Authorised Distributor · MENA

Every room lies. Yours included.
Calibrate it.

No control room is neutral. Walls, corners and speakers all colour what you hear, so a mix built on that colouring falls apart the moment it leaves the room. SoundID Reference measures your room and your headphones, then corrects them to a known reference — a standalone app and a DAW plug-in, from stereo to 9.1.6 Atmos, and now with your own room carried onto headphones.

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SoundID Reference measurement microphone in front of a studio monitor

500+ Headphone models with a factory calibration profile

FoundedRiga, 2012

Headphones500+ Models

SpeakersStereo to 9.1.6

FormatsAAX · AU · VST3

CoverageMENA

About Sonarworks

The company that made a flat room something you can buy.

Sonarworks was founded in Riga in 2012 on a single observation: studios spend heavily on monitors and almost nothing on knowing what those monitors are doing in the room they sit in. Their answer was to measure it — a guided sweep, an individually calibrated microphone, and a correction filter derived from what the microphone actually heard rather than from a set of graphic-EQ guesses.

SoundID Reference is the result, and it has become the reference standard for calibrated monitoring: used in mastering rooms, post suites, broadcast facilities and bedrooms, and licensed into hardware by manufacturers including Universal Audio. The headphone library now covers more than 500 models, and the multichannel licence carries the same correction into immersive rooms of up to 9.1.6.

Available across MENA through MediaCast — authorised distributor, with measurement and setup support, and live demonstrations at MCX — MediaCast Experience Center in Barsha Heights.

Mastering Post Production Dolby Atmos Rooms Broadcast Music Production Podcast & Creator Home Studio Mobile & OB

Works with

Pro Tools Logic Pro Ableton Live Cubase Studio One Nuendo Reaper FL Studio Systemwide (any app)

2012Founded in Riga

500+Headphone Profiles

9.1.6Immersive Channels

SoundID Reference · Room Check

MeasuringRoom & speakers

Deviation±9.4 dB

TargetFlat · SoundID SR

SoundIDReference Software

MeasurementMicrophone & Room

TargetsFlat · Atmos · Check

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SoundID Reference · Calibration Software

Three licences. One flat reference.

SoundID Reference measures what your speakers and your room are actually doing, then takes it back out. It runs as a systemwide application that calibrates everything the computer plays, or as a plug-in on the master bus. Which licence you need comes down to how you monitor — a stereo pair, an immersive room, or headphones alone.

SoundID Reference plug-in showing measured and corrected frequency response curves

SW5SX · Speakers & Headphones

SoundID Reference for Speakers & Headphones

The standard licence. Measure a stereo pair with a calibrated XREF measurement microphone, and load factory calibration profiles for more than 500 headphone models. Available systemwide for every application on the machine, or as an AAX, AU or VST3 plug-in with a zero-latency filter mode for tracking.

Stereo500+ Headphone ProfilesSystemwide + Plug-inZero-Latency FilterMac & Windows

SoundID Reference showing a custom target curve applied across the band

SW5MX · Multichannel

SoundID Reference for Multichannel

Everything the stereo licence does, extended to immersive rooms of up to 9.1.6. Every channel is measured and corrected on its own, so a surround bed or an Atmos mix translates the way a stereo mix does — and the Dolby Atmos Music target sits alongside the flat SoundID SR reference.

Up to 9.1.6Per-Channel CorrectionAtmos Music TargetIncludes StereoCustom Targets

SoundID VirtualMonitoring showing near, mid and far field speaker selection

SW5VMPE · VirtualMonitoring PRO

SoundID VirtualMonitoring PRO

Puts a reference room inside a pair of headphones — near-field, mid-field and far-field monitors modelled in a treated space. A hotel room, an OB truck or a late night at home still gives you a monitoring position you recognise. The PRO licence carries it into immersive channel layouts.

HeadphonesNear / Mid / Far FieldModelled RoomImmersive LayoutsWorks Anywhere

SoundID Reference · Software

Your room has a signature, and every mix you make carries it — until you take it out.

