New here? Start with Ambisonics in REAPER
Level: Beginner to Advanced | Audience: Composers, students, producers, technicians, and studio residents.
Ambisonics is a method for capturing and reproducing three-dimensional sound. The ICST plugins bring this approach into REAPER through free, open-source, studio-tested workflows developed at ZHdK Zurich.
If you are new, follow the guided start path. If you already know the plugins, jump straight to Quick Start, tutorials, or the docs.
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🎛️ Working with Ambisonics?
Free and open-source spatial audio tools for REAPER — from first setup to advanced OSC control and DAW integration.
Guided 4-step start path🎧 For Beginners
Fast entry into setup, signal flow, and your first spatial mix in REAPER.
⚙️ For Production Work
Technical depth for repeatable pipelines, OSC control, and robust session templates.
🎼 Composing in Ambisonics
Spatial thinking for composers — analytical listening, movement and depth as compositional parameters, studio workflows. Composing Guide coming soon.
🎛️ Ambisonics Plugins for REAPER
Encode, decode, and spatialise audio directly in your DAW. Encoder, decoder, monitor, and more — the complete ICST suite.
🧊 Ambisonics Tools for Max/MSP
For live spatialisation, algorithmic sound, and extending workflows beyond REAPER — runs natively in Max 8.
🏛️ At the ICST Studio?
For ZHdK residents, composers and studio visitors — listening sessions, residency documentation and studio resources.
Resident guide — 4 steps before & during your stay🎧 ASCOLTA
Regular acousmatic listening sessions and concerts at ZHdK — spatial works performed live, open for audience.
🎼 Residencies
Artist-in-residence programme at ICST — profiles, projects and documentation from past and current residents.
🖥️ Composer Studio
Setup documentation, equipment, speaker configurations, and studio cases from the ICST Composition Studio.
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All ICST tools and supporting files in one place. Plugins Studio Files PDF Guides B-Format Papers 🎛️ ICST Ambisonics Plugins for REAPER Free and open-source VST3/AU/LV2 plugin suite for Higher Order Ambisonics in REAPER — encoder, decoder, multi-decoder, monitor, and animator. 🎛️ Plugin Download Current macOS and Windows installers on GitHub. Requires REAPER 6+. Download from GitHub → Plugin Docs Installation Guide 🧊 Max/MSP Externals ICST Ambisonics Tools for Max 8 — live spatialisation, algorithmic sound, and OSC integration. Hosted on ZHdK.