A bad GSM connection on a busy sidewalk, a bullhorn with feedback and a helicopter overhead, or a 1952 rockabilly guitar amp in a recording studio live room:
The Speakerphone audio plug-in gives you authentic speakers of any size together with their natural environments.

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All the walkie-talkies, distant transistor radios, upstairs TV sets, bullhorns, cell phones and guitar cabinets you will ever need. Speakerphone (a plug-in for MacOS and Windows) will add dial tones, operator, static, and you can select from a wealth of ambiences on either the caller or receiver's end.

400 speaker impulse responses, 23 microphones, 106 'Covers' (from blankets to car trunks), 53 Altiverb rooms and outdoor spaces, 5 gigabyte of ambiences and sound FX, and 12 DSP modules from Leslie to GSM compression, conveniently presented to you in well over 500 presets.

Take the tour by watching the video here or scroll down for some audio examples.


Buy now Features Specifications New in 3

LISTEN !

Listen to presets applied on a studio recording.

Features

Check all features, all DSP options explained.

F A Q !

Answers to your questions, background information, see the faq below.

System requirements

Check if the Speakerphone plug-in will run on your system.

PDF Manual

Search and find what you need to know in the Speakerphone 3 pdf manual.

Download

Download Speakerphone.
For registered users only.

Audio examples

Hit one of the buttons below to listen to the Speakerphone preset.

POST voice demo

Speakerphone transforming a normal voice recording into an anouncer including environments.

Megaphone in street
K2 summit to base camp
Stadium PA
Station - cant hear it
Party at the neighbors
Radio in the back of an office
This is your captain speaking
Helicopter intercom - 1q understandable
Helicopter intercom - half understandable
Dry voice

Robot demo

Turning a normal voice recording into a robot.

Central scrutinizer
Female HAL
Larynx
Plastic voice synth robot
Whispering robot
Dry voice

Music vocal demo

Speakerphone mangling Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails

B18 cabinet in bedroom
Babyphone toy
Fedtro Megaphone
Mac SE
Sabina radio
Walkie talkie
Dry vocal recording

NEW IN SPEAKERPHONE 3

Improved automation reliability

  • reducing conflicting situations between presets, automated presets and automation curves.
  • reduction of not found IRs (Speaker, Mic, Cover & Room), inherited from Speakerphone 1 preset/settings, that could resolve to default IRs.
  • removal of the auto level function alltogether, this is replaced by a suggested level area in the input meter.
  • samplebay on/off is now available for automation.
Native apple silicon support

Native Apple silicon

M1 / M2 / M3 & Intel macs are fully supported.

Resizable user interface

New interface

The user interface has been refined and made scalable to ensure Speakerphone with all its controls remains visible and controllable for most.

Speakerphone 3 seemless automation

Smooth and clickless

Speaker, Mic, Cover and Room IR switches are all practically seemless without any clicks, also with automation.

New room IRs in Speakerphone 3 time

New outdoor & car IRs

A street with high office buildings, an outdoor stadium, a village square, a Tesla, a camper van and various tubes are added as impulse repsonse option in the convolution reverb module (the Room module).

Speakerphone 3 input level indicator

New input level meter

The auto level option from Speakerphone 2 has been removed. To ensure the incoming audio is in good balance with the sound generating modules from Speakerphone the input level meter shows a green area for the best input level. You can simply adjust the input level to ensure the presets sound as intended.

New speaker IRs featured in Speakerphone 3

New Speaker IRs

Many new speaker impulse responses have been added to Speakerphone 3. Tiny speakers like the pocket operator mini synth and a digital toy camera and large ones like the QSC KW153 PA Speaker. New phones, computers and portable bluetooth speakers have been added too.

Your choice computer activation or ilok usb key activation

Computer activation

The Speakerphone license can be activated on a computer or on a USB iLok key. The iLok USB key is NO LONGER required.

VST3

VST3 Plug-In

To ensure compatibility with worldclass VST host applications (DAWs) like Ableton Live, Cubase, Nuendo and Digital Performer Speakerphone 3 features a VST3 plug-in.

