INSPIRATA

Features

INSPIRATA™ is the culmination of many years of research and development by practicing acoustic consultants. The goal was to create a shockingly realistic and immersive sound experience that included tools and measurements previously only taken into account by acoustic professionals. From those years of research, data evaluation and testing comes INSPIRATA, the ultimate next-generation reverb workstation.

Details

Vast content library for music and post production

From the pristine sounds of historic spaces, lush reverberant environments of medieval cathedrals to legendary music clubs, INSPIRATA comes with a growing library of real space content. Many are available for the first time in history and many of them have never been experienced in such detail. 50 spaces with over half million IRs ship with INSPIRATA and additional room are available for purchase in perpetual and subscription licenses.

Limitless positioning, smooth movement

Moving virtual sound sources on stage or adjusting the listener position using a sample-based reverb processor was not possible without limitations, until now. In a musical context, now you can move your sound sources and listener to find the optimum recording and mixing locations. Move an instrument slightly backwards on stage for a better balance, or move it closer for more clarity.

In post-production you can use INSPIRATA to automate the movement of your sound sources in every space, from close to far, left to right, as well as any of the acoustical parameters. The sound will instantly follow and sound the same as if you were in the space - only without the environmental noise. This unprecedented feature makes INSPIRATA a true workstation for spatial sound.

Revolutionary spatial controls

In INSPIRATA, we make it possible for you to control parameters that really matter to your ears - you can directly adjust acoustics and the sound of the space instead of the indirect properties that have no change to the sound. Gone is the time when you needed to bother with hall size, wall diffusion or decorrelation only to get different results in each space. You now have full and independent control on how wide your sound source is in the space, how much of the blended sound reaches you, and how much it envelopes around your ears. Spatial room acoustical parameters such as apparent source sound width (ASW) and listener envelopment (LEV) are controllable for the first time directly in any reverberation solution. In addition to these revolutionary controls, you can also adjust the orientation of your speaker feeds in space - facing your stereo or surround setup to any direction. And you can change and automate all of these in real time.

Direct control of sound clarity

In INSPIRATA, reverberation time and sound clarity are adjustable independently, in each space, using a single dedicated control for each. Despite these parameters not being totally independent, INSPIRATA pushes the limits and optimizes the reflections one-by-one to match the desired settings. The basis of the method of changing sound clarity (C80) has been published in an award-winning research paper by our team, and for the first time, it is now available in a real-time implementation.

Controls of the reverberation time

Reverberation time, the mother of all acoustic parameters, is an important aspect of how long the decay lasts. But there is no single reverberation time in a hall, and no single number at a given frequency. In natural spaces, the reverberation time varies slightly location-by-location, and this is fully preserved in INSPIRATA. Not only is the variation reproduced to accuracy, but also the non-exponential nature of the decay of natural spaces to a dynamic range fully covering the theoretical possibilities of sound reproduction.

In real spaces, there is not only a spatial but also a frequency dependency of the reverberation time. Deep tones usually reverberate for a longer time while higher-pitched sounds fade away more promptly – due to, for example, the absorption of the sound of the air in large volumes. The frequency-dependent nature of the reverberation time directly affects the overall tonal footprint of your sound. By using intuitive controls for setting the reverberation time in a frequency-dependent nature or by tilting the controls to be more bass or treble-heavy, you can fine-tune how the space matches your mix with just a few clicks and achieve a level of warmth or brightness otherwise unimaginable.

Surround Support

INSPIRATA supports multi-channel audio by design. With INSPIRATA you can upmix your mono sound source to a wide variety of 3D surround configurations. The upmixing is done by the natural acoustic space itself. You can apply reverberation to surround audio or multi-channel audio for instruments or instrument groups, and deliver in any surround format that you desire with just a few single clicks.

Compatibility

INSPIRATA supports AAX, VST3 and AU formats supporting all major DAWs and runs natively on Intel and Apple Silicon.

Editions

INSPIRATA™ comes in four editions with distinct feature sets to offer solutions for different needs.

INSPIRATA™ Lite Edition is the most simple and easy-to-use version. A stereo reverb workstation which includes a 12 GB room content library of sampled spaces (50 spaces).

INSPIRATA™ Personal Edition is a stereo reverb workstation providing flexibility never before seen in sampled reverbs. It allows the user to truly finetune the parameters and position the sound sources and the listener in the selected space. The size of the default room content library is 210 GB (50 spaces, over 500,000 IRs).

