Perfect acoustic
Access your perfect virtual mix room everywhere through your headphones
Your perfect control room
Create great mixes anytime,
anywhere, and in any format
All speaker setups
Monitor any common speaker setup from stereo up to 7.1.4 and 9.1.6
Know how it transfers
Skip the car test and check your productions in 11 different environments
Enjoy a personal acoustic reference you can rely on
MIX WITH GREATER ACCURACY AND EASE
Benefit from our outstanding virtual acoustics technology
It’s not a big secret; creating a great mix is so much easier within a perfect control room. We’ve probably all experienced when a final mix has not translated as expected to other systems.
With dearVR MONITOR, you get access to your own virtual reference-grade mix room over headphones. Don’t limit yourself anymore by poor room acoustics or missing speaker setups.
Music creation with dearVR MONITOR
"Being able to reference my mix while on the go without having to drop by a studio or connect it to the car is of tremendous value."
(Timbaland, XXXTentacion, Taryn Manning)
Post-production with dearVR MONITOR
"…products like the dearVR MONITOR Plugin provide a remarkable window into how multichannel mixes sound."
Manager for Sound Technology at Netflix
Main Features
Mix your music in a perfect virtual mix room
Ideal mix room models
dearVR MONITOR combines the analytic advantages of headphone listening, such as high detail resolution and good spatial representation, with the perception of mixing in a perfectly matched mix room.
Don’t get disturbed anymore by surrounding noise and focus on your production. Discover Dear Reality’s outstanding virtual acoustics headphone technology delivering you a personal acoustic reference you can rely on. Anytime and anywhere.
Precisely monitor multi-channel mixes
Immersive mixes ready to ship
Don’t worry if you don’t have a multi-channel speaker setup in your mix room. With dearVR MONITOR, you can choose between all common speaker setups from stereo up to 9.1.6 or 13.1.
Just grab your headphones and start producing and mixing immersive audio tracks like Dolby ATMOS today.
Shape the character of your mix room
Adaptable room acoustics
It becomes your perfect control room when you feel comfortable with the room's features and perception. With dearVR MONITOR, you quickly adapt the virtual mix room to your taste and needs using the AMBIENCE and the FOCUS parameter. Set the right amount of diffusion and, therefore, the vividness of the mix room with Ambience. Select the perfect level between overall coloration and localization based on the patented Clarity algorithm by Sennheiser AMBEO.
Check your mix in different acoustic scenarios
11 realistic listening environments
Stop spending hours double-checking how your mix translates into common listening scenarios. dearVR MONITOR puts you just a few clicks away from monitoring your production in 11 different acoustic environments like Club, Car, Cinema, Living Room, and many more.
RELY ON WHAT YOU HEAR, ANYTIME AND ANYWHERE
Spatial Headphone Compensation
Activate the built-in Headphone Compensation (SHC) and start making solid mixes with an accuracy that you won't find anywhere else. Compensating for the characteristics of individual headphone models, Dear Reality's SHC applies the optimal adjustments to support a model-independent accurate simulation of listening environments.
Dear Reality's unique technology currently supports the 55 most used professional studio headphones. Each model has been carefully optimized by the Dear Reality team.
Enter your perfect virtual mix room
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Key Features
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REFERENCE-GRADE MIX ROOM
For stereo and multi-channel productions
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IDEAL MIX ROOM MODELS
Choose from 5 ideal mix room models (Mix Room A, Mix Room B, Mix Room Large, Analytic Dry, Analytic Position)
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ADJUSTABLE ACOUSTIC
Easily adjust the acoustic characteristics of your mix room using the AMBIENCE slider
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NEW: OSC HEAD TRACKING SUPPORT
Connect your OSC head-tracker to enable head tracking in dearVR MONITOR
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MULTI-CHANNEL SPEAKER SETUPS
Support of all common speaker setups for immersive audio productions, including height layers, like 7.1.4 up to 9.1.6
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COMMON LISTENING ENVIRONMENTS
Double-check your mix in 11 typical listening environments (Live Venue, Stadium, Acoustic Venue, Club Large, Club, Car, Van, Cinema, Home Theater, Living Room, Kitchen)
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REDUCED SPECTRAL COLORIZATION
Unrivaled FOCUS parameter to reduce spectral colorizations including patented Clarity algorithm by Sennheiser AMBEO
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EASY-TO-USE
Easy-to-use graphic interface showing the selected loudspeaker format
REQUIREMENTS
Plugin format
VST3 / AU / AAX
Mac OS X
OS X 10.12+
Intel CPU (minimum 2 GHz recommended)
Native Apple silicon support
Windows
Windows 10 - 11
Intel-compatible CPU with SSE2 instruction set (minimum 2 GHz recommended)
DAW support
Most VST3/AU/AAX compatible hosts running on a supported operating system
64-bit support only
Head Tracking
Head tracking via dearVR SPATIAL CONNECT or OSC
Supported sample rates
44.1 / 48 / 88.2 / 96 / 176.4 / 192kHz
DIVE DEEPER INTO dearVR MONITOR
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Feature overview
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First look by PTE
FAQs
If you’ve bought a perpetual license of dearVR MONITOR using the Plugin Alliance license manager, you can update to the new dearVR MONITOR version for free.
To shift to the new license manager and the latest version of dearVR MONITOR, please follow this link and complete the form. Our support team will then reach out to you with your new activation code.
If you have any questions regarding the update, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
You can use dearVR MONITOR in most VST3/AU/AAX DAWs without any special hardware. To listen to multi-channel audio formats from 5.1 to 9.1.6, you just need a DAW that supports the same number of channels per track as the format you want to monitor.
In general, dearVR MONITOR works with any headphones brand. However, open-back headphones and in-ears with a flat frequency response work best.
The built-in Spatial Headphone Compensation technology further enhances the reliability and spatial impression, supporting a model-independent accurate listening environment simulation. You can find a list of the supported models here.
dearVR MONITOR is the perfect solution to monitor multi-channel mixes like 5.1 or 9.1.6 on headphones.
dearVR PRO 2 acts as the counterpart to dearVR MONITOR, enabling you to bring any audio source into your preferred multi-channel audio formats.
dearVR MONITOR uses our advanced binaural filtering technology to provide you the impression of a natural acoustic environment with loudspeakers in front of and around you. Using this on stereo speakers could cause an intense coloration of the sound and is not recommended, although you can use the Focus slider to reduce the coloration.
dearVR MIX offers a perfect stereo control room. dearVR MONITOR extends this concept to an idealized multi-channel control room, supporting formats 5.1 up to 7.1.2 or 9.1.6. It also includes two more control rooms and five more listening environments.