What did not change in Speakerphone 3

  • Backward compatible. Speakerphone 3 replaces Speakerphone 2. When you open a session/song/project made with Speakerphone 2 (or 1), Speakerphone 3 will open in its place, with the same settings, reading all automation and producing the exact same sound.
    However, sessions/projects/songs saved with Speakerphone 3 will likely not open perfect on Speakerphone 2 workstations.
  • Apart from choosing from the hundreds of presets from the preset browser you can shape and mangle your sound extensively combining the many DSP modules in Speakerphone 3.
  • The 4 GB environment FX sample library you get with Speakerphone remains royalty free to use in any production.
  • With a Speakerphone 3 license you get fixes and support without yearly fees.
  • You have the option to sell your license.

Features

Apart from choosing from the hundreds of presets from the preset browser you can shape and mangle your sound extensively combining the many DSP modules in Speakerphone 3.

Speakerphone 3 user interface showing nice preset with all modules turned ON

Speaker

At the heart of the speaker simulator lies a library of recordings of different speakers, often referred to as Impulse Responses, or IR’s.
When you click a speaker category icon, like the phone or the radio, a browser window appears that lets you select a speaker in that category.
The impulse responses by themselves capture many characteristics, both in frequency and time, of the sampled speaker. The speaker module lets you select a speaker impulse response, and it shows its corresponding photograph. The more info button brings up additional info on the selected speaker impulse response.

Samples

You can build complete environments for the speakers right here, via mouse clicks or MIDI.
Several gigabytes of samples and music are installed with Speakerphone, free for use in your production. 5 tables of twelve samples are accessible at a time for playback via mouse clicks or MIDI.
The samples range from extras like knobs and closing car doors to ambiences and music, and they are used throughout the presets that come with Speakerphone.
You can drag samples from the sample bay to your tracks and vice versa. And you can add your own library as well.

Dry Wet

The Wet Dry control gradually moves between processed and unprocessed (Bypassed) sound in a very elaborate way. A movement from WET to DRY will gradually open up filters, including the speaker IR, and diminish the effects of modules like Distortion and Codec each in a unique way. The overall result of a movement from WET to DRY is a seamless ‘opening’ up of the sound from the complete preset to unprocessed sound. If, for instance, you have your mix sounding from a jukebox in the back of a bar, you can slowly ‘open up’ the sound to full stereo buy dragging the WET/DRY slider. Or click the right most KICK text to make the slider move from wet to dry, automatically, at a speed determined by the speed dial next to the DRY button.

Distortion

Distortion

Emulate a speaker's or amplifier's over modulation. In the distortion module audio is first passed through the Pre EQ: a parametric EQ and a low pass filter with resonance. Next, the signal hits the PRE gain, which typically amplifies so the waveform will become more or less distorted in the next module: the Distortion Type: amp models, wave shapers, all of them are further controlled using the CURVE graph at the bottom of the distortion module. POST-gain controls the distortion's output volume. You can also click the connection-button in between PRE and POST to have post gain automatically decrease when pre gain increases and vice versa.

Room

Room

Convolution reverb, powered by Altiverb, for room, outdoor space, hall, resonant enclosure, and reverb gear simulation. Room creates reverb based on recordings of actual spaces ranging from a railway station hall to the cockpit of a MIG fighter plane. Samples of spring and plate reverbs and even real outdoor streets are available as well.

Cover

Cover

A variety of objects can cover a sound source. Blankets, suitcases, boxes, glass cups, car trunks, walls are just few. The pitch of these resonating little acoustics can be adjusted.

Speakerphone 3 feature Telecom

Telecom

(Cellular) phone connection protocol simulation. Apart from emulating cell phones the codec can be tweaked to make whispering presets, robots and vocal synthesizer effects.

Speakerphone 3 feature Gate

Gate

Classic gate, you can set it to duck or entirely mute the input. This can be used to create connections that drop out, to clean up guitar input, etc.

Speakerphone 3 feature Compressor

Compressor

Emulate the pumping of video cameras, enhance the guitar input signal and there are presets for the extreme types of compression that are present in walkie-talkies and megaphones.

Speakerphone 3 feature EQ Equalizer

EQ

Five types of frequency filters.
Low and High shelving filters, High pass filter and low pass filter and two bands of parametric equalization with adjustable q-factor.
When adjusting, a popup window appears showing all detailed info on the exact frequency and q you are adjusting.

