Spatial field
See where every channel sits
Know what the bed is doing without soloing it.
A live 3D field shows your 7.1.4 bed as virtual speakers — spatial weight and activity at a glance, from any angle.
Coming soon · macOS 14+
Not just Apple Spatial.
Two binaural engines, one click apart — our own Orbit Binaural, and Apple's renderer to check what Apple Music listeners actually hear.
Orbit BinauralApple SpatialKU100 · KEMARHead trackingAU · VST3 · CLAP
Two binaural engines
Our render, and theirs — a click apart.
Orbit Binaural
Our own binaural engine — a natural, externalised render we think is among the best-sounding HRTFs anywhere. Switch between Orbit Studio, Orbit Reference and the industry-reference Neumann KU100 and KEMAR.
Apple Spatial Audio
Apple’s own renderer, to hear exactly what Apple Music listeners get — standard or your personalised profile. A/B against Orbit Binaural in a click.
Inside Orbit Monitor
See the render, not just hear it.
Every channel going in, the binaural coming out, and the field it came from.
Input
Every channel, live
See exactly what is feeding the render.
Per-channel waveforms for the whole 7.1.4 bed — L, R, C, LFE, surrounds and tops — in real time.
Output
Watch the render itself
Catch a problem in the binaural, not just the bed.
The binaural output as a live L / R waveform, with a single-channel view when you want to focus in.
Metering
Meter every channel, solo any group
Isolate exactly what you are checking, in one tap.
Per-channel input meters for the full 7.1.4 bed with one-tap group solos — L/R, centre, LFE, surrounds or heights.
Apple Spatial
Hear what Apple Music hears
Check the render your listeners actually get.
Switch to Apple’s renderer in a click — Music or Movie, standard or your personalised profile, with head tracking.
Also includes
Head tracking
AirPods Pro & MaxAny webcam (Vision)Tunable yaw / pitch / roll
Runs as
AU · VST3 · CLAPStandalone (macOS)Logic · Pro Tools · Nuendo
Switching
Instant A/BNo playback stopBetween HRTFs too
One-time purchase
£79. Both engines.
Education £49 for verified students and teachers, with a 14-day free trial at launch.
Orbit Monitor
Coming soon · macOS 14+
£79
- Orbit Binaural — our own HRTF engine
- KU100, KEMAR, Orbit Studio & Reference HRTFs
- Apple Spatial Audio (standard + personalised)
- Standalone (macOS) + AU, VST3 & CLAP plugins
- Head tracking — AirPods or webcam (Vision)
- 2 machine activations · macOS
Education
Verified students and teachers get Orbit Monitor at £49 — same engines, same updates.
Need the full suite?
Orbit does ADM QC, loudness metering, object inspection, PDF reports, binaural export and custom HRTFs on top of monitoring.
See Orbit — £99 Minimum system requirements
These are floors — what the machine needs, not what the app uses. Its own footprint is a small fraction of the numbers below.
Operating system
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later
Mac
Apple Silicon — M1 or later
Apple Spatial Audio needs Apple Silicon, so there is no Intel or Windows build. Monitor is macOS only.
Memory
8 GB RAM
Every Apple Silicon Mac ships with at least this. It is what the Mac needs, not what Monitor takes — the app itself is a small fraction of it.
Storage
1 GB free
The app itself is a fraction of this.
Plug-in host
Any host that loads AU, VST3 or CLAP
Monitor also runs standalone, with no host at all.
Activations
Two Macs per licence
The studio machine and a laptop, say. Sign out on a device whenever you like and its activation frees up straight away, ready to use somewhere else.
Licence & internet
- Free trial
- A continuous internet connection, for as long as the trial runs.
- One-time licence
- Works offline. It only has to reach us once every 30 days to stay active.
- Subscription
- Coming soon. A constant connection — the licence refreshes every 24 hours.
Binaural you can trust, and check.
Orbit Monitor is coming soon. Tell us where to send the launch note.
StandalonemacOS 14+ · Apple Silicon PluginsAU · VST3 · CLAP Activations2 machines