SoundObject creates a binaural sound with the senses of three-dimensional sound localization from a monaural acoustic source and its positional information. It supports headphones-based as well as stereo speakers-based 3D spatial sound. Furthermore, it could also support headphones monitoring of stereo speakers sound.
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Conventional three-dimensional binaural sound processors implement sound localization with the convolution of an acoustic source and head-related impulse response (HRIR) that represents scattering by the head. Since the convolution consumes a large amount of computational resource, SoundObject assumes that scattering by a head consists of scattering by a rigid sphere and pinnae (earlobes), then enables sound localization with simplified sphere and pinna scattering effect filters.
And in many cases, conventional convolution-based binaural sound rarely creates a sense of front distance, while SoundObject enables it by reflected waves in a reverberation room.
Furthermore, Doppler effect inevitably results from a moving acoustic source. Generally, sine waves whose frequency difference is 0.3% are distinguishable as different sounds. This fact implies that the recognizable Doppler effect results from an acoustic source whose speed exceeds approximately 1m/s. Since it is never high speed, SoundObject constantly adds Doppler effect when an acoustic source is moving.
SoundObject is provided as a VST 3 plug-in for digital audio workstations (DAW) and supports 44.1kHz, 48kHz, and 96kHz sampling rates. OS environments are 64-bit Windows 10 and macOS 10.14.
SoundObject
Reviewed By Blub98
January 3rd, 2022
Nice tool. Very useful for precise positioning of sounds in a room. I will use it for my mixes. Thank you.
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Reviewed By obeycelestia
November 24th, 2021
Giving this 5 stars because I love it, but it does crash my Reaper (6.42 on Win 10.) Developers giving away creative tools to the community is AWESOME! Thanks so much.
EDIT: Copy the whole SoundObject.vst3 FOLDER over into your plugins directory, not just the vst3 file. This fixed the above for me, it works perfectly now.
SoundObject
Reviewed By Mastartiq
November 23rd, 2021
Another amazing Open-Source FX VST! I love to use it as a creative tool on mono synths or sounds. Thank you for this, appreciate all your work.
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