Speakerphone 3 feature EQ Equalizer popup detail
Speakerphone 3 feature Mod Modulation effects like chorus phaser flanger tremolo and vibrato

Mod

The modulation (mod) module offers five types of classic modulation effects, available in the top left popup.
These are: Tremolo, Chorus, Phaser, Flanger or Vibrato.
DEPTH controls the amount of the modulation effect.
SPEED controls how fast the modulation oscillates. Speed can either be set in FREE mode or in SYNC mode. SYNC ties speed to the host sequencer's tempo and displays it with a note value.

Speakerphone 3 feature Radio Tuning AM and FM

Tuning

Simulates the various effects of a radio receiver dial.
Vertical movement of the cross-hairs changes the frequency of inter-modulation side tones, and when the cross hair is moved out of the horizontal center, the reception of the signal worsens (distortion and noise is added).

Speakerphone 3 feature Mic Micrphone module

Mic

Similar to the speaker selector, but here a microphone impulse response can be selected. The available microphone time and frequency characteristics of the microphones depicted, and therefore make it sound as if the selected microphone was used in the result. Use it to make an announcer speak through a typical announcer microphone, or to pick up a guitar cabinet using a classic microphone for the purpose, for instance a Royer.

Speakerphone 3 feature Crush bits

Crush

Word length reduction and sampling rate reduction.
Drag the cross hair down to reduce word length (reduce from 32 bit input to 2 bit output). Move to the left to reduce sampling rate. To maximize aliasing effects the most crude of sample rate conversion algorithms lies beneath the Crush module.

Speakerphone 3 feature Gramophone for Vinyl sound emulation

Gramophone

Gramophone effects simulator.
Influence a pitch curve due to 'Wow' (effect of an off-center hole) and Curve (a bumpy vinyl record). Also Add ticks and crackles that knock holes in the input audio.

Speakerphone 3 feature Leslie rotating speaker

Leslie

This module emulates a Leslie speaker, typically associated with Hammond organs.
A Leslie speaker, on the inside, rotates a horn speaker for the mid to high frequencies, and it rotates a horizontal baffle below a downward facing low frequency woofer. The result is rich rotating sound utilizing the Doppler effect (pitch shifting that can be heard while a sound source moves to or from the listener)

Speakerphone 3 feature Delay creates stereo space

Delay

Mono or stereo feedback delay with a high pass or low pass filter in the feedback loop. The delay can be synced to host tempo, in which case the delay time rotary knobs are exchanged by notes. Clicking on a note then brings up a note-value selector box. The Cross feed parameter determines how much of the left channel signal gets fed into the right channel delay path.

Speakerphone 3 feature LFO to modulate everything bringing patches alive

LFO

Four Low Frequency Oscillators (LFO) and two envelope followers (env) for automated parameter control. Simply click and drag a cable to a parameter that you want to control with the LFO. The speed can be synced to the host's tempo and there is a wealth of different waveforms to choose from.

Specifications

System requirements

macOS 10.14 (Mojave) - macOS 15 (Sequoia)
Speakerphone 3 is not available for Windows yet Windows support will be added later. When you purchase Speakerphone 3 now, you will be able to use Speakerphone 2 on Windows.


more information on system requirements

Plug-In formats

AAX Native
Audio Unit (AU, Mac only)
VST3


All plug-ins are 64 bits and have native support for Apple Silicon and Intel cpu types.
Samples
Speakerphone comes with 5 GB environment samples for authentic speaker simulation.

Request link to downloads page

  • Ableton Live 11-12
  • Cubase 11-13
  • Digital Performer 9-11
  • Logic Pro X-11
  • Nuendo 11-13
  • Pro Tools Ultimate/HD Native/LE2018-2024
  • Reaper 6-7

Backward compatible

Speakerphone 3 replaces Speakerphone 2.

When you open a session/song/project made with Speakerphone 2 (or 1), Speakerphone 3 will open in its place, with the same settings, reading all automation and producing the exact same sound.

Not forward compatible: Sessions/projects/songs saved with Speakerphone 3 will likely not open perfect on Speakerphone 2 workstations.

Activation to computer or iLok USB key

Speakerphone 3 can be activated to:
computer or
iLok USB key (2nd generation or newer)
using the iLok License Manager Application.

