aXMonitor

aXMonitor – Ambisonic Monitor Plugin

aXMonitor ambisonic monitor decodes ambisonic scenes of up to tenth-order to binaural for immersive listening over headphones. It supports the SOFA format so you can load customised HRTFs for a personalised listening experience.

It also decodes first-order signals to stereo loudspeakers, allowing you to distribute your immersive audio content via more traditional formats.

• Binaural Immersion: Convert to binaural using custom HRTFs via the SOFA format. Tenth-order processing gives high spatial and increased timbral fidelity compared to lower orders.

• UHJ Super Stereo: Output to UHJ “Super Stereo” or standard stereo to get a standard two-channel decode of your immersive scene. UHJ processing can be performed with either FIR or IIR filters.

• Ambisonic Order Detection: Processing automatically matches the order of the input signal to optimise CPU usage when working with lower order signals. No need to manually select your ambisonic order.

Features

• Binaural Output – default decoding using the HRTFs generated from Google’s Resonance Audio used by Google for YouTube 360.

• Custom HRTF Support – load custom HRTF via .SOFA files, allowing personalised binaural rendering for a more accurate monitoring experience.

• UHJ Super Stereo Output – advanced Ambisonics-to-stereo decoder with occasional “outside the speakers” effect (FIR and IIR filter implementations).

• Cardioid Stereo Decoding – point two cardioid microphones left and right to capture the signals and send them to the left/right speakers.

• Gain – adjust the level of the final output signal

Output High Resolution Tenth-Order Ambisonics

aXMonitor converts any ambisonic signal of up to tenth-order to binaural, letting you work with the highest spatial resolution currently available*.

* Currently only possible in Reaper 7+ which allows for tracks with up to 128 channels. Other DAWs are limited to seventh-order (Pro Tools Ultimate) or third-order (e.g. Cubase).

Input/Output formats

• Input: AmbiX (SN3D/ACN) Ambisonics from first- to tenth-order
• Output: Binaural, UHJ Super Stereo or Standard

macOS

• macO 10.13 or higher
• Additional Requirements: Universal Binary 2 for Intel/Apple Silicon

Windows

• Windows 10 or higher