Tools

trueSpatial WebSDK

atmoky

The atmoky trueSpatial WebSDK is a JavaScript package for binaural and spatial audio rendering in web applications. It provides a spatializer for multiple sound sources with distance attenuation and an externalization module, rooms with adjustable reverb and spatialized ambience, and playback of spatial audio formats. These capabilities power browser-based virtual spaces, WebXR and WebAR projects, games, interactive web players, and social web platforms such as arrival.space."

Plugin

trueAcoustics

atmoky

trueAcoustics is a real-time room acoustics and 3D reverb engine for interactive audio. It simulates sound propagation from scene geometry, including occlusion, diffraction, portal propagation, reverb spilling, and directional late reverb without pre-baked acoustic data, and includes HRTF-based binaural and loudspeaker spatialization. Used in game audio and XR production within Unreal Engine 5.

Plugin

Slovox Multichannel Test Suite

Slovox

The Slovox Multichannel Test Suite is a free Reaper JSFX plug-in for testing multichannel and immersive loudspeaker systems. It sequentially cycles test signals (pink noise, sine sweeps, bursts) across a selected range of channels to verify loudspeaker layout, routing, and operation, used to check ambisonic arrays, beamforming speakers, higher-order Ambisonic domes, and other spatial setups ahead of installations and gigs.

Sound Design

Generative Music

Incline

NeverEngineLabs

Incline (Toposonic Corpus Explorer) is a standalone granular instrument that uses machine-listening analysis to segment fixed audio into a navigable two-dimensional sonic map. It provides three playback modes (One Shot for segment audition, One Loop for continuous micro-loop traversal, and Cloud for distributed granular textures) plus a Contour Sequencer for automated traversal, used by composers and sound designers for granular resynthesis and corpus-based sound design.

SPATAI

sonicLAB

SPATAI is an AI-assisted spatial-motion tool that generates trajectories for up to 64 sound objects in a virtual 3D acoustic space from natural-language prompts. It runs Large Language Models in the cloud or locally via Ollama or LM Studio, supports Cartesian and polar coordinates, and sends OSC or MIDI motion data to third-party spatialisers including IEM, Holophonix, IRCAM Spat, IRCAM Panoramix, L-ISA, TiMax, ADM-OSC, and SPAT Revolution.

Generative Music

Sound Design

VR/AR

StarWaves

sonicPlanet

StarWaves is an audio-visual synthesiser for sonic-architecture and generative sound texture design. It places transmitter, particle, and beam objects in a non-gravitational 3D space whose kinetic interactions trigger granular-level sonic events, with scene capture, animated transitions, MIDI/OSC control, and a parallel VR version, used in sound design, generative music, and immersive composition.

Ambisonics

Sound Installation

Zirkonium

ZKM | Hertz-Lab

Zirkonium is a free macOS toolkit for spatial-audio composition and performance, developed at ZKM | Hertz-Lab Karlsruhe to drive the Klangdom — a 47-loudspeaker dome at the ZKM Kubus. Current version Zirkonium MK3 (since 2015) provides parametric trajectory creation over time, automatic interpolation, event filtering, and real-time rendering on arbitrary 2D or 3D loudspeaker setups. The DSP server is built on Pure Data (libpd) and uses VBAP, Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA library, CICM), and binau

Framework / SDK

Wwise

Audiokinetic

Wwise is an audio middleware suite for interactive media and games. It comprises a graphical authoring tool and a cross-platform sound engine, with components for spatial audio, interactive music, dynamic mixing, and integrated platform support, used in game audio production, automotive sound, acoustic simulations and location-based entertainment.

WFSCollider

Game Of Life Foundation

WFSCollider is a SuperCollider class library for Wave Field Synthesis spatialisation with a graphical timeline, trajectory editor, and modular Unit Library audio plug-in system. It supports point sources, plane waves, and per-speaker indexing, with sample-accurate scheduling across distributed servers, used in WFS composition and large-scale loudspeaker array performance.

Plugin

Ambisonics

Waves Nx

Waves Audio

Waves Nx is a commercial monitoring plug-in that simulates a high-end mixing room over headphones via binaural processing and modelled early reflections. It supports stereo, 5.0/5.1/7.1 surround, and Ambisonic B-format monitoring (Nx Ambisonics component) for 360° and VR work. Real-time head tracking is supported via webcam or the dedicated Nx Head Tracker hardware; the plug-in includes EQ correction profiles for 270+ headphone models based on the Harman Headphone Target Curve.

Framework / SDK

Unreal Engine MetaSounds

Epic Games

MetaSounds is the procedural audio system in Unreal Engine 5, providing audio designers with node-graph control over DSP graph generation for sound sources. It supports sample-accurate triggers, runtime modification via the MetaSound Builder API, and integrated spatialization, used in game audio, interactive media, and real-time virtual production.