Spatial Audio Designer
New Audio Technology
The Spatial Audio Designer (SAD) is a commercial plug-in suite for mixing and monitoring of 2D surround and 3D immersive audio formats (5.1 through 22.2, Dolby Atmos, Auro-3D, MPEG-H, IMAX 3D, DTS:X) in any DAW. It uses a virtual bus system independent of the host's channel limits and includes a Headphone Surround 3D speaker virtualisation for binaural monitoring, used in film, music, game audio, planetariums, and dome-projection contexts.
History & Background
Developed by New Audio Technology GmbH (NAT), Hamburg. The product line includes the SAD plug-in (Producer / Producer Plus / In-One editions) for DAW-based work, the Spatial Audio Designer Processor (SAD-P) for real-time installations, and the Spatial Sound Card (SSC) standalone application. Used in planetariums in Bochum, Mannheim and Hamburg, the Experimenta Science Dome Heilbronn, and at NYU among other institutions.