST / AAX Native
Processing
- unlimited number of Input and Output (depending on hardware audio interfaces).
- 32/64-bits internal floating point processing.
- Sampling rate up to 384 kHz
Spat Revolution – Send/Room/Return plugins:
OS Compatibility
- Windows – 7 SP1, 8.1 and 10, all in 64 bits only.
- Mac OS X (Intel) – All versions from 10.7.5 (64bit only)
Hardware Requirements
Audio Interfaces:
- Mac OS X: any Core Audio compatible interface or virtual sound card
- Windows: any ASIO compatible interface or virtual sound card
A graphic card fully supporting OpenGL 2.0 is required.
- 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.