• The SPAT Send and Return plugins use LAP automation when the « Enable » of the plugin is activated, i.e. when the audio is sent to SPAT Revolution via the plugin.
• When the LAP is deactivated, i.e. the “Enable” button is off, OSC is used to control the objects.
• OSC is used always used for the SPAT Room plugins.

Automation reading with Local Audio Path

• Ensure your DAW and the wanted track automation status are set to “Read” or “Touch”.
• On the « Item» page on SPAT Revolution, check if the “Automation” field of the wanted source is enabled. This parameter allows disabling the incoming automation input.
• If the automation does not work, on the SPAT plugin, please check if the field « Publish changes in main thread » is set according to the following wanted status for your DAW:
  • ON: Ableton Live, ProTools, Steinberg products (Cubase, Nuendo, Wavelab), StudioOne
  • OFF: all others
• Finally, check if the source index in SPAT Revolution and the plugin source index are the same. It can sometimes, according to the DAW, causes issues.

If it doesn’t work, please contact us.

Automation reading with OSC

• Make sure the OSC is configured on both SPAT Revolution and SPAT plugin sides, i.e. the address IP and the port number are set. Use 127.0.0.1 if DAW and SPAT Revolution are on the same machine. 
• On SPAT Revolution, make sure OSC Enable is checked.
• To check if SPAT Revolution receives the OSC data sent by the plugin, enable the “Command log” on the OSC preferences panel, then open the terminal (menu Help, or F7). The OSC input message will be shown in it. If no OSC input message is displayed, there has been an error configuring the address and port.
• Make sure the plugin source index and the source remote index in SPAT are the same. On SPAT Revolution side, the remote index is located on the Item page.
• On the « Item» page of SPAT Revolution, make sure « Remote » is on for the wanted sources.

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To prevent some playbacks errors and glitches, Nuendo introduces the “ASIO-Guard” (more details about it in this dedicated article). This will allow to use the block size given to Nuendo for the “time-critical” operation (like track with monitoring option activated), but a larger one for the other. This buffer depends on the ASIO-guard level (typically, 256 for “low”, 512 for “normal” and 1024 for high in 48kHz).

Be sure to deactivate this ASIO-guard to use the same block size for all tracks, and for the block size to match the driver one.

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How To merge a previous Send / Return with a duplicate one?

• Select all local audio path Send/Return objects in red (those that are saved in the SPAT project and connected to the Room).
  
• Click on the Convert To Hardware IO button, in the panel to the right.

 Now the local audio path send/return objects are converted to hardware inputs instead.

Merge one Hardware IO with the corresponding active Send/Return instance:

• Select one of the recently converted hardware IO objects and also select the corresponding local audio path instance.
  
• Click on Convert Hardware To Send/Return.

This will merge the two items into a single object, which is connected both to the DAW and to the Room.

After the conversion is ready, don’t forget to save a new copy of the SPAT project. One explicit SPAT project for each DAW project is a good practice to avoid mixing things up.

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Ableton Live Plugin Configure Mode

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1. Enter Configure Mode by pressing the Configure button in the device’s header.

2. Activate Local Audio Path in the SPAT Plugin.

3. When working with OSC automation, with SPAT and Live are running on separate machines, the Local Audio Path option is not used and can be disabled.

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To facilitate this and to get started easily, we have created sessions and templates for a variety of DAWs and SPAT Revolution. Please be sure to read the Ableton Live part on SPAT Revolution documentation, or to follow the Youtube video, to ensure synchronization between the two software.

Ableton Live

Project Sessions and Templates downloads

Template used in the video tutorial

• Ableton Live Tutorial Template Dolby Atmos 7.1.4 and binaural template.

Other Templates

• Binaural Template

Ableton Live Tools for SPAT Revolution

What are the Ableton Live Tools for SPAT Revolution?

The Ableton Live Tools are a set of custom-built Ableton Live Devices, created to increase significantly the compatibility between the DAW and SPAT Revolution. It can be downloaded via the FLUX:: Center.

• FLUX:: Center Installation for Ableton Live Tools for SPAT Revolution installation.
• Ableton Live Tools Documentation – Documentation about the Ableton Live Tools for SPAT Revolution.

Resources for more information and troubleshooting

• Ableton Live (SPAT Revolution User Guide)
• SPAT Send and Return DAW Troubleshooting (SPAT Revolution User Guide)
• How to set up SPAT Revolution with Ableton Live (YouTube Tutorial)
• Live webinar on Ableton Live Tools for SPAT Revolution (YouTube Live webinar)

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Local Audio Path Sync Issues

Logic Specifics

Logic will stop processing a track if it can’t find any sound on its input, and here you will not receive any sound sent back by SPAT unless you route any audio to this track.

The way to go with Logic is to route the dry signal from the Send track to an aux bus, and then insert the Return plugin on this aux bus as well. Doing it this way, Logic will detect audio at the aux bus input, and everything will work as intended. 

