making a list of plugins and techniques for distance emulation

[j wazza]

I'm starting to make a list of spatialisation plugins with distance knobs or control over source/listener position, I'm still adding to the list and please let me know if you know others. I've split this up into spatialisers without reverb, hybrid reverb/spatialisers, and convolution with variable positions

distance/soundstage plugins:

• tdr proximity - free

• 2c audio precedence

• sound particles air (including free music edition) and space controller.

reverbs with distance emulation:

• sixth sample further - great plugin for 25 dollars

• 2c audio b2 - has air filters that can be put in the feedback loop. breeze interacts with precedence for spatialised reverb. aether has a position knob.

• wavearts panorama 7 - much better than version 6

• vcv soundstage

• ea reverb

• fabfilter pro r

• eventide sp2016, T-verb

• hyperspace

• softube atlantis dual chambers

• liquidsonics cinematic rooms and illusion, which sound great, but the distance knobs dont do that much

• dearVR - including cheap and free versions

• tc electronic vss4 - sounds nice but only subtle distance

• lese eigen

• auburn sounds panagement https://www.auburnsounds.com/products/Panagement.html

• ua tails

• waves trueverb, doppler

• melda mreverb, possibly mturboreverb

• Parallax-Audio Virtual Sound Stage 2.

• SpaceVR by InaGRM:
  https://inagrm.com/en/showcase/news/598/nouveaux-spaces

• ARverb room - buttons for selectable distances and pan angles https://arverb.com/

convolution reverbs with IRs for different positions

• overloud rematrix player + blackstar library - free

• altiverb - very expensive

• hofa IQ-reverb

• nugen paragon

• inspirata by inspired acoustics

other ways of adding distance - filtering, using a compressor or transient designer to soften attack, static or subtly moving phasers to smear the different frequencies over time, layering a slightly timestretched version of a sound with reverb and filtering

[heyheycnv]

The old Ambeo Orbit which is now the new dearVR Micro - https://en-us.sennheiser.com/ambeo-orbit

I thought the Ambeo Orbit sounded way better than dearVR. Haven't tested out this new incarnation to see if it got screwed up.

[yzcoruhT]

[muki]

auburn sounds panagement
https://www.auburnsounds.com/products/Panagement.html

[muki]

the eventide 2016 stereo room also (like th sp2016) has a distance front/rear control
https://www.eventideaudio.com/plug-ins/ ... ereo-room/

[kvaca]

even 20+years old Trueverb from Waves got usable distance control...but NOTHING can beat convolution reverb with proper IRs /at least in terms of realism/

[gaggle of hermits]

melda mreverb has x-y position control.

[j wazza]

Thank you for the recommendations!

I use bitwig which has a similar xy pad that can be used for diy spatial positioning

NOTHING can beat convolution reverb with proper IRs /at least in terms of realism/

Do you know any good IR plugins or libraries with source or mic positioning? altiverb is out of my price range but 1-200 would be ok

[jamcat]

Parallax-Audio Virtual Sound Stage 2.

[cthonophonic]

There's also SpaceVR by InaGRM:
https://inagrm.com/en/showcase/news/598/nouveaux-spaces

Though I've found it kind of frustrating to work with, at least it's free!

[kvaca]

Do you know any good IR plugins or libraries with source or mic positioning? altiverb is out of my price range but 1-200 would be ok

popular IR libraries /altiverb,waves.../are not cheap and still are limited in many ways...to cut long story short: nothing can beat your own IR library!

long story: for instance in famous concert hall you can realize you need hundrets of source positions only for ONE mic position, which also represents only one of MANY possible different mic positions, and you can prefer many different sounding mics in these positions...etc...result is: you end up with many hundrets of IRs to fully represent all instruments/=position/ and all seats/=distance/only for one concert hall!...unfortunately mentioned IR libraries offer you only very limited set of IRs for one concert hall, because recording all possible source or mic positions is very time consuming task/=expensive/which majority of people hardly ever appreciate...

[jamcat]

I'm starting to make a list of spatialisation plugins

Is that the list in the first post?
If it is, I hope it will be cleaned up, with full proper developer/plugin names, readable text formatting, and links added.

[camsr]

Awesome

[MogwaiBoy]

Turn it down + high and low pass

[Uncle E]

Sound Particles Space Controller. Use your phone as a hardware controller to move objects in 3D space:

https://www.jrrshop.com/sound-particles ... r-standard

The aforementioned Auburn Sounds Panagement has binaural panning and delay, and we currently have it on sale for $12.99:

https://www.jrrshop.com/auburn-sounds-panagement