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Tracing its roots to my work in surround-sound starting around 2003, SoundSquares is the latest iteration on my take of how to handle positioning audio around sound-systems that use a significant number of speakers.

download : here (and unzip to your plugins folder) - 0423 is the latest-and-greatest-version.

Based initially on the idea that the closer a sound is to a speaker, the louder it should be in that speaker, this VST plugin (32-bit, Windows only) extends the idea of mixing to stereo (and well beyond consumer formats like 5.1) to a system that allows for the visual mapping of an arbitrary number of loudspeakers (upto 64 speakers in total).

Having paused development in 2015, I recently revisited this plugin due to having installed a 24.2 sound system at x-church in the uk ... and the plug is now in much better shape than ever before, offering some very quick and intuitive ways to manage the creation of audio-works on such systems.

Amongst the hundreds of recent improvements made to the system between Oct '21 and April '23, the following might be considered headlines :

• upto 64 inputs and 64 outputs in upto 8 individual roms and 16 groups
• Intuitive and customisable hardware accelerated openGL interface
• Scalar, SSE, AVX, and AVX2 DSP parallel mixing engines
• Simultaneous Proximity, Cabled, and Matrix mixing
• Delay, EQ, and Dynamics on every Input and Output
• Pre-and-post-stage mixers for flexible subbing, M/S, and monitoring
• Sidechaining and feedback
• Multichannel Scopes and FFT plots with dynamic envelope visualisations
• Upto 8x oversampling with a variety of decimation filters
• Multiple selection and syndication modes for swift multichannel control
• Human-readable patch system with auto-save and auto-backup
• Multi-threaded scripting engine and commandline
• Serial interface support
• Mix-slicing for choreographing performance
• Dynamic selection mixer
• Built-in tutorial/help system
• >150 key+click commands and shortcuts with multiple methods to do most things
• Includes 50+ page manual and commandline/scripting reference

Main Stage view with windowed interface


Commandline, submixer, and dynamic mixer


Multiple forms of cable-based mixing


Built-in help and tutorials


Flexible feedback and sidechaining


Matrix mixing support


Lots of ways to acheive many common tasks when mixing to large arrays


Suitable for small systems ... and ... BIG systems