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Sonarworks SoundID Multichannel with Measurement Mic is a room correction solution, purposed-designed for surround systems up to 9.1.6. Scaled for multichannel configurations including Dolby Atmos, the Sonarworks SoundID Multichannel provides consistent and accurate monitoring solutions for surround systems by using its advanced proprietary measurement setup and individually calibrated microphone. Comprised of a microphone, clip, thread and software package, the Sonarworks SoundID Multichannel provides everything you need to calibrate your surround system to create mixes that translate across multiple platforms - including Dolby Atmos.
Using the guided 37-step setup, you can calibrate your surround mixing system to produce a flat response, Dolby Atmos curve or a user-customised target curve to produce accurate monitoring to ensure translation across multiple systems. Calibrating your system will improve your soundstage by adjusting the phase-based time alignment of your speaker channels with sub-millisecond accuracy as well as creating a tailored frequency response to your requirements. Delivered with both plug-in format and standalone application, Sonarworks SoundID Multichannel can be used in your DAW master output or exported to supported hardware for complete integration to your system.
Ideal for games, film, TV and augmented/virtual reality productions, SoundID Multichannel lets you mix in confidence all while providing you with a plethora of customisation options including three filtering options, target curve response and safe headroom for maximum flexibility and integration to your workflow.
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No matter what studio or location you are mixing surround audio in, the SoundID Multichannel offers consistency across different locations, users and measurements to create a consistent listening experience. The combination of a patented microphone location algorithm, 37-point measurement system and individually calibrated microphone ensures that you will follow the same procedure across multiple systems. By doing this, Sonarworks SoundID Multichannel learns the frequency response of each measured point as well as the location around your listening position, ensuring a more accurate calibration for systems up to 9.1.6.
Upgraded for the Multichannel system, the microphone included with your Sonarworks SoundID now features multi-angle calibration profiles for 0, 30 and 90-degree angles. Often in surround systems, your speakers will be at angles across the plane from floor to ceiling, meaning now your calibration can account for acoustic variances in your space across both the X and Y-axis.
An essential aspect when mixing or mastering surround audio is the time it takes for each speaker to hit the listening position. Speakers that arrive at different times to you will result in an imbalanced sound with an incoherent sound stage which will be even more emphasised by the inclusion of a subwoofer in your system. In order to avoid this, the Sonarworks SoundID Multichannel accurately measures the phase relationship of speakers within your surround system, calculating the required time delay needed per speaker and applying this to your calibration. The result will be a sharp and precise sound that's cohesive across every speaker, allowing you to create a soundstage even more accurately than ever before.
With sub-millisecond precision, SoundID Multichannel delivers the perfect time alignment for your listening position. Using advanced phase response measurements during the speaker measurement process, no additional measurement steps are required and you will be guided step-by-step to ensure maximum efficiency across your system.
Traditionally, studios mixing audio in stereo will aim for flat response to create mixes that translate across different systems and speakers. Surround audio differs slightly as achieving a flat response is not always the aim. Knowing this, Sonarworks SoundID Multichannel offers a few target modes to choose from depending on your situation.
Much like other Sonarworks products, Multichannel offers a 'flat' response as an available target curve to be confident in the translation of your productions across different systems. Next, Multichannel offers a Dolby Atmos target curve. Dolby Atmos presents a specific target curve that your system should be tuned to according to their guideline documentation to best match the playback systems that feature Dolby Atmos. The official documentation provides a very slightly different curve in appearance to what is presented in Sonarworks SoundID Multichannel as the calibration measurement method is slightly different. To compensate, SoundID Multichannel Sonarworks calculates the transfer function to make up for the differences to create an exact replica of the calibration.
A third option presented for your target curve is the 'tilt' option. This enables you to slightly bias the response favouring either treble or bass without adjusting the complicated calibration and therefore changing the tonality. This gentle curve is ideal for quickly identifying how your productions sound on speakers that are generally darker or brighter than your mixing room. Last but not least, Sonarworks SoundID Multichannel gives you flexible customisation, welcoming you to design your target curve using the Custom target curve function.
Unique to Sonarworks SoundID Multichannel, there are several ways that you can apply your calibration profile. Once you have measured the calibration profile of your system and chosen your target curve, you can apply this to either selected hardware options or your software.
A first for Sonarworks, SoundID Multichannel offers you to apply your calibration on a select number of hardware converters. Including Avid MTRX Studio, Avid MTRX with SPQ card, DAD MTRX with SPQ card and more. Exporting your calibration profile can then be imported to your hardware and converted to include both parametric EQ and delay settings. At this time, Multichannel calibration profiles can not be loaded system-wide on your computer or workstation, meaning exporting to a hardware profile can be the perfect solution for system-wide changes.
Alternatively, SoundID Reference Multichannel is supported via software integration of up to 16 channels. Ideal for when working on projects within your DAW with discrete channels separated into different speakers, applying the software application offers zero-latency filters with maximum resolution and accuracy of up to 2000 taps per channel.
Supplied with bot ha multichannel DAW plug-in and stereo standalone desktop application, Sonarworks SoundID Multichannel can be loaded in a wide variety of different ways to suit your workflow. Customisation of both standalone application and the plugin is presented with zero-latency, mixed and linear phase filters along with additional DSP controls including mono summing, wet/dry blending and safe headroom parameters. Alongside this, MIDI mapping of several parameters lets you switch between profiles or adjust settings on the fly.