The plugin folds sound placement, room simulation, movement and granular sound design into a single 3D scene.
Audiocube Space drops a full 3D acoustic environment inside your DAW, letting you place and move sounds anywhere in a 360° field rather than across the flat left-to-right of a stereo mix.
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Spatial audio usually means stringing together several plugins and editing automation lane by lane. Space joins together sound placement, room simulation, movement and creative processing into one visual 3D scene. It comes from Audiocube, an independent developer in Bristol run by Noah Feasey-Kemp, and it’s the engine from the company’s standalone 3D studio app, Audiocube Studio, rebuilt to sit inside a conventional DAW.
With Space loaded and linked across several tracks, every source can be positioned from a single 3D view, sharing one movable listening position that keeps perspective consistent across the whole project. Moving that listener around the scene simulates travelling through it, which would otherwise take hours of per-channel automation. Audiocube calls this instance linking.
Acoustics come from a custom reverb engine with 10 room shapes and 12 surface materials, such as concrete, glass, carpet and marble, and you can import your own impulse responses. Distance attenuation, air absorption, occlusion, directivity and Doppler are all modelled in real time, so a dry, close-mic’d source can be given a real sense of distance and space.
Output covers stereo and binaural, with an HRTF process for headphone mixes, standard surround up to 9.1.6, and fully custom speaker layouts, so one session can serve headphones, a surround stage or a multi-speaker install. Movement can be recorded as DAW automation or set going with BPM-synced motion presets, and an onboard harmonic granulator scatters up to 50 grains through the 3D space, with key, chord and scale-linked pitching to keep them musical.
“My goal is to bridge the gap between conventional DAWs and 3D audio technology,” says Feasey-Kemp, who rebuilt the standalone Audiocube engine as a plugin to get it into everyday sessions.
Audiocube Space is out now for Mac and Windows, with a free trial on Audiocube.