Measurement takes about a quarter of an hour. The correction runs from then on, on everything the machine plays.

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Measurement · Microphone and Room

A quarter of an hour with a microphone, and the room stops arguing.

A calibration is only ever as honest as the measurement behind it. Sonarworks uses an individually calibrated measurement microphone and a guided sweep taken at a series of positions around the listening spot — so the profile describes the seat you actually sit in, not one point in space.

A working project studio with monitors, synths and no acoustic treatment

The Problem · Untreated Rooms

Every room lies

A standing wave in the length of the room, an early reflection off the desk, a corner loading the bass by several decibels. None of it is in the speakers, none of it shows on a meter, and all of it ends up in the mix — because you compensate for what you hear without knowing you are doing it.

Standing WavesDesk ReflectionsCorner LoadingComb Filtering

Measured frequency response traces before calibration, spread across a wide range

Measurement · Before

What the microphone finds

A frequency sweep played through each monitor and captured across the listening area. Each trace is one measurement position — the spread between them is how much the room changes depending on where your head is, which is why a single-point measurement is not enough.

Sweep per ChannelMultiple PositionsXREF MicrophoneGuided Routine

Frequency response after calibration, flat across the band

Calibration · After

What you hear instead

The correction filter is the inverse of the measurement. What comes back is a flat response across the listening position — the same reference every other calibrated room is working to, which is the whole point of calibrating in the first place.

Flat ReferenceZero-Latency OptionSystemwide or Plug-inInstant Bypass

Measurement · Room Correction

You cannot fix what you have not measured — and a room is the one thing you cannot measure by ear.

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Target Modes · Translation

Flat is the starting point, not the only one.

A calibrated room gives you one honest reference. From there, SoundID Reference lets you audition the mix against the curves it will actually be played through — without leaving the session or touching the mix bus.

FLT · Flat Target

SoundID SR — Studio Reference

A flat response across the band, matched to what a properly treated control room measures. It is the default, and it is the target everything else on this page is compared against.

Studio ReferenceFlatDefault

DLB · Dolby

Dolby Atmos Music

The Dolby Atmos Music target, applied on top of the room correction, so an immersive mix is auditioned against the curve the platform expects rather than against the shape of your ceiling.

ImmersiveAtmos MusicMultichannel

CHK · Translation Check

The devices people actually use

Averaged response curves for smartphone speakers, laptops, car systems and earbuds. One click swaps the reference, so you find out where the low end disappears before the client does.

Smartphone AverageLaptopCarEarbuds

SoundID Reference · MENA

From one pair of nearfields to a 9.1.6 room — Joel can specify the right licence and get you measured.

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Technology

What makes Sonarworks different.

Room correction is an old idea that has mostly been done badly. These are the parts of the Sonarworks approach that decide whether a calibration is worth switching on.

Measurement, not guesswork

A room correction you can trust

The filter is derived from a real acoustic measurement of your room, taken with an individually calibrated microphone at a series of positions around the listening spot. Nothing is assumed about the speakers, the walls or the desk — it is measured, then inverted.

Zero-Latency Filter

Calibration you can keep on while tracking

Two filter modes: a linear-phase filter for the most accurate correction while mixing, and a zero-latency mode that keeps the correction in place with no added delay — so the calibration does not have to come off the moment someone puts headphones on to record.

Systemwide or Plug-in

Correct the machine, or correct the session

The systemwide application sits between the operating system and the interface, so reference tracks in a browser, a client link and a rough mix in another editor are all heard through the same calibration. The plug-in does the same job inside one session, on the master bus.

500+ Headphone Profiles

The same reference on speakers and on headphones

Factory-measured calibration profiles for more than 500 headphone models, from studio standards to consumer sets. Switching from monitors to headphones stops being a change of reference — the tonal balance follows you across.

Multichannel to 9.1.6

Immersive rooms, measured channel by channel

The multichannel licence measures and corrects every speaker in the array on its own, including the height layer. An Atmos bed then behaves the way the stereo mix does — and the Dolby Atmos Music target is available alongside the flat reference.

