Auro Headphone Plug-In User Guide
Auro Headphone Plug-In User Guide
Auro Headphone Plug-In User Guide
July 12 2018
Auro Technologies NV
Kievitstraat 42
B-2400 Mol
Belgium
Phone: +32 14 31 43 43
Information: info@auro-technologies.com
Technical support: support@auro-technologies.com
Web: www.auro-technologies.com
Note that the Auro Panner Plug-in is no longer included because the Wwise default panner will handle all
of the same functions, effectively rendering the plug-in a redundant tool within Wwise. We recommend
using the Auro Headphones plug-in and the Wwise default panner as the best Spatial Audio chain.
When the Auro Headphone Plug-in is active, it will output the generated binaural audio signal on the
Left and Right channels, and it will mute all remaining output channels.
Figure 2.3: Insert Auro Mixer Plug-in on newly created Audio Bus
Figure 2.5: Route a Sound Object to the newly created Audio Bus
ER level
Gain of early reflections. Range: [-inf , 12.0 dB]
LFE level
Gain applied to the incoming LFE channel before sending it to both ears. Range: [-inf , 12.0 dB]
Bypass offset
Applies a gain offset to the global output when the Bypass option in the Auro Headphone Plug-in user
interface is enabled. Allows balancing the processed and bypassed gains, it helps with comparing
renderings without energy gap. Range: [-inf , 12.0 dB]
Speaker dist.
Distance of the speaker sources, in meters. Each input channel is mapped into a virtual speaker inside
the virtual room. This setting controls their distance to the listener. Range: [1.00 m, 3.00 m]
Left Right Bottom Top Front Back
Distance to the respective walls, in meters. Influences the delay-times for the early reflections. All 6
walls can be positioned relatively to the listening position. To prevent unwanted room modal response,
try to use unrelated (mutually prime) and asymmetrical values for the walls distances. Range: [1.00 m,
10.00 m]
If the wall distance for a particular wall is smaller than the speaker distance, the algorithm will not
generate early reflections for that particular wall.
The purpose of the plug-in is to simulate binaural hearing for a multi-channel input, thus for mono (1.0)
configuration of the host bus the plug-in will be in bypass.
To prevent an unwanted room modal response (i.e. unpleasant resonances), try to use unrelated
(mutually prime) and asymmetrical values for the wall distances.
Tom Todia posted an Audiokinetic Blog related to using Auro Headphone in the context of Wwise.