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Create music that sounds great on phones, laptops, earbuds, or wherever else its played.
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Mix With Confidence
Stop second-guessing yourself and trust every decision.
Reference Standard
The market's only solution that provides ultimate accuracy for consistent reference sound across your speakers and headphones.
Perfect Translation
Create music that sounds great on phones, laptops, earbuds, or wherever else its played.
Improved Collaboration
Get relevant feedback by working with the same reference sound no matter the distance or gear you have.
Accurate Reference Sound For Perfect Translation
SoundID Reference delivers consistently accurate studio reference sound across all speakers and headphones, so you can mix with confidence and make music that sounds great everywhere.
How different speakers and headphones sound when playing an audio signal before calibration
Take Control of Your Listening Environment With Our Key Features
DAW Plugin and Systemwide Calibration
Works in all major DAWs as a plugin and as a standalone Systemwide app calibrating audio across your entire system.
Customize your target sound using a parametric equalizer
Make custom adjustments to the target curve in real time and manually select the frequency range that the calibration will be applied to.
Check your mix in different listening environments
Access a library of 20 predefined simulated listening environments that provide great conditions for reviewing mixes.
Filter modes for live tracking and ultimate audio clarity
Select between different filter processing modes - zero latency for live tracking, mixed, or linear phase delivering ultimate audio clarity.
Multichannel speaker plugin calibration including custom targets
LFE and satelite phase alignment. Time and volume correction.
Learn more about multichannel
Sonarworks tech used and loved by 100,000+ studios and 55+ Grammy-Awarded-Engineers worldwide
“The difference is immense.”
GRAMMY Award-winning artist, singer-songwriter, engineer, producer and composer
“It’s a key part of my setup.”
Grammy winning Mix Engineer, Mac Miller, Puff Daddy, Madonna, MoonBoots, CID
“Speaker calibration made easy for anyone.”
Grammy Award-Winning Audio engineer and producer.
Mary J Blige, Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, JLo, and
CEO of South Mountain Music
“My speakers have never sounded this good!”
Grammy Award-winning Mixing Engineer and Producer David Guetta, Rihanna, Sia, J Cole, Ne-Yo
“It makes such a difference to creating and mixing process. The clarity of sound is stunning.”
Haiku hands has been touted by NME as “Australia’s most electrifying pop prospect” and “a thrilling pop hybrid” who combine the pure pop attitude of Charli XCX with the energy and swagger of The Beastie Boys.
“It’s incredible how much more detail you can hear.”
Mix Engineer, Multi-platinum American Music Award and Billboard Music Award winner. XXXTentacion, Swae Lee, Kanye West and Lil Wayne
Requirements
Computer
Windows: 10, 11
MacOS: 10.14, 10.15, 11 Big Sur, 12 Monterey
For Headphone calibration
For Speaker calibration
SoundID Reference measurement microphone
or other omnidirectional measurement microphone
Audio interface with +48v Phantom Power support
Supported setups: from 2.0 Stereo up to 9.1.6 Atmos Learn more about multichannelFrequently asked questions
SoundID Reference supports over 480 headphone models. Moreover, we are constantly increasing the number of supported headphones.
You can find all SoundID Reference supported headphone models here.
To try out speaker calibration you will need a measurement microphone. You can buy the measurement microphone from our store or use your own. You can use any omnidirectional condenser measurement microphone. Please note that we will not be able to consult the calibration outcome if you are not using an individually calibrated microphone.
We have provided multiple upgrade options for customers who already own a Reference 3 or Reference 4 license. Here you can find out all details about upgrade options https://www.sonarworks.com/soundid-reference/upgrade-info
SoundID Reference is the recent successor of Reference 4 software. Our latest software version delivers the same consistently accurate reference sound so you can trust every mixing decision. But with the new update, we have added new features like translations check and powerful custom target curve adjustments and made significant improvements to even further improve your workflow. Find out more in this article.
Yes, you can. Your existing mic is fully compatible with the latest SoundID Reference software version and there's no need to purchase a new one nor to re-measure the room and speakers. Remeasurement is required if you have moved things around the studio.
All digital products are delivered via email immediately after the purchase. All physical deliverable items from Sonarworks store are shipped by DHL Express within 2-3 working days in the EU and 3-5 working days in the rest of the world. If we are out of stock, purchases are usually delivered within 2-3 weeks. But don't worry, it happens very rarely.
No worries! We grant a 14-day money-back guarantee from the order date on any digital item or from the date of delivery on any shippable item you buy at Sonarworks online store. If you are not completely satisfied, please contact support team to arrange the return.
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→ Try out on any of supported headphones and speakers for up to 9.1.6. setups.