Translation Check

Hear the mix on what people actually own

Averaged response curves for smartphone speakers, laptops, car systems and earbuds, switchable from the same panel as the room correction. It is not a substitute for checking on the real thing, but it catches the obvious problems before the client does.

Applications

Every room that has to be trusted.

Calibration matters most where a wrong decision is expensive — and where the same material has to sound the same in more than one place.

Mastering

The room is the last variable. A mastering chain that is honest everywhere but the monitoring position is not honest at all — SoundID Reference removes the room from the decision.

Post Production & Film

The multichannel licence measures every speaker in the array, height layer included, so dialogue and effects sit the same way in the suite as they will on the platform.

Dolby Atmos Rooms

Per-channel correction to 9.1.6, with the Dolby Atmos Music target available alongside the flat reference. The bed behaves the way the stereo mix does.

Broadcast & Radio

Voice chains judged in a control room that has never been measured drift over time. A calibrated monitoring path keeps that judgement consistent across shifts and across rooms.

Home Studio & Music Production

The room most music is made in is the one nobody treated. Calibration is by a distance the cheapest improvement available to it — and the only one that does not need building work.

Mobile, OB & Working Away

VirtualMonitoring PRO puts a modelled reference room in the headphones, so a hotel desk or an OB truck still gives you a monitoring position you know.

Sonarworks · MediaCast · MENA

Not sure which licence? Tell Joel about the room.

A stereo pair in a spare bedroom or a 9.1.6 Atmos suite — Joel will come back with the right licence, what measuring it involves and pricing, within one business day.

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Monitoring Setups

Which licence is right for your room?

Three ways people monitor — three answers.

One Room, One Pair

A stereo pair and a desk. The single biggest improvement available to this room does not involve buying speakers.

Measure the room

A guided sweep with a calibrated XREF microphone, taken across the listening area.

Run it systemwide

Everything the machine plays goes through the correction — session, browser, client link.

Carry it to headphones

Load the profile for the headphones you already own and keep the same reference.

SoundID ReferenceSW5SX · Speakers & Headphones

START

XREF Measurement MicrophoneIndividually calibrated

MEASURE

Headphone Profiles500+ models, included

HEADPHONES

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The Immersive Room

A surround or Atmos array, where a single untreated channel can undo the whole bed.

Measure every channel

Each speaker in the array is measured and corrected on its own, height layer included.

Choose the target

Flat SoundID SR for the mix, Dolby Atmos Music when the platform expects it.

Check the fold-down

Translation Check against the devices the material will really be played on.

SoundID ReferenceSW5MX · Multichannel to 9.1.6

IMMERSIVE

Dolby Atmos Music TargetBuilt into the multichannel licence

TARGET

Per-Channel CorrectionBed and height layer

CORRECTION

Design my immersive room →

Working Away From the Room

A hotel desk, an OB truck, an edit suite that is not yours. No measurement is possible and none is needed.

Put the room in the headphones

Near-field, mid-field and far-field monitors modelled in a treated space.

Keep one reference

The same monitoring position whether you are in the studio or not.

Take it immersive

The PRO licence extends the modelled room to immersive channel layouts.

SoundID VirtualMonitoring PROSW5VMPE · Headphone monitoring

MOBILE

Near / Mid / Far FieldThree modelled monitoring positions

POSITIONS

Headphone ProfilesCalibrated headphones underneath

FOUNDATION

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Your Sonarworks Specialist

Joel knows Sonarworks. Which licence, what measuring involves, and whether it will help.

Joel is MediaCast’s specialist for Sonarworks, Universal Audio, IK Multimedia, MOTU and Apogee. He has measured and calibrated home studios, broadcast voice chains, post production suites and professional recording facilities across the region.

Tell him the room, the monitors and how you work. He’ll come back with the right licence and what the measurement involves — and you can hear a calibrated room against an uncalibrated one at MCX before you decide.

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