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VIRTUOSO Lite – Standalone App

VIRTUOSO Lite is a streamlined edition of its flagship Virtuoso binaural monitoring tool, praised by many top sound engineers for its accurate and natural-sounding speaker and room virtualisation. Designed to make high-quality immersive monitoring more accessible, Virtuoso Lite delivers essential features for accurate binaural rendering while maintaining the core excellence of APL’s technology.

Also available:
VIRTUOSO Lite Plugins
VIRTUOSO Flagship versions

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    A 14-day free trial of Virtuoso Lite is available for download. You will need an iLok account to activate the trial. Download links for both MacOS and Windows versions will be sent to your email. Please note that delivery may take between a few minutes and up to 20 minutes, depending on your email server. If you haven’t received it after that time, please check your spam folder.

    Includes macOS and Windows installers.

    Educational Discount Programme

    Special discounts are available for students and faculty. See details here.

    KEY BENEFITS:

    • Realistic virtual listening rooms, which can be customised acoustically for your own or other rooms.
    • Effective externalisation and accurate localisation of virtual loudspeakers – essential for making correct mix decisions on headphones.
    • Excellent tonal naturalness – just like listening to premium loudspeakers in real life.
    • Highly accurate translation to real loudspeakers.
    • Less headphone listening fatigue.

    MAIN FEATURES:

    • Standalone app.
    • 18 loudspeaker configurations including all essential audio formats: Stereo, ITU-R 5.1/7.1 and Dolby Atmos 7.1.4/9.1.6.
    • Seven presets of scientifically tuned virtual rooms.
    • Built-in HRTFs.
    • Head tracking (OSC and manual).
    • Headphone compensation EQ (100 models + Custom filter .txt file loading).
    • Loudspeaker on-axis response modelling EQ (11 models).
    • WAV/ADM file playback.

    Experts say

    WAV/ADM Player

    The VIRTUOSO Lite standalone app can decode and play stereo or multichannel re-render WAV files, as well as ADM Dolby Atmos master WAV files, allowing you to virtually hear how your mix sounds over different loudspeaker setups and in various rooms. This feature also ensures your mix translates accurately during the QC process—simply share your ADM master file with clients or colleagues who have VIRTUOSO, so they can experience how your mix sounds in your studio or in different environments.

    Virtual loudspeaker setups for binaural listening

    VIRTUOSO Lite supports all essential loudspeaker configurations, including Stereo, ITU-R 5.1/7.1 and Dolby Atmos 7.1.4/9.1.6 configurations. VIRTUOSO Lite lets you precisely localise sound images around you, as if they’re being reproduced by real loudspeakers positioned at a distance, rather than inside your head. Even without an extensive speaker setup, you can embark on your immersive audio journey with just a pair of headphones and VIRTUOSO Lite.

    Virtual room presets

    VIRTUOSO Lite offers seven virtual listening room presets, scientifically designed using ASPEN™’s 3D geometric acoustic simulation and finely tuned by expert sound engineers. These rooms provide a highly realistic and natural sound experience without introducing any tonal coloration. In the VIRTUOSO environments, you can trust that what you’re hearing on headphones will translate accurately to real loudspeakers in similar settings, thanks to VIRTUOSO’s precise imaging. If you face acoustic challenges in your studio, simply transport yourself into APL’s ITU-R BS.1116-compliant reference listening room in VIRTUOSO Lite, making critical mix decisions easier and more confidently.

    Built-in HRTFs and Head Tracking

    VIRTUOSO Lite provides five carefully selected and finely tuned built-in HRTFs, along with smooth, low-latency head tracking for ultimate spatial realism. It supports four formats: APL, Audeze (for Maxwell), IEM, and Nxosc (for Waves NX).

    Headphone compensation (HPC) EQ and loudspeaker (SPK) EQ

    For the most accurate presentation of head-related transfer function (HRTF) in binaural audio rendering, it is often necessary to make the frequency response of the headphones perceptually flat. To achieve this, VIRTUOSO Lite currently provides HPC EQ filters for 100 popular headphone models and allows you to load a custom headphone EQ .wav file (e.g., from the popular AutoEQ library). Additionally, SPK EQ filters model the on-axis frequency responses of 11 popular loudspeaker models. These EQs enable you to select virtual loudspeakers with different spectral balances for monitoring purposes and can also be used to add a unique tonal color to your binaural mix. More headphone and loudspeaker EQs will be added in future updates.

