dearVR MONITOR Release - virtual reference control room

[Dear Reality]

We are very pleased to present our new plugin dearVR MONITOR, a virtual mix room from Stereo up to 9.1.6.

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dearVR MONITOR enables you to mix anytime, anywhere, and in any common speaker setup from Stereo up to 9.1.6. Start producing immersive audio formats like Dolby ATMOS even today. Experience a personal acoustic reference you can rely on to enjoy mixing with greater confidence and accuracy.

Produce and mix with greater confidence and accuracy, experience a perfect virtual mix room and produce your tracks in any format, anytime and anywhere with dearVR MONITOR. Choose between all common speaker setups from Stereo up to 9.1.6. Don’t limit yourself anymore by poor room acoustics or missing multi-channel speaker setups.

Enjoy mixing with greater ease and accuracy in your favorite DAW with Dear Reality’s outstanding virtual acoustics headphone technology.

Click info.dearvr.com/monitor for more information.

Key Features

• REFERENCE-GRADE MIX ROOM: For Stereo and multi-channel productions
• MULTI-CHANNEL SPEAKER SETUPS: Support of all common loudspeaker setups for immersive audio productions, including height layers like 7.1.4 up to 9.1.6
• IDEAL MIX ROOM MODELS: Choose from 5 ideal mix room models (Mix Room A, Mix Room B, Mix Room Large, Analytic Dry, Analytic Position)
• COMMON LISTENING ENVIRONMENTS: Double-check your mix in 11 typical listening environments (Live Venue, Stadium, Acoustic Venue, Club Large, Club, Car, Van, Cinema, Home Theater, Living Room, Kitchen)
• ADJUSTABLE ACOUSTIC: Easily adjust the acoustic characteristics of your mix room using the AMBIENCE slider
• REDUCED SPECTRAL COLORIZATION: Unrivaled Focus parameter to reduce spectral colorizations including patented Clarity algorithm by Sennheiser AMBEO
• HEAD ROTATION: Support for head tracking
• EASY-TO-USE: Easy-to-use graphic interface showing the selected loudspeaker format

[Benoni]

Looks cool

[Franklyn]

I ask myself how this plug in allows you to hear your music in an ideal reference-quality listening room when it does not correct the frequency spectrum of the used headphone model. So this thing will sound totaly different on different headphones.
Or do I miss something?

[gives]

One thing. You will not be able to do a mixdown from let’s say 7.1.2 to 5.1 with dearVR MONITOR. It will always be a binaural output for your headphones.

In case that is not clear. G

[Dear Reality]

Hi gives,

you're right. DearVR MONITOR is a plugin for headphone monitoring.

You could use dearVR PRO to create a mixdown for a wide variety of output formats including 7.1.2 and 5.1. With MONITOR you can listen to these mixdowns on your headphones!
You can find PRO here: https://www.dearvr.com/products/dearvr-pro


Cheers,
Peter

[Dear Reality]

Originally Posted by Franklyn

I ask myself how this plug in allows you to hear your music in an ideal reference-quality listening room when it does not correct the frequency spectrum of the used headphone model. So this thing will sound totaly different on different headphones.
Or do I miss something?

Hi Franklyn,

The current market release version of dearVR Monitor is indeed not featuring any headphone compensation. Of course, a proper headphone compensation can be a useful tool while working with headphones.
We built in the focus knob, to control the coloration that is applied by the plugin. This lets you preserve the characteristics of your favorite headphones while still being able to monitor multichannel formats and different listening scenarios.
We cannot provide road map details, but of course, we do consider HPC as an important feature.

A lot of people already own 3d party headphone compensation software that can be placed AFTER dearVR Monitor. In this case, it is important to keep in mind that certain compensation tools change the spectral energy of your mix, due to their internal target curves (which are not matching a flat response).

Best,
Peter