3DPanner Studio Plug-In from Spin Audio
 February 26, 2001 3DPanner Studio is an audio plugin available in VST and DX formats that allows to enhance your host application
with a powerful 3D Positional Audio engine, so that you will be able to place your audio tracks in a 3D space around
your head and arrange them within a single window.
The product incorporates expandable and flexible 3D Positional Audio engine based on HRTFs technique that
supports multiple HRTF sets with distance zones for future expansion, HRTF subsets for performance tuning,
distance simulation and two near field effects. The engine uses Intel's NSP library that provides highly optimized
signal processing code that takes advantage of using SIMD extensions of PIII and P4 processors making
3DPanner Studio being very mean on cpu usage.
3DPanner Studio is shipped with a default 4MB HRTF Set based on data provided by CIAIR, Nagoya University,
Japan. An alternative HRTF Set based on KEMAR data can be downloaded from SpinAudio web site and installed in
addition to the default set. All the installed HRTF sets can be used also in other future SpinAudio products from 3D
Positional Audio series.
The product interface is especially designed for positioning of multiple tracks in 3D space: Every plugin insert on a
track in a host application is displayed in a big Pad window as an icon with a label. You can choose the icon from 32
built-in types, set different label color and change label text. It's also possible to select a custom font for labels and
use alternative one-byte character sets so that you can use your native language for naming icons.
Positions and icon properties of all plugin inserts can be saved in a file and then loaded back making it easy to
compare different arrangements in your project mix.
To ease working with many track icons 3DPanner studio supports View Sets. With them you can group your tracks
in sets and switch them to be shown or hidden. This is very helpful when you have some groups of tracks of one type
and would like to arrange them one by one.
3D positioning in 3DPanner Studio is easy. You can switch between two positioning planes: horizontal plane where
you place icons along left/right and front/back axis's and elevation plane where vertical icon position corresponds to
elevation angle that can range from -90 (full beneath) to +90 (full above the head). Besides that in horizontal plane
mode you can also switch between three distance fields: Far- Mid- and Near fields.
To provide maximum working convenience all product functions are accessible through keyboard shortcuts.
Product key features:
- Highly optimized and expandable 3D Positional Audio engine that supports multiple installable HRTF
Sets, HRTF subsets, distance simulation and two near field effects
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Single window for arranging all plugin inserts
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Arrangements. Saving and loading 3D arrangement in a file
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View Sets to ease working with different track insert groups
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Alternative character sets support for naming tracks in a native language
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Skin support for custom graphic design
Specification:
- Sample rates supported: up to 96Khz
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Internal processing precision: 32-bit floating point
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True stereo-in/stereo-out signal processing
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Maximum plugin inserts number: 32
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3D Positional Technique: HRTF based. Maximum hrtf length supported: 512 samples
System Requirements:
Platform: Intel Pentium, and compatible CPUs
Operating Systems: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000
Minimal Configuration:
Pentium 100, 32 Mb of RAM, Video adapter that supports running in high color mode. 6Mb of free hard disk space.
3DPanner Studio is available now for PC platform only, Mac version is planned to be available later this yea For more information, visit their web site at www.spinaudio.com. | 
