01AuditionAvailable
Select a file. Hear it instantly.
A translucent panel docks under the front Finder window and plays whatever you select. Space plays instead of Quick Look. When you need more, the in-app library browser searches filenames and folders as you type.
- Click the waveform to play from that point. Drag to audition just a selection.
- Drag a selection straight into Pro Tools, Logic, Reaper or Wwise as a clean 24-bit WAV.
- Output profiles for a 9.1.6 Atmos room, nearfield speakers and headphones.
- Ambisonics (AmbiX or FuMa, first to third order) decoded to 9.1.6 speakers or binaural, with yaw, pitch and roll.
- Drag Ambisonics out as 9.1.6, 7.1.4 or 5.1 beds, or as binaural.
- Open a copied link to pull audio from a URL.
- Upmix stereo to 9.1.6, 7.1.4 or 5.1 in one click, with Music, Film, Game, Hall, Speech and Broadcast presets. Drag the upmix out as a bed.
Under the hood
- AllRAD Ambisonics decoding onto your real speaker positions. Beds map speaker to speaker by label, and anything missing goes to the nearest speaker.
- Headphones go through Apple’s HRTF renderer on virtual speakers for binaural. Stereo stays stereo.
- Lock-free real-time render path: ring buffer and mix kernel in C. Playback resamples to the interface’s rate, so your DAW keeps the device.
- 24-bit WAV drag-outs. 5.1, 7.1 and 7.1.4 carry WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE channel masks; 9.1.6 is written in SMPTE order and says so in the bext description.
- Reads WAV, BWF, RF64, W64, AIFF, CAF, FLAC, MP3 and AAC/M4A. Channel layouts come from the file.
- Upmix splits each frequency bin into direct and ambient sound (principal component, Wiener-weighted). Direct sound is re-panned across the front, and ambience is decorrelated into the surrounds and heights. About 21 ms of latency. Broadcast is fold-down exact: its 2.0 fold-down nulls against the source below −120 dB.