NAMM 2023Ginger Audio releases GroundControl Sphere: Monitoring software solution for Dolby Atmos

Ginger Audio has announced the release of GroundControl Sphere, a professional multichannel audio routing and control room application for Mac users.

Dolby Atmos support

Sphere is a powerful software monitoring solution for surround and immersive sound, supporting speaker layouts of up to 9.1.6. Users can monitor up to eight speaker sets simultaneously, any output can be routed to all the speakers or any subset of speakers. Users can also initialize and reference different speaker systems.

Monitoring flexibility

GroundControl Sphere allows users to route audio from DAW, Dolby renderer, Apple music, Tidal, or any other streaming platform, for referencing purposes. Sphere lets users input up to eight audio sources of any kind using its extensive virtual audio bridge capabilities.

Room Correction and 3rd party plugin support

Sphere features built-in room correction processing, offering comprehensive bass management and time and level alignment for each speaker. Users can utilize any of their favorite EQ plugins on any speaker output. They can also use multiple instances of their room correction plugin on any output.

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Features:

• Eight Inputs, each can be set from 2.0 up to 9.1.6 layout.
• Integrated Stereo, Mono & Sides Down-mixing.
• Seven Speaker Outputs of any layout.
• CUE bus.
• Compatible with All core audio devices – up to 16 different audio devices can be assigned.
• Talk Back, Listen Back.
• Extensive Metering.
• Bass management.
• AU plugin hosting.
• Remote controllability with MIDI & Hotkeys.

** EUCON control support coming soon.
** Stream Deck integration coming soon.

System Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.14+.
• Compatible with any DAW environment.
• HDX – Pro Tools 2022.9 and later (Aux IO).

GroundControl Sphere offers two flavors to meet the needs of every audio professional, both are offered now with a 20% discount:

• Sphere Studio supports up to 2.1 channels, priced at 199, now for 159 USD.
• Sphere Atmos supporting up to 9.1.6, priced at 499, now for 399 USD.

With a 14-day free trial, users can fully test the software before making a purchase.

GroundControl Sphere is available for purchase and download from: gingeraudio.com

For more information about GroundControl Sphere, please visit: gingeraudio.com/docs/sphere-manual