Welcome to the Future of Sound Design
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.
From stereo to Dolby Atmos, from sound design to final mix — it’s all here.
New Features:
20x Faster
Our engine just levelled up. Go beyond massive. We re-engineered the engine from the ground up — it’s up to 20x faster, and yes, we measured.
Add Plugins
Your tools, your workflow. From subtle sweetening to full-on sound design, use your favourite 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. We’ll handle the rest, selecting which particles should become objects, and which ones should be rendered as beds.
COMING SOON
ChatGPT-like AI Assistant
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!
COMING SOON
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.
Unmatched Features
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.
Think Spatial - Even if you only work in stereo. We’re 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.
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.
OPTIMISED 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.
Compare Versions
| Artist | Professional | Enterprise |
| Up to 100 Particles | Up to 10000 Particles | Unlimited Particles |
| Up to 6 Mic Channels | Unlimited Mic Channels | Unlimited Mic Channels |
| X | Batch Processing | Batch Processing |
| X | X | ADM (Beds + Objects) |
| X | X | CGI Import |
System Requirements
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OS |
Mac OSX 10.15 or higher Intel and native Apple Silicon Macs Windows 10 or higher |
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CPU |
4-core or higher |
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RAM |
8 GB or higher |
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Disk Space |
1.3 GB |
We grant you access to Sound Particles 3 with full capabilities for a period of 30 days. We hope this will allow you to fully explore the power of our software, before committing to a purchase. It is not possible to export audio files. Trial versions cannot be used on commercial nor public projects.