3D Audio Maker: Major Sound Quality Update

My free 3D Audio Maker just received its biggest update since launch. The focus this time: making everything sound noticeably more natural — especially in large, reverberant spaces.

A More Realistic Sense of Space

The heart of this update is a completely reworked room simulation:

• Smoother, richer reverb. Large spaces like the church, cathedral and cave presets used to develop a slightly metallic ring in their long reverb tails. That ringing is gone — decays now sound dense, warm and natural all the way to silence.
• Reflections that follow the sound. When you move a sound source across the radar, the room now responds the way a real one would: place a sound on the left, and the early reflections arrive earlier and stronger from the left. The result is a much more convincing feeling of where a sound sits in the room.
• A wider, more natural stereo image. Reverb now spreads more openly between the speakers instead of sitting narrowly in the middle.
• Cleaner movement. Dragging the sound source or animating it with keyframes no longer produces subtle clicks or crackles — position changes and room-size changes are now perfectly smooth.
• More natural dynamics. Loud passages are handled more gently, so the reverb no longer "pumps" when the music gets intense.

Fine-Tuned Room Presets

I reviewed all 29 room presets and re-tuned several of them to take advantage of the new room engine. The canyon now delivers the powerful, repeating echo it always deserved, and the cathedral sounds like a vast continuous space instead of producing a noticeable slap-back echo.

Better Exports

• Very long reverb and echo tails are no longer cut short in exported files — what you hear is what you get.
• Exporting several files in a row is now more reliable.

Quality-of-Life Improvements

• The radar display is now pin-sharp on high-resolution screens.
• Dragging the sound source keeps working even if your cursor briefly leaves the radar — and touch input on tablets and phones is smoother, too.
• Damaged or incompatible project files now show a clear message instead of failing silently.
• Importing presets from a file is safer, and you'll be notified if your browser storage is full.
• The menus can now be operated entirely with the keyboard.
• A few remaining untranslated labels are now available in all 16 languages.

As always, everything runs directly in your browser — your audio never leaves your device. Open the 3D Audio Maker, load a track and give the new cathedral preset a listen. You'll hear the difference within seconds.

Visit: https://ende.app/creator-tools/3d-audio-maker