SGD

SGD turns a sound file into a gesture: a sound together with its motion through a virtual room around the listener. You draw the path on the room floor, lift it into three dimensions with an elevation curve, bend the timing with a motion curve, and bind the result to a MIDI key. Pressing that key does not merely play the sound, it sends it travelling — around you, overhead, past your ear.

SGD does not pan. It binauralizes every gesture against a physical model of the room, so on headphones the sound leaves your head, with distance, air, wall reflections and Doppler all following from the space you built. The whole spatial computation runs offline in the background, so playback itself costs almost nothing — and every gesture still keeps its own mixer strip with gain, three-band EQ and a send to the shared room reverb.

A sound, a path, a key

That is a gesture, and the list keeps all three together: the sound file it plays, a thumbnail of the path it flies, and the key it answers to. Pick a new key from the dropdown and the binding moves with it — up to 128 gestures in a room, each with its own colour.

Play space like an instrument

Every gesture lives on a MIDI key, marked by its own colour on the keyboard. Spatial sound design stops being an automation-lane chore and becomes something you perform live, from your DAW or the standalone application.

Draw the motion, sculpt the time

The waveform is painted along the trajectory, so you see which part of the sample happens where. The motion curve then lets the source rush, hesitate, freeze mid-air, or run the path backwards.

Lift it off the floor, stretch it wide

One editor, three curves. Elevation lifts the path over your head or drops it to your feet; the width curve spreads the two channels of a stereo file apart like wingtips, opening from a point into a wide wash and closing again.

Sound that leaves your head

True binaural rendering, with distance, air absorption and up to three orders of wall reflections. Dial the reflections deeper for dense, vivid spaces, and set the Doppler shift of moving sources to taste.

Rooms are real, and they are yours

Width, height and depth in metres, with a wall material of your choice — absorption, damping, scatter and RT60. Resize the room or swap concrete for carpet and the reflections, the reverb and every gesture adapt automatically. Rooms save as self-contained folders, samples included.

Every gesture keeps its own strip

Gain, three-band EQ and a send to the shared room reverb, per gesture. Nothing is ever rendered twice: reopen a room and it is instantly ready; tweak a curve and only that one gesture quietly re-renders while you keep working.

Only the part that flies

Drag over the waveform to keep the part of the sound you want, pull the triangles for fades, and slide the whole region along the file. The gesture and its painted trajectory redraw around whatever you keep.