Question

Very pleased with the new Atmos functionality, great work and thanks for also updading the stock plugins to be surround comnpatible !

There's just one thing missing and I appreciate it may be impossible to implement unless Apple agreed to assist.

Apple Spatial audio binaural preview within Studio One, currently this is only possible in Logic.

Answer 1

Apple spatial is currently exclusive to Apple devices/softs  so exclusivity would be jeopardized if Apple licensed it away. But one Hallmark of Apple spatial is lots of reverb. So to approximate that in S1, you can set the binaural render mode to "far" for everything and then set it back to "mid" or whatever when you are finished. You can shift click tracks in the renderer to select all of them, then changing the binaural render mode for one of them will change it for all.

Answer 2

So apparently Apple do provide an API for this. 

There is now a plugin available that covers this function and by all accounts should be exact the same as the Spatial preview within Logic.

Plugin is called - Audiomovers' Binaural Renderer for Apple Music 

Would be great if S1 had this Native, but I'll be definitely looking at for a deal on this one for Black Friday :)

Answer 3

Apple Spatial audio binaural preview within Studio One, currently this is only possible in Logic

Having compared Logic to Studio One I can tell you, that Studio One's binaural export is nearly identical to what Logic delivers, when you set the binaural distance of all channels in S1 to medium. That's needed because Apple ignores the distance parameters in binaural Atmos, but in Apple's Spatial Audio it's nearly as if it would have been set to mid.