Festival Simulator is not on sale yet. Everything described below is implemented and measured, but it is a 0.1: constants are still prototype tuning values and no listening evaluation has been signed off.
A master-bus listening environment that puts you in the field at a large outdoor festival, so mix decisions are made from where the music is actually heard.
The plug-in window. Drag the listener across the site plan to move yourself through the field.
Two virtual stacks sit 48 m apart, with the subs deployed as a cardioid centre array by default. Distance, angle and the delay between the stacks all follow where you are standing, and you set that by dragging a listener across an aerial plan rather than by turning a knob.
Walk off axis and the near hang goes dull while the far hang still has you in coverage. Walk back and the top end falls away. Stand to one side and the low end tells you the boxes are still at stage centre, because that is where a real cardioid array sits.
There is no studio-monitor mode, no room correction and no headphone-compensation database. Headphones are the required listening path, because the binaural stage is what places the two stacks around you.
