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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
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Key Features
Sound Particles Pro, Perpetual is the pinnacle of 3D audio software, offering up millions of generated sounds in a virtual world. Ideal for film composers, sound designers, broadcasting engineers and much more, the newly developed Sound Particles 2 engine allows you to create highly complex 3D sounds faster than ever. Coming included with Sound Particles Doppler and Air, you are provided with an even greater palette of sound design parameters for your 3D projects.
Importing sounds creates a particle that generates the audio file. Up to millions of particles can be used, each with subtle variations through audio modifiers to create a seemingly limitless number of sound design options. Using computer-generated graphics, Sound Particles 2 supports integration with a wide range of modern film essentials such as CGI, 3D imaging and 360-degree video playback. Using Ambisonic virtual microphones, you can use the included VR Client App to monitor directly through an Android device with comprehensive head-tracking to hear the result of your sound design.
Compatible with all current audio formats including immersive Binaural audio, Sound Particles 2 lets you render in HOA Ambisonics as well as Dolby Atmos formats. A must-have for all film, videogame, TV or VR sound designers, Sound Particles 2 puts everything you will need in one package to create immersive and exciting sounds faster than ever before.
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Based on the principle of particles, any audio file can be used to produce trigger points that create a particle of sound. Using only one audio file, Sound Particles 2's particle system will each produce the same file with variations, whereas importing more than one file will result in each particle randomly reproducing one of the available audio files. With up to one million particles available, Sound Particles 2 presents an exciting palette of available sound design for contemporary film or TV scoring.
Each particle can be used in a number of different ways including groups or emitters. Groups create all particles simultaneously, whereas emitters produce particles at a constant rate. For added variation, audio modifiers can be placed to each particle, creating a much more diverse range of sounds and movement between each particle. These audio modifiers can be anything from basic functions such as EQ or simple delays to highly complex processes such as randomised filters, randomised pitch-shifters or even granular modifiers.
Now with Keyframe automation and animation support, Sound Particles 2 ascends to the top of all available 3D audio software. Take control over the spatial movement of your sounds in space, controlling every detail of the automation for experimental sound design. Do you want your sound to start within a tight sphere and then expand out 10 meters after 30 seconds? No problem. Sound Particles will take care of the animation and movement for you. Using automation, you can control parameters linked to movement modifiers that are included to add randomised movement in the particles. For example, you can automate hundreds of particles with randomised pitch-shifting moving around a spatial field. It's never been this easy to create sound design in a 3D space.
Acting much like a virtual sound-camera that moves around your source, Sound Particles 2's Virtual Microphone system is the ultimate immersion tool. Using the Virtual Microphones, you can capture your particles from a different perspective, ensuring a better cohesion between your audio and on-screen visual cue. You can use several microphones simultaneously and choose from a wide range of formats, so you're ready for any situation. Omni, cardioid, hyper-cardioid, bi-directional, stereo (XY, MS, AB, Blumlein, Decca Tree, ORTF), Ambisonics, Multi-channel and even immersive Dolby Atmos is supported. While a wide range of different setups is provided to you, Sound Particles 2 allows you to create a customised speaker layout to be used in the Virtual Microphone System.
Crafting sounds to video is the best way to maximise the realism and believability of your film or TV audio. Sound Particles 2 offers the ability to load a video clip or image and mix to the on-screen cue. By using the spherical view, you can see the particles laid on top of the image, allowing you to place sounds within the spatial field more accurately. Additionally, for those that work with virtual reality, Sound Particles 2 allows you to import your 360-degree videos to mix sound. Using Ambisonics Virtual Microphones and the included VR Client application, you can mix your tracks with head-tracking capabilities to visualise how your sound moves around your video source.
Built on a foundation of 64-bit floating-point precision, every particle in Sound Particles 2 is internally processed for maximised audio quality. The advantage of the 64-bit internal processing is due to the volume of sounds that can be mixed inside of Sound Particles 2. Using up to one million particles, you need a large dynamic range to cover everything from the immediate sounds of explosions to the distant sounds of whispers. The dynamic range within the mixing stage is compensated by a normalization that is applied to the output stage to ensure a more linear audio level for listening purposes. Of course, Sound Particles supports sample rates from 44.1 to 192kHz to ensure no matter what system you are using, you can integrate it into your workflow with ease.
"Particles has made an amazing impact on our work, far beyond anything we could accomplish with knobs, buttons, and other software." - Cameron Frankley - Supervising Sound Editor (Geostorm)
"I can honestly say that I’ve never used software like Sound Particles before. It is really quite extraordinary - I’m fascinated by it." - Jason W. Jennings - Supervising Sound Editor (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows)
"Sound Particles produces audio content in a fresh and innovative way. I’ve only scratched the surface of what is possible, and I’m learning to think with a whole new approach. It also has arguably the best Doppler effect I’ve ever used in software!" - David Farmer - Sound Designer (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit)
"We’re able to do all sorts of really challenging soundscapes using particles. It’s a fascinating tool that I’ve used a lot on the show to build elements." - Benjamin Cook - Supervising Sound Editor (Black Sails - Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing)
