Say hello to Sound Particles 3, your new playground for bold ideas, massive scale, and mind-bending sound design. Whether crafting cinematic soundscapes, sculpting immersive environments, or pushing the limits of audio in music, games, or film — Sound Particles 3 lets you multiply, move, randomize, and render sounds in ways no other tool can.

This Isn’t Just an Update. It’s a Full-On Evolution.

What is Sound Particles 3?
Sound Particles 3 is a standalone immersive audio workstation powered by a 3D engine and a particle system. In plain terms? It’s like having a CGI engine for sound. Create thousands — even millions — of sounds based on a single sample. Arrange them in space. Animate them. Capture them with virtual microphones. Export in any format you like.

Sound Particles 3 Versions:

Sound Particles 3 Artist

• Up to 100 Particles
• Up to 6 Mic Channels
• 15 AI Messages

Sound Particles 3 Professional

• Up to 10,000 Particles
• Unlimited Mic Channels
• 20 AI Messages
• Batch Processing

Sound Particles 3 Enterprise

• Unlimited Particles
• Unlimited Mic Channels
• 30 AI Messages
• Batch Processing
• ADM (Beds + Objects)
• CGI Import

NEW! Features include:

• 20x Faster: The Sound Particles engine just leveled up. Go beyond massive. They re-engineered the engine from the ground up — it’s up to 20x faster, and yes, they measured.
• Add Plug-ins: Your tools, your workflow. From subtle sweetening to full-on sound design, use your favorite plugins in Sound Particles 3.
• ADM Support: Particles can now become objects. Sound Particles 3 allows you to export your projects as ADM files to obtain the maximum space resolution for big theatrical releases.
• Object Budgeting: Specify a max amount of objects that you want to support. It'll handle the rest, selecting which particles should become objects, and which ones should be rendered as beds.
• Chat-Like AI Assistance: Need a 5.1 microphone or to add a subtle movement? Our built-in AI assistant helps you get things done — type your instructions, and it takes care of the rest!
• Virtual Instruments: Any format. Instantly. Load any virtual instrument — synths, samplers, drum machines — and assign them to your particles. Yes, even your piano can now orbit the listener.

Other Features include:

• Particles: Generate thousands of sounds playing at once, based on your input source file. Scalability made easier.
• Immersive Workflow: Define the position and movement of your sounds freely in an endless tridimensional space.
• CGI Integration: Take your animation file and use it to control sounds with no effort. Perfect sync between image and sound.
• Format-Agnostic Session: With the ability to change formats with a click, compose and produce your music without constraints - we speak them all.
• Happy Accidents: Inspire yourself by randomizing your vocal harmony particles, their gain, their position and much more. Randomize responsibly.
• Massive Soundtracks: Turn one sample into a thousand-layered cinematic texture. Create crowds, battlefields, or harmony stacks in seconds.
• Virtual Microphones: Add multiple mics in your workspace to capture sounds from multiple angles and perspectives. Just like in a studio.
• Moving Microphones: With virtual microphones, you can render your session in any audio format and give it movement as if it were a camera.
• Stereo Microphones: Instead of basic gain panning, create stereo mic setups like Decca Tree or ORTF for precise gain and time-based panning.

Chat-Like AI Assistant

The first AI Assistant to truly control a DAW.

• Control Everything: This AI Assistant can control almost every aspect of the software — just write what you want to do.
• Your New Tutor: New to Sound Particles or unsure where to start? The AI Assistant will guide you step by step.
• Multi-Language: Speak your language. The AI can understand and reply in almost any language. Work comfortably in your native tongue.
• Focus On What Matters: From organizing tracks to rendering outputs, the Assistant can automate repetitive tasks. Focus on creativity instead of management.
• Troubleshooting: Don’t know why you can’t hear anything on Sound Particles 3? Just ask. The Assistant helps you diagnose and fix common issues.
• No Generative Audio: Sound Particles' AI Assistant is here to serve you — not to create for you. You give the instructions, and it executes them with precision.

Think Spatial

Even if you only work in stereo, Sound Particles 3 is format-agnostic.

• ADM Objects: Export object metadata to other DAW (budgets, reuse, prioritization). The highest resolution for sound designers.
• Point and Pan: Use your phone as a laser pointer to position sounds around you in 3D, in an easy, fast and, above all, fun way.
• 3D Audio Over Headphones: No 7.1.4 room? Render your session in Binaural for client approval. Or simply use headphones to listen to your session in 3D.
• High Order Ambisonics: With support for up to 6th Order Ambisonics, Sound Particles 3 is able to import and export any Ambisonics format.
• SOFA (Binaural): Import your SOFA file with your personalized HRTF or simply pick one of the existing HRTF datasets.
• Ambisonics Decoder: Listen to your Ambisonics projects in any speaker setup or headphones, in real-time.

The Art of Spatial Music

Your creativity, without barriers.

• MIDI Track Modes: Switch between Instrument, MIDI or Instrument + Particles modes to change how your track behaves.
• Instrumental Particles: (Coming Soon) Turn your VI into particles and define its position, movement and audio modifiers. Ethereal or messy, you choose.
• Virtual Instruments: Instantiate your favorite virtual instrument in any format you like - let it be stereo, 5.1, 9.1.6 or any other output format.
• Piano Roll: Shape every note with precision. Edit, move, trim, duplicate, snap, and quantize your MIDI in the Piano Roll.
• Fine-Tune MIDI: Quantize, cut, copy, paste, duplicate, trim, move, merge, select, and split — everything you need to edit MIDI quickly and precisely.
• Audio Recording: Record, edit, and perfect. Track your audio with precision and flexibility, ready for any workflow.

Epic Sound Design

More sound design, less copy paste.

• 1M+ Particles: Create thousands of sounds, aka particles, playing at the same time - from a big battle to 1000 Taiko drums all around you.
• Movement & Audio Modifiers: With a click, apply physics-based movement and audio modifiers for added diversity. Boost the psycho-acoustic impact.
• Explorer Built-in: Manage your sound collection or access to over 175,000 SFX files through built-in Explorer Cloud (external subscription).
• Granular: Turn a 30 seconds file into an endless audio clip. No more splicing, copying and pasting.
• Batch Processing: Render dozens of files or variations in a single click. Great for trailers, SFX libraries, or when the deadline’s yesterday.
• Controlled Chaos: Even randomness can be controlled. Use different distributions to customize the random behaviour of each parameter.

Intuitive User Experience

3D sound isn’t - and shouldn’t - be complicated.

• 3D Views: See your project from 360º, Top, Front, Side, or Perspective. Know your mix from every angle.
• 25+ Track Presets: Save multiple track and microphone settings and access 100+ professionally crafted presets, recalling setups with just two clicks.
• I/O Manager: With bass management, advanced matrix, Binaural settings, delay compensation and more, your session will adapt to any room.
• Optimized Engine: The Gold standard of 3D audio engine, now supercharged with even more features and up to 20x faster.
• Perspectives: Virtual mics allow you to experiment with different sonic perspectives. Listen to your car from the front, or the back, or above!
• Advanced Video Engine: Put the sounds on top of an image, and assign sounds to elements of your video. A first in any audio workstation.

System Requirements:

• Mac OSX 10.15 or higher -- or -- Windows 10 or Higher
• AAX Native, AUv2 and VST3
• 2-Core or Higher CPU
• 4GB+ RAM
• 1.3GB Disc Space