When enabling the Override option in the Return plugin (to bypass the dry signal) and then enabling the Thru option in the Send plugin, the dry signal is sent back to the Return tracks. 

Here is a basic Logic Pro X project with 8 audio Send tracks and 2 Stereo Return tracks. 

Download Logic Pro X Project

 Please note the use of a ‘Dummy’ bus track to make the audio tracks easier to setup. Just route your audio tracks to Bus 1 and insert a  Send plugin with the Local Audio Path option enabled. 

This ‘Dummy’ bus track has 2 aux sends (pre-fader) routing the signal to both the Return tracks. 

Now you can add an audio file to one of the Send tracks, and connect the input and outputs objects in SPAT Revolution.

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To facilitate this and to get started easily, we have created sessions and templates for a variety of DAWs and SPAT Revolution.

Merging Technologies Pyramix

Project Sessions and Templates downloads

Template used in the video tutorial

• Merging Pyramix Tutorial Template Binaural, 5.1 and NHK 22.2 output formats.

Other Templates

• Basic music PMX Stereo, 5.1, Atmos 5.1.4  output formats with Binaural monitoring.
  
• Advanced multi-format PMX Atmos 7.1.2, NHK 22.2 and multiple binaural output formats.
  
• Ambisonic HOA mixing PMX HOA in 3rd order and binaural monitoring output formats.

Resources for more information and troubleshooting

• SPAT Send and Return DAW Troubleshooting (SPAT Revolution User Guide)
• How to set up SPAT Revolution with Pyramix (YouTube Tutorial)

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To facilitate this and to get started easily, we have created sessions and templates for a variety of DAWs and SPAT Revolution.

Steinberg Nuendo

Project Sessions and Templates downloads

Template used in the video tutorial

• Steinberg Nuendo Tutorial Template Binaural, Atmos 5.1.4, NHK 22.2 with binaural monitoring

Other templates

• Basic music NPR Stereo, 5.1, Atmos 5.1.4  output formats with Binaural monitoring.
  
• Advanced multi-format NPR Atmos 7.1.2, NHK 22.2 and multiple binaural output formats.
  
• Ambisonic HOA mixing NPR HOA in 3rd order and binaural monitoring output formats.

Resources for more information and troubleshooting

• SPAT Send and Return DAW Troubleshooting (SPAT Revolution User Guide)
• How to set up SPAT Revolution with Nuendo (YouTube Tutorial)

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To facilitate this and to get started easily, we have created sessions and templates for a variety of DAWs and SPAT Revolution.

AVID Pro Tools

Project Sessions and Templates downloads

Note: For Avid HDX users. SPAT plugins are available in native versions only. These do work properly in an HDX environment.

Template used in the video tutorial

• AVID Pro Tools Tutorial Template Binaural 5.1 and 7.1.2 output formats

Other templates

• Basic music PTX Stereo, 5.1, Atmos 5.1.4  output formats with Binaural monitoring
• Advanced multi-format PTX Atmos 7.1.2, NHK 22.2, and multiple binaural output formats
• Ambisonic HOA mixing PTX HOA 3rd order and  binaural monitoring output formats

Resources for more information and troubleshooting

• AVID Pro Tools (SPAT Revolution User Guide)
• SPAT Send and Return DAW Troubleshooting (SPAT Revolution User Guide)
• How to set up SPAT Revolution with Pro Tools (YouTube Tutorial)

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To facilitate this and to get started easily, we have created sessions and templates for a variety of DAWs and SPAT Revolution.

Cockos Reaper

Project Sessions and Templates downloads

Template used in the video tutorial

• Reaper Tutorial Template Binaural, 5.1 and NHK 22.2 output formats.

Other Templates

• Basic music Template Stereo, 5.1, Atmos 5.1.4 output formats with Binaural monitoring.
  
• Advanced multi-format Template Atmos 7.1.2, NHK 22.2 and multiple binaural output formats.
  
• Ambisonic HOA mixing HOA 3rd order and binaural monitoring output formats.

ReaVolution for SPAT Revolution

What is ReaVolution?

ReaVolution is an attempt to provide customization to Reaper standard configuration in order to simplify its integration to Spat Revolution and provide a complete simple immersive audio creation package.

• GitHub Download – FLUX:: ReaVolution Scripts for SPAT Revolution integration with Cockos Reaper.
• FLUX:: Center Installation – FLUX:: ReaVolution extension package for SPAT Revolution integration with Cockos Reaper.
• FLUX:: ReaVolution Documentation – Documentation about FLUX:: ReaVolution for Reaper.

Resources for more information and troubleshooting

• Cockos Reaper (SPAT Revolution User Guide)
• SPAT Send and Return DAW Troubleshooting (SPAT Revolution User Guide)
• How to set up SPAT Revolution with Reaper (YouTube Tutorial)

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