    Examples of immersive and stereo recordings binauralised using VIRTUOSO

      Please use headphones.

    Below is a Samply playlist of Virtuoso binaural samples. For streaming quality, you can select between 48kHz/24bits Lossless (recommended) and Adaptive in the Audio Controls at the bottom of the player, depending on your internet bandwidth.

    See the credits and technical details of these tracks.

    Authorisation Method

    PACE iLok (dongle gen. 2 or 3 or machine-base)

    Formats

    Standalone macOS Application
    Standalone Windows Application

    Operating Systems

    Apple macOS Mojave 10.14.1 through Sequoia 15.3.1

    Microsoft Windows 10 and 11

    Mac Requirements

    Apple M1, M2 and M3

    Intel 64-bit CPU with SSE3 (minimum Core i5 at 2 GHz)
    – We recommend using a Mac from at least 2015. Core 2 Duo is not supported.

    PC Requirements

    Intel 64-bit or compatible CPU with SSE3 instruction set (minimum Core i5 at 2 GHz)
    – We recommend using a PC from at least 2016.

    Memory

    4 GB minimum, 8 GB recommended.

    DAW

    We tested on the following DAWS:
    Pro Tools 2023.3
    Reaper 7
    Logic Pro 10.7
    Nuendo 12
    Cubase 12
    Studio One 6
    Pyramix 14
    Sequoia Pro 16
    Samplitude Pro X7
    Audition CC
    Ableton Live 12

    * JRiver is currently not supported.

    Sample Rates

    44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192 kHz

    VIRTUOSO V2 New Feature Demo

    Sollevante – Dolby Atmos mix binauralised using VIRTUOSO v2

    Quick Demonstration of APL VIRTUOSO

    Using VIRTUOSO with Dolby Atmos “Internal” Renderer in Pro Tools

    This video demonstrates how to use APL VIRTUOSO to binaurally monitor 7.1.4 output from Dolby Atmos Internal Renderer in Pro Tools. Use headphones for a binaural demo at the end.

    Using VIRTUOSO with Dolby Atmos External Renderer

    This video demonstrates how to use APL VIRTUOSO to binaurally monitor 7.1.4 output from Dolby Atmos External Renderer. Use headphones for a binaural demo at the end.

    Head-Tracked Binaural Atmos 9.1.6 in VR with VIRTUOSO

    Sam Hocking explores Atmos 9.1.6 playback using VIRTUOSO alongside the Supperware headtracker within a VR desktop setup. Achieving an ambiance level that matches the virtual cinema acoustics delivers a highly realistic and impactful externalisation.

    Next-Level Binaural Rendering: Virtuoso Received an Update!

    Michael G Wagner introduces new features of Virtuoso v1.1.0 and demonstrates Dolby Atmos Renderer (7.1.4) + VIRTUOSO (binaural) + Bridgehead (Headtracking) on Windows via Dante VIA (ASIO).

    Bob Katz’s demonstration of VIRTUOSO

    The legendary mastering engineer and author Bob Katz gave a talk and demo on Binaural Translation of Immersive Music using Virtuoso on February 7th, 2023, as part of AES San Francisco’s Audio Education Series.

    Headtracked binaural with VIRTUOSO

    Dr Michael G Wagner of Drexel University thinks that VIRTUOSO and Bridgehead headtracker are a killer combination for delivering a truly immersive binaural listening experience.

    Reviews from Experts

    Testimonials from Experts

    User Manual

    The user manual can be accessed by clicking the i button in the top right corner of the plugin/app.

    Or click here to download the user manual.

    Loudspeaker Layouts

    The list of loudspeaker layouts currently supported by Virtuoso can be accessed by clicking the i button in the top right corner of the plugin/app.

    Or click here to download the list of loudspeaker layouts.

    FAQs

    Click here to find answers to frequently asked questions.

    Contact Us

    If you have any questions, please email us at support@apl-hud.com

    If you found a bug, please report it here.