Inspirata Lite Edition

In post-production, you can use INSPIRATA to automate the movement of your sound sources in any space, from near to far, from left to right, as well as all acoustic parameters. The sound will immediately follow and sound as if you were in the room—just without the environmental noise. This unique feature makes INSPIRATA a true workstation for spatial audio.

Revolutionary spatial controls

In INSPIRATA, we enable you to control parameters that really matter to your ears—you can adjust the room’s acoustics and sound directly instead of indirect properties that don’t change the sound. The time when you had to worry about hall size, wall diffusion or decorrelation, only to get different results in every room, is over. You now have full and independent control over how wide your sound source is in the space, how much of the mixed sound reaches you, and how much it envelops your ears. Spatial room-acoustic parameters such as apparent source sound width (ASW) and listener envelopment (LEV) can, for the first time, be controlled directly in any reverb solution. In addition to these revolutionary controls, you can also adjust the orientation of your speaker feeds in the room—so they point towards your stereo or surround setup in any direction. And you can change and automate all of these in real time.

Direct control over audio clarity

In INSPIRATA, reverb time and audio clarity can be adjusted independently, in each room, using a single dedicated control for each. Although these parameters are not completely independent, INSPIRATA pushes the boundaries and optimises the reflections one at a time to match the desired settings. The basis for the method of changing audio clarity (C80) has been published in an award-winning research paper by our team, and for the first time it is now available in a real-time implementation.

Reverb time controls

Reverb time, the mother of all acoustic parameters, is an important aspect of how long the decay lasts. But there is not a single reverb time in a hall, and not a single number at a given frequency. In natural spaces, reverb time varies slightly from place to place, and this is fully preserved in INSPIRATA. Not only is the variation reproduced with accuracy, but also the non-exponential nature of the decay in natural spaces across a dynamic range that fully covers the theoretical possibilities for audio reproduction.

In real spaces, reverb time is not only spatially dependent, but also frequency-dependent. Low tones usually reverberate for longer, while higher tones fade faster—due to, for example, the absorption of sound in the air in large volumes. The frequency-dependent nature of reverb time directly affects the overall tonal footprint of your sound. By using intuitive controls to set reverb time in a frequency-dependent way, or by tilting the controls to be more bass- or treble-heavy, you can fine-tune how the room matches your mix with just a few clicks and achieve a level of warmth or brightness that would otherwise be impossible to imagine.