The iLok USB key is NOT required for Speakerphone 3. iLok cloud activation is currently not supported.

Speakerphone 2 does require the iLok USB key, v2 simply does not work without this.

macOS
macOS 10.14 (Mojave) or higher
including the latest macOS 15 (Sequoia) and macOS 14 (Sonoma).

Latest Speakerphone 3 requires macOS 10.14 Mojave. On earlier macOS version you can use Speakerhone 2.
For Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) or up use Speakerphone 2.2.2
For Mac OS X 10.8.5 - 10.10 Speakerphone 2.1.6 is recommended
For Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.7 Speakerphone 2.0.5 is recommended
Windows
Speakerphone 3 is not available for Windows yet
Windows support will be added later.
For now Speakerphone 2 (v 2.2.2) is recommended on Windows.
Speakerphone 2 works on Windows 7 or up (incl. Windows 11)
Please note v2 does require the iLok USB key for activation.

Speakerphone 2.0.5 also works on Windows XP
Click on a version for release notes ()

Speakerphone 3.0.6 fixes:
fixed a crash when opening sessions / inserting the plug-in Using Rosetta or on Intel macs.
 
v3.0.5 fixed a crash in the Speakerphone 3 AU (AudioUnit) Plug-In in some DAWs (Digital Performer, Luna, Audacity, Ableton Live, Reaper)
 
New in Speakerphone 3 for macOS:
Improved automation reliability
Native Apple silicon support
New resizable interface
New outdoor & car IRs
New input level meter
New Speaker IRs
Computer activation (no more ilok USB key required)
VST3 Plug-In
Windows support will be added later
Speakerphone 3.0.5 fixes:
fixed crash in the Speakerphone 3 AU (AudioUnit) Plug-In in some DAWs (Digital Performer, Luna, Audacity, Ableton Live, Reaper)
 
New in Speakerphone 3 for macOS:
Improved automation reliability
Native Apple silicon support
New resizable interface
New outdoor & car IRs
New input level meter
New Speaker IRs
Computer activation (no more ilok USB key required)
VST3 Plug-In
Windows support will be added later
New in Speakerphone 3 for macOS:
Improved automation reliability
Native Apple silicon support
New resizable interface
New outdoor & car IRs
New input level meter
New Speaker IRs
Computer activation (no more ilok USB key required)
VST3 Plug-In
Windows support will be added later

Speakerphone 2.2.2 update for macOS release notes:
AAX latency reporting corrected
Speakerphone 2.2.2 update for Windows release notes:
Blank screen in mic/cover/room solved
no more logging in audio thread
VST & AAX latency reporting corrected
VST & AAX plug-ins are 64 bits only (version 2.1.6 is the last Speakerphone 2 in 32 bits).
VST: Nuendo & Cubase: IR automatisation fixed
VST: crash when inserted in multichannel channel is solved
Pro Toos: fixed crashes on HDX hardware
Speakerphone 2.2.1 update for macOS release notes:
Blanc screen in mic/cover/room solved
Audiounit & VST: latency is reported correctly
Mac: User Presets are now stored in /Users/Shared/Audio Ease/Speakerphone
VST: crash when inserted in multichannel channel is solved
Speakerphone 2.2.0 update for macOS release notes:
Pro Toos: fixed crashes on HDX hardware
Speakerphone 2.1.9 update for macOS release notes:
installer improvements
VST & Audio Unit (AU) latency reporting corrected
Speakerphone 2.1.8 update for macOS release notes:
New installer to ensure compatibility with macOS 12 (Monterey)
macOS 64 bits only (version 2.1.6 is the last Speakerphone 2 in 32 bits).
minimal macOS version is now 10.11, on previous macOS versions 2.1.6 can be used.
VST: Nuendo & Cubase: IR automatisation fixed
Windows and popup menus are transparent again on macOS
no more logging in audio thread
Speakerphone 2.1.6 update release notes:
Speakerphone now checks for a new version (at audioease.com) by using https.
Speakerphone 2.1.5 update release notes:
Compatible with Windows 10
Version checking online is allowed again
Audiounit: older sessions are loaded again
Audiounit: latency is reported correctly
fixed an issue for sessions at 96kHz
some VST improvements
Speakerphone 2.1.4 update release notes:
runs in Pro Tools 10.3.10
compatibility issues with Digital Performer 8 fixed
compatibility issues with Cubase 8 & Nuendo 7 fixed
mac: Installer is signed
mac: Installer removes old .dpm plugin
Samplebay drag and drop is possible again
Samplebay Loops play properly
more improvements to sample player
mouse rollover in sample bay works again
midi works in Logic
Audio Suite has bypass button
Audio Suite crash solved
win: Solved a few UI problems
a new sample folder can be selected
several smaller issue were solved
"Mute on stop" problem fixed
Enhancements in operability on consoles, S6 in particular
Cover-pitch issue with audiosuite fixed
Speakerphone 2.1.3 update for Windows release notes:
See Mac 2.1.1 notes below for what is new in 2.1
This update adds 64 bits support to Speakerphone 2 on Windws (including AAX).
And like on Mac, Speakeprhone 2.1 on Windows now requires the iLok 2 key.
Speakerphone 2.1.2 update Mac only release notes:
installer fix
Speakerphone 2.1.1 update Mac only release notes:
This update is fully backward compatible with Speakerphone 2 (and 1).
It reads the presets, settings and automation and sounds the same.
New features:
64 bits
AAX (does require Pro Tools 10.3.8 or up)
New smartphone, tablet and flatscreen TV speaker IRs added !
New preset browser
Factory presets also in host format
Retina display support
Please note:
Mac only, Windows support is in the works, but not ready yet
Speakerphone 2.1 requires the iLok 2 key

