Immersive audio specialist Dear Reality has issued updates to its spatialiser, monitoring and mixing plug-ins – dearVR Pro and dearVR Music.
The plug-ins now include the Sennheiser Ambeo Clarity algorithm for binaural productions with less audible frequency coloration, while dearVR Pro and dearVR Monitor now fully support Apple Logic Pro’s multichannel formats and Dolby Atmos workflows.
The company’s Spatial Headphone Compensation (as used in dearVR Mix and dearVR Monitor) additionally features Sennheiser’s top-of-the-range closed-back HD 300 Pro.
By adding the Sennheiser Ambeo Clarity algorithm, Dear Reality enables users to reduce unwanted signal alterations resulting from head-related transfer functions (HRTF). ‘A human voice, for example, is so familiar to us that even slight changes already have a huge impact, while synthesised sounds need stronger binaural filtering to be perceived as coming from the correct direction,’ explains Dear Reality CEO, Christian Sander.
The new Clarity feature in dearVR Pro and dearVR Music lets users define the balance between externalisation and colorisation, depending on the direction and source material. This also facilitates the smooth transfer to regular stereo loudspeaker playback devices. dearVR Pro and dearVR Monitor now fully support Apple Logic Pro’s integrated Dolby Atmos workflow, enabling users to enhance immersive sessions up to 7.1.4.
With dearVR Pro, the binaural, Ambisonics, and multichannel spatialiser, Logic users have a full 360° immersive panner at their fingertips, placing the listener at the centre of sound in 46 virtual acoustic environments for modern professional music production and postproduction.
dearVR Monitor, on the other hand, enables them to monitor all common speaker set-ups via headphones , without the limitations imposed by unreliable room acoustics or missing multichannel speaker setups. dearVR Monitor offers a virtual mix room to produce in 26 multichannel loudspeaker formats.
Dear Reality has also expanded the Spatial Headphone Compensation in dearVR Monitor and dearVR Mix with additional headphone models, including the Sennheiser HD 300 Pro. These two plug-ins now support Sennheiser’s entire professional studio headphone range from the HD 25 to the open-back HD 400 Pro.
The latest versions of Dear Reality’s dearVR Pro and dearVR Music spatialisers as well as dearVR Monitor and dearVR Mix monitoring solutions provide fully native Apple Silicon support.
More: www.dear-reality.com
