Lewitt has released Space Replicator, a plug-in that reckons to capture real acoustic spaces and turn them into virtual acoustic spaces with extremely high resolution, rendering them on headphones using a personalised binaural profile.
Users can create your personal binaural profile directly in the plug-in using an algorithm-based training process that takes around ten minutes to complete. For this to work with the headphones, there are 600-plus in-ear and over-ear headphone profiles available to compensate for a specific model’s frequency response to make the transparent.
‘To create better mixes you can trust, you need a reliable acoustic environment,’ the company says. ‘When you don’t have access to a professionally treated space, this plug-in is the perfect solution – Space Replicator offers a great variety of professional mixing and mastering rooms. Ideal for anything from critical listening to extra-long mixing sessions, always with the natural stereo field of high-end loudspeaker systems.’
After finding a favorite studio, Lewitt recommends users ‘spend time there and getting used to develop familiarity with its unique characteristics as you would in a real one’.
‘When your mix is ready, you can check how it translates where and how it will be played. The car mix check has a long tradition to reveal flaws in the low-end of your mix. But here, you can save time and gas and just load Space Replicator instead. If you are an electronic music producer, you can bring your track to Watergate, a legendary Berlin club, and ensure it delivers on the dancefloor and the DJ booth, with and without crowd. And since someone will play your mix on a smartphone and a laptop for sure, you can make sure it sounds great there, too.’
Included virtual spaces:
- Lewitt studio A: Custom made speaker system.
- Lewitt studio B: Nearfield loudspeakers.
- Vienna Synchron Stage Control A: Farfield and midfield speakers.
- Vienna Synchron Stage Control B: Midfield speakers.
- White Sea Studio: LennArt Audio Quasar system.
- Watergate club: PA/DJ booth (with and w/o crowd).
- Car/: Car stereo with four seating positions.
- Kitchen: Tablet/Bluetooth speakers.
- Living room: Different smartphone/laptop models.
- TV room: TV loudspeaker/soundbar.
- Five popular in-ear and over-ear consumer headphones
- Transparent: Listening study simulation of ideal headphone frequency response.
Space Replicator is offered in VST3 (Win, Mac), AAX (Win, Mac) and AU (Mac) plug-in formats. System requirements: Windows 10 and newer, macOS (Intel and Apple silicon) tested from macOS 12 upwards.
Space Replicator is available for US$99/€99/£89.