Speakerphone 2.0.5 update release notes:
New music samples
Speakerphone 2.0.4 update release notes:
Mac OS X Lion compatibility issues fixed
PC: saving presets works
Fixed: clicking problem when playing some wave files in the sample bay
Fixed: Some parameters are not available in automation
Speakerphone 2.0.3 update Windows only release notes:
The Speakerphone 2.0.3 PC update benefits from the same fixes as the Mac version that was released last week (see below), plus:
[Audiosuite] no more accesviolation erros
PC Installer does not remove user files anymore
Speakerphone 2.0.3 update Mac only release notes:
When "Mute on Stop" is on, the telecom module also mutes
Bypass not saved anymore in Automation Presets
[AU] Midi works now
[AU] in Logic: Plugin windows sticks to its frame now
[Live] Presets window floats on top of the plugin window
[VST] offline processing window can access presets window
Avid Media Composer compatibility
[Cubase 5] sample bay works again
[PT] choosing a Pro Tools presets writes automation
[PT] Compare works again
[PT] adjustments of automation data is correct now
[Audiosuite] no remaining of previous preview in rendered audio
Speakerphone 2.0.2 update release notes:
[vst] Better parameter names in automation
[all] Compatibility with Speakerphone 1 has improved
[installer] Fixed an installer folder privilege problem
[au] Fixed crash in Digital Performer Auval
Speakerphone 2.0.1 update release notes:
Importing SP1 settings in Nuendo & Cubase works correctly now
Fixed bug in preset browser: a single click opens the user section.
Importing Speaker & Room IR Automation data works correctly now*
* a speaker selection bug in Speakerphone 2.0.0 prevented some Speakerphone 1 sessions to come up with the wrong speaker selected. The bug is fixed, but the consequence is that sessions made with speakerphone 2 may load with the incorrect speaker selected, so please double check which speaker is selected in the speaker module.
Speakerphone 2.0.0 update release notes:
World"s first Speakerphone 2 release