INSPIRATA™ Professional Edition is an immersive reverb workstation with an extended feature set, providing flexibility never before seen in sampled reverbs. Its truly exceptional feature set includes the possibility of finetuning parameters, and positioning the sound sources and the listener. Besides the obvious stereo configuration, it supports a wide variety of multichannel output options from simple surround up to 7.1.2 Dolby Atmos® configuration.

INSPIRATA™ Immersive Edition is an immersive reverb workstation providing flexibility never before seen in sampled reverbs. The Immersive Edition is the flagship version of the INSPIRATA product family supporting surround configurations up to 22.2 and ships with a growing content library created at unprecedented spatial resolution to match even the most demanding applications. INSPIRATA™ Immersive Edition is available upon request.

Feature	Lite	Personal	Professional	Immersive
Input & Output gain
Low cut & High cut filters
Dry - Wet ratio
Direct - Reverberant ratio
Predelay
Width - control of the spatial experience
Clarity control - adjusting early reflection density without altering decay time
Distance of sound source and listener	two discrete positions	continuous adjustment	continuous adjustment	continuous adjustment
DIR, ER, LATE switches - enabling or disabling Direct sound, Early and Late reflections
Rotation of listener perspective
Browser view
Free positioning of the sound sources and the listener
Maximum number of sound sources	2	2	16	48
Routing Matrix - for routing plugin inputs to different sound sources
In-depth Spatial, Gain and Delay Controls
In-depth Control for Early reflections, Late reflections and Envelope effect
Individual control for Spatial and Gain parameters, Early reflections and Envelope effect for each sound source
Adjustable directivity of the virtual microphone
Available surround output options	stereo	stereo	up to 7.1.2	up to 22.2
Sample rate	44.1 kHz, 48 kHz	44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz	44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz,	44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192 kHz, 384 kHz

Licensing

• iLok account and license is required for the operation of INSPIRATA
• Internet connection required for license activation (one-time only) and required when using iLok Cloud
• iLok Smart Key USB device (2nd or 3rd gen.) and iLok Cloud licensing both work with INSPIRATA
• Activation Code issued by Inspired Acoustics upon your purchase to redeem and activate the sample set license via the PACE iLok License Manager software
• INSPIRATA can be activated to physical iLok and iLok Cloud locations, machine activation is not supported

After purchasing, Inspired Acoustics will automatically set up access to download the proper edition of your software, with a unique Activation Code. Enter this Activation Code in iLok License Manager to redeem your license.

System requirements and recommendations

CPU

Inspirata Lite and Personal editions: Intel Core i5 or Apple M1/M2 equivalent, or better.

Inspirata Professional and Immersive editions: Intel Core i7 or Apple M1/M2 or equivalent, or better.

NOTE: AMD Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture (Ryzen 9600X, 9700X, 9900X, 9950X; Ryzen AI 7 Pro 160 and 360; Ryzen AI 9 365, HX 370 and HX 375; Ryzen AI 300) is not currently compatible with the PACE iLok licensing system used by Inspirata.

Memory (RAM) and hard disk space

Inspirata Lite edition: minimum 4 GB RAM and 12 GB free disk space.

Inspirata Personal edition: minimum 4 GB RAM and 210 GB free disk space.

Inspirata Professional and Immersive editions: minimum 8 GB RAM and minimum 210 GB free disk space. Assume approximately 350 MB of RAM requirement per sound source.

Note that the room content can be installed on a separate folder and/or partition and/or hard disk than the plugin. The plugin itself requires only 300 MB of disk space.

Operating system

Windows 10 or later or Mac OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) or later. For any Mac OSX, please also check the compatibility of your DAW before upgrading.

INSPIRATA will very likely run without problems on any operating system where your DAW is running without issues, such as previous versions of Windows or Mac OSX. Since we have not tested INSPIRATA on every operating system available, you can make sure your system is compatible by trying one of the trial versions.

Host

VST3, AAX or AU 64-bit capable digital audio workstation (DAW) host

INSPIRATA Editions

Roompacks for INSPIRATA

INSPIRATA Upgrades to Immersive Edition

INSPIRATA Upgrades to Professional Edition

INSPIRATA Upgrades to Personal Edition