Lifelike Speaker-style Sound Design
From Foley work and sound design to soundtracking and radio-ready production, Audio Ease developed Speakerphone 3 as an all-encompassing suite of speaker-style sonic contouring that places premiums on realism, dimensionality, and creativity. Its expansive range of speaker IRs (impulse responses), microphones, Altiverb spaces, and DSP modules is supplemented by a wealth of modulation capabilities, dynamics tools, built-in effects, and over 5GB of environmental ambience. Speaker covers and guitar cabinets intersect with outdoor arenas and club interiors, blending with a gamut of walkie-talkie, transistor radio, megaphone, and robotic voice effects, allowing you to craft lifelike environments and surreal spaces with impeccable accuracy and unbounded versatility. Speakerphone 3 is your one-stop sound-shaping shop for comprehensive, exploratory speaker design that has Sweetwater’s studio pros enamored by its flexibility, intuitive interfacing, and capacity to transport listeners to practically any environment, from the mundane and ordinary to the magical and impossible. Make your sound design and storytelling stand out with unmatched immersion.
Note: Using an iLok key is optional, but Speakerphone 3 requires iLok 2 or newer, if applicable.
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Give your sounds and vocals immersive depth and dimension
While Audio Ease spared no effort in creating a stylistically diverse set of more than 500 presets, Speakerphone 3 lets you get hands-on with granular sound-design capabilities and build signal chains one piece at a time, endowing each element with setting-specific parameters to adjust, automate, or modulate. It all starts with the microphone. In Speakerphone 3, Audio Ease includes 23 mic options, painstakingly capturing IRs that faithfully re-create the most-nuanced attributes of each mic. But where do you go from there? The speaker.
Selecting from one of 400 included speaker IRs to build (un)real spaces is a delightfully intuitive experience, spanning radios, PA systems, TV sets, bullhorns, answering machines, phones, guitar amps, toy cameras, mini synths, and so many more.
Where your sound virtually lives is determined by the Room module. Audio Ease used its cutting-edge Altiverb technology to craft IRs from more than 50 interior and exterior spaces, many of which include spring and plate reverbs and real-life spaces that transcend the usual “room” and “hall” styles. Subway stations and stadiums are supplemented by office back rooms and fighter-jet cockpits, with imaginative scenarios including a party at the neighbor’s house, mountaineering base camps, or the empty streets of an otherwise-populated city.
As diverse as these combinations are by themselves, Audio Ease included a Cover module. Over 100 IR options emulate how physical objects interact with sound sources. Everyday ideas of obstructing sound include car trunks, blankets, and suitcases, but abstract disruptions, like glass bottles, and further hampering are what elevate Speakerphone 3 to levels of seriously creative potential. How would a cell phone mic on a toy synth speaker inside a MIG fighter-jet cockpit that’s hampered by a glass cup sound? There’s only one way to find out, and we haven’t even talked about the DSP.
Dynamic DSP possibilities, all the time
Dynamics tools accommodating stereo, mono, pre-effects, and post-effects signal-chain configurations already explode the creative potential of Speakerphone 3, but 12 onboard DSP modules give you an always-available array of further speaker sculpting. Distortions, equalizers, compressors, gates, and multiple filters let you refine the harmonic and timbral content of your signal, while LFOs and Mod effects introduce myriad shades of tremolo, chorus, vibrato, and envelop-following modulation. Dedicated Leslie and Gramophone modules simulate the output of their namesake styles, wobbling, warbling, crackling, and curving throughout the stereo soundstage, augmented by the stereo and tempo-syncable Delay. With the Radio Tuning module, a dual-axis plane of simulated radio-receiver dialing can be modulated, automated, or set in place to add distortion and noise. The Telecom module emulates cell phone codecs across the decades, from low-bit grit and whirling whispers to robotic sonics and vocal-synth voices.
Audio Ease Speakerphone 3 Features:
- State-of-the-art IR technology supplies a multidimensional suite of speaker-style sound design
- 500 broadcast-ready presets with near-endless customization
- 400 speaker IRs span a diverse range of classic, contemporary, novel, and imaginative options
- 23 mics are painstakingly captured to cover numerous recording configurations with exceptional detail and frequency-response behavior
- 106 Covers faithfully simulate the sound-obfuscation effect of numerous everyday and unexpected options, including a Tune parameter that attenuates material-resonance faculties
- 53 Room options include an exceptionally diverse set of indoor and outdoor spaces, meticulously profiled using Audio Ease’s Altiverb technologies
- 5GB of audio samples span effects, ambience, Foley-style sounds, and more, accessed from a dedicated, customizable Samplebay module
- 12 DSP modules provide always-available sound-shaping tools
- Extensive automation and modulation tools allow you to draft evolving and undulating sounds that seamlessly operate and activate without clicks or disruption