Speakerphone 1.1.3 update release notes:
Solves a muting problem introduced by the 1.1.2 update.
Speakerphone 1.1.2 update release notes:
Solves a graphics problem in the Speakerphone 1 interface that occurs in Pro Tools 8 in Mac OS X 10.5 when you use a control surface.
Speakerphone 1.1.1 update Windows only release notes:
This release benefits from the same fixes mentioned in last weeks Speakerphone's 1.1.1 Mac update release notes.
Speakerphone 1.1.1 update Mac only release notes:
Preferences get saved now when not logged in as administrator user
Audio Unit compatible with Sound Track Pro
fixed problems with Mute when stopped in VST
improved on resizing window
improved on popup menus in VST
fixed problem in Codec
overall stability improved
Speakerphone 1.1.0 update Windows only release notes:
This release benefits from the same new features and fixes mentioned in the 1.1.0 Mac version plus it fixes:
compatibility with Sound Forge improved
compatibility control surfaces for Pro Tools improved
fixed right mouse click behavior
Speakerphone 1.1.0 update Mac only release notes:
automation of Speaker IR & Room IR
compatible with latest Pro Tools & Max OS X 10.5 (Leopard
added possibility to turn off auto update checking
low sample rates work correct
name of saved preset comes back
compatibility with Digital Performer Improved
compatibility with Ableton Live improved
fixed some automation issues
fixed some "mute when stopped" problems
Speakerphone 1.0.3 update Windows only release notes:
This release benefits from the same fixes mentioned in the 1.0.3 Mac version
Speakerphone 1.0.3 update Mac only release notes:
preset change faster then ever before!
drag and drop now works without having to hold down any modifier keys
drag and drop from/to Cubase/Nuendo fixed
[AU] can be used with 10.3.9
[VST] Inserts the correct channel IO variant again
Speakerphone 1.0.2 update release notes:
[AU] improved on latency in AudioUnit
[AU] fixed compatibility issues with Logic 8
[VST PC] fixed disappearing interface on vst pc
fixed compatibility issues with Live
[VST PC] fixed some other issues with vst version on pc
removed crashing bug with sample bay
removed crashing bug with menus
fixed several smaller and bigger issues
Speakerphone 1.0.1 update release notes:
fixed dry/wet slider
numerous fixes and improvements on automation
previous/next ir works correct now
[PT] support for control surfaces
[PT] bypass available for automation
[VST mac] improved on vst interface
[VST mac] offline editing works now
[PC] compatible with 16 bits color
numerous smaller bug fixes
Speakerphone 1.0.0 update release notes:
First Speakerphone release ever

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LISTEN !

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Installation

av7 installer damaged
Here's what you can do when the newly downloaded installer fails to run because the macOS reports the downloaded installer failing verification (or reports it is damaged and cannot be opened).
  1. Make sure you use the macOS default 'Archive Utility' to open the downloaded zip file (other utilities could corrupt the installer app while unpacking the zip file).
  2. Please check if there is a security update available for your macOS and please install this.
  3. Open Safari and check if you can visit https://www.audioease.com.
    When you can visit the website in Safari, then please retry downloading the installer. If the download fails to run, you can try using a different browser. Any of the following: Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, will do.
Perhaps the download is broken, in which case a new download with another browser may work. Otherwise the solution may be to use Terminal, a built-in program on the Mac.
  1. Make sure you use the macOS default 'Archive Utility' to open the downloaded zip file (other utilities could corrupt the installer app while unpacking the zip file).
  2. In case that does not solve it, open Terminal. You can use the Mac search at the top right and start typing Terminal. It will appear, click on it to open the program.
  3. Type “unzip” and a space, then drag/drop the zip file into the Terminal window.
  4. Press Enter and the zip file will be unzipped, storing all files on your computer.
Welcome to Speakerphone 2 !

Install iLok software
First please make sure you have installed the latest ilok software from:
www.ilok.com

Get the Speakerphone 2 license
If you do not have the Speakerphone 2 license on your ilok account yet, you can request it here:
www.audioease.com/authorization

Then run the ilok license manager app, log in to your account and choose to activate the Speakerphone 2 license to your iLok (2nd generation or up) key. Once you did this you can install and use Speakerphone 2 on any Mac or PC you connect this ilok key to.

Request a Speakerphone 2 downloads email
To get the latest Speakerphone 2 installer, please request a link to the current downloads page at:
www.audioease.com/download

Full install
Check your email, open the downloads page from the link in the email and then proceed to download the latest first time full Speakerphone 2 installer (a large 4.5 GB download, not the plug-in updater).

Extract the zip file with the OS default tool (macOS: Archive Utility, Windows: choose Extract All...) and then run the Speakerphone 2 installer to install Speakerphone 2 and all samples. The installer will ask you where to install the samples and what plug-ins to install (or at what locations, on Windows) and it will then proceed to install Speakerphone 2 and all samples.

Then open your DAW and you will find Speakerphone 