Ultimate and Essential licenses

SPAT Revolution comes in different flavors: an Essential and an Ultimate licenses. Both share the same audio engine and powerful 3D audio capabilities.

The Essential license aims to be a limited version of Ultimate: the same workflow but limited capacities at a reduced price.

Ultimate and Essential: what’s common?

The SPAT Revolution software supports the same installer (binary) for both license options and has the common features listed below:

  • An easy-to-understand setup page, showing a clear representation of the signal path.
  • A powerful mixing environment, using a 3D view and perceptive factor parameters.
  • An oriented-object audio engine allowing the user to render either channel-based, Higher Order Ambisonic (HOA), or binaural audio streams.
  • Support for mono, stereo, and multichannel inputs streams.
  • A flexible speaker array editor allowing going beyond the usual standards.
  • A snapshot system to easily recall scenes on the fly.
  • An audio pipe technology allowing receiving and sending audio from all the major DAW to and from SPAT Revolution.
  • An exhaustive list of OSC commands to allow a deep remote control of SPAT Revolution.

Ultimate and Essential: differences

The main limitations of the Essential license are:

  • The number of cumulated input channels is limited to 32.
  • The number of cumulated output channels is limited to 18.
  • The number of rooms is limited to 1: no simultaneous rendering.
  • HOA order is limited to 3rd order.
  • Tracking data cannot be modified.
  • RTTrp is not allowed.

Complete specification is available here.

Ultimate and Essential sessions compatibility

When creating or opening a session that contains elements non-compatible with the Essential license, those elements are simply deactivated (not processed). Thus, an Ultimate session can be opened with an Essential license and vice-versa. See [Modules (de)activation and sessions compatibility -@module-de-activation].

Check Essential compatibility

In the top bar menu, click on File > Check Essential Compatibility to check if the current session is compatible with the SPAT Essential restrictions.

If the session is not compatible, it can be opened with an Essential license, the restrictions due to license limitations will automatically deactivate the non-authorized objects.

Note

If a session contains elements non-compatible with an Essential license, they can be manually deactivated for the session to fit the Essential license restrictions. If all the non-authorized elements are inactive, the session is considered as compatible with Essential license.

See Modules (de)activation Session compatibility and modules (de)activation for more information about automatic and manual (de)activation.

Essential compatibility mode in Ultimate

The Ultimate license offers an Essential Compatibility Mode, for switching between Essential and Ultimate behaviors without any change in your license authorization.