3-D Binaural Spatializer

The 3-D Binaural Spatializer is a VST plugin for Windows and Mac that gives the listener the illusion that the sound sources are actually in 3-dimensional space. It uses head related transfer functions to process the audio, allowing the user to choose an angle in the horizontal plane between 0° and 360°. There are instructions and other info in the README file. Also, this effect only works with headphones.

Note: The beta version of Audacity is supposed to support VST plugins, but I’ve been having trouble getting this to work properly inside Audacity. It should work fine in most other DAWs.

Sound samples:

Use headphones!

Spatializer Vst Plugins

Heres a concrete piece I wrote and mixed using this plugin:

Here’s some cardboard box sounds I ran through the plugin:

Oculus Spatializer Vst Plugin

You can use envelopes to control the angle, just like with volume or panning.

The Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation is a software suite for designing spatial audio for 360 video and cinematic VR. It includes plugins for popular audio workstations, a time synchronized 360 video player and utilities to help design and publish spatial audio in a variety of formats. Reviews (0) Spatializer is a binaural spatialization plugin. It processes the sound to give the feeling that it comes from a particular direction. It sets the position of the sound source in space and uses an HRTF (head-related transfer function) to compute the result by convolution.

(these plugins were released in 2011 when I was a student, and haven’t been updated since then)