PolarDesigner

Our open-source plug-in developed by Thomas, Simon, IEM and Austrian Audio.

PolarDesigner allows you to control the polar pattern of your OC818 microphone in up to five frequency bands.
Available as VST3, AAX and AU. Get installers for Windows and Mac at austrian.audio.

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Release Downloads

Available here:

https://austrian.audio/polardesigner/

User Manual

Polar Designer has a user manual - developers/contributors are encouraged to use it:

https://austrian.audio/partner/polardesigner_manual/?attachment_id=1021&download_file=1

Requirements

A copy of the JUCE source repository is needed, as these plugins refer to JUCE modules. An example for how you would check things out for development might be thus:

    $ mkdir AustrianAudioPlugins ;cd AustrianAudioPlugins
    $ git clone https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE.git
    $ git clone https://github.com/AustrianAudioGmbH/AmbiCreator
    $ git clone https://github.com/AustrianAudioGmbH/PolarDesigner
    $ git clone https://github.com/AustrianAudioGmbH/StereoCreator

The JUCE repo should be checked out 'alongside' the Plugin sources, so that your folder structure might look like this (if you've checked out all of our other plugins as well, which also have this requirement):

.
├── AmbiCreator
├── JUCE
├── PolarDesigner
└── StereoCreator

Requirements

For building AAX plugins you need to add the AAX SDK location to your Projucer paths.

Building PolarDesigner

PolarDesigner is based on JUCE. To build PolarDesigner, get a recent version of JUCE and open PolarDesigner.jucer in Projucer. Select an exporter of your choice (e.g. Visual Studio or XCode) to create and open a project file in your IDE.

Related repositories

Parts of the code are based on the IEM Plugin Suite - check it out, it's awesome!

Plugin Setup Videos:

Austrian Audio Polar Designer - Overview And Manual Setup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ydtS6XCKM

Austrian Audio Polar Designer - Automatic Pattern selection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbC0igNkpxA

Plugin Demo Videos:

Adrian Hall using the Austrian OC818 and PolarDesigner Plugin on a drum track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FQQ4QaiJaM

Adrian Hall using the Austrian OC818 and PolarDesigner Plugin on a String Ensemble recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx4dtXh_6wg

How to use the Austrian Audio PolarDesigner plugin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrlsqG3dZSo

Austrian Audio's PolarDesigner PlugIn explained by Christoph Frank / Snr. Acoustic Engineer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHBV5hgBzsU

Austrian Audio PolarDesigner. Free Open Source Polar Pattern Plugin for OC818. Now with AI! #3 of 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dvPbVjbu4o

Austrian Audio Polar Designer - Automatic Pattern selection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbC0igNkpxA

WAIT .. this can do WHAT? || Austrian Audio OC818: (PolarPilot) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_s23-RnjqQ