Ultimate control room monitoring software for surround & immersive audio - Ground Control Sphere

Ginger Audio's Ground Control Sphere is a comprehensive control room monitoring software for surround and immersive audio setups running on Mac.

Features
Eight Inputs, each can be set from 2.0 up to 9.1.6 layout.
Integrated Stereo, Mono & Sides Down-mixing.
Seven Speaker Outputs of any layout.
CUE bus.
Compatible with All core audio devices – up to 16 different devices can be assigned.
Talk Back, Listen Back.
Extensive Metering.
Bass management.
AU plugin hosting.
Remote Control with MIDI.

In this video Matt Glenn of Ears Up Sound Design explains all the features of Sphere and shares his opinions on using this software in his studio for the past 3 weeks.

"Sphere is a really awesome piece of software, and Ginger Audio did a really good job packing it with features that are super useful for day-to-day workflow. I've been using it pretty consistently for the past three weeks, and I can say that it has sped things up, whether I am designing, mixing, or just on a Zoom call."

This video is sponsored by Ginger Audio

00:00 - Welcome - This video is Sponsored
01:44 - Review start
02:30 - The Sphere UI
02:47 - Control room speaker setup
03:34 - monitor section
04:50 - Master section - talkback, ref volume, dim, cut
05:53 - Settings
06:41 - Key Mapping
07:35 - MIDI Setup - MIDI Learn
08:36 - Inputs
09:52 - Loudness Metering
11:33 - Bridge Devices
12:05 - Assigning inputs
12:36 - Advanced input settings
13:39 - Adding AU Plugins to inputs
15:58 - # Outputs
16:44 - Bass management
17:12 - About the speaker configurations
20:17 - Cue mix controls
20:38 - Talkback
21:45 - Pros and cons
21:49 - routing flexibility
22:29 - Plugins
22:55 - MIDI
23:43 - No foldown mixes
25:40 - no custom loudspeaker layouts
26:25 - Needs more documentation
27:07 - Stability
28:13 - Final Thoughts

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[seanwalsh]

Wow, Matt Glenn should be the beta tester for anything audio, man is he through, but not boring a difficult task in a tech oriented field. Thanks Reaper Blog for introducing me to Matt Glenn. I feel that Sphere with only 8 in and 8 out is too limiting for studio work, where it would be nice to be at least 8 stereo pairs for 16 analogues out, then it could be used as a musicians monitor in the recording room.

[TheFalsettoStudios]

For bass management, it only shows that you have connected your sub to just one channel, but generally how do we configure our subs? Because we need 2 xlrs to connect our subs to the audio interface

[kiugoo]

po主您好，请问 我想用midas m32当声卡，输入立体声信号，经过reaper处理 ，做出8声道环绕再返回到m32，应该如何操作，能出个教程么 谢谢 🌹😊

[mattrixx_audio]

RE: DOLBY Renderer fold downs. They are mapped from the Dolby Renderer, so you can simply just create another input, based on the output channels assigned to the re-renders? Or I am I getting this wrong?

[TazzSmk]

Ginger Audio is a small cool company,
refreshing ideas that work well,
big fan of (legacy) Ground Control Cube,
if I may, I'd like to see downloads not hidden behind login paywall though,
prices are fair, but extensive testing is needed (similarly as Reaper), so don't cut off potential customers by weird decisions...

[garethde-witt]

I do wish this silliness with immersive audio would stop, it is totally useless for music rendering it unlistenable. Things that are mixed in to provide simple textures are suddenly placed in spaces that make them pop out when they are meant to be subtle and felt not really heard. Musician placements are unnatural and environmentally wrong. If a percussionist is using a shaker and it’s behind your left ear, then it’s in the wrong place no band spends their time wandering around a venue. No studio recording has a band or any group of musicians walking around while playing, the whole concept is just stupid and sonically disruptive.