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Seamless and Perfect Translation
Create music that sounds great on phones, laptops, earbuds, or wherever else its played.
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Trust every mixing decision you make
Mix With Confidence
Stop second-guessing yourself and trust every decision.
Reference Standard
The only market solution providing ultimate accuracy for consistent reference sound between your speakers and headphones.
Perfect Translation
Create music that sounds great on phones, laptops, earbuds, or wherever else its played.
Improved Collaboration
Get only relevant feedback by working on the same reference sound regardless of distance or the 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 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.
Customise your target sound using a parametric equaliser
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 on different listening environments
Access a library of 20 predefined simulations that will allow to check the mix in different listening environments
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.
Used and loved by 100,000+ studios and 55+ Grammy-Awarded-Engineers worldwide
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“The difference is immense.”
Imogen Heap GRAMMY Award-winning artist, singer-songwriter, engineer, producer and composer
“It’s a key part of my setup.”
Ariel Borujow Grammy winning Mix Engineer, Mac Miller, Puff Daddy, Madonna, MoonBoots, CID
Requirements
Computer
• Mac: macOS 10.12 or later
• PC: Windows 8 (64-bit) or later
For Headphone calibration
For Speaker calibration
• SoundID Reference measurement microphone
• Other omnidirectional measurement microphone
• +48v Phantom Power audio interface with 44.1 kHz sample rate capability
• Stereo setup only
• During the speaker measurement process, the same audio interface must be used for input-output
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Frequently asked questions
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
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.
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.
All 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.
You can find all SoundID Reference supported headphone models here. Moreover, we are constantly increasing the number of supported headphones.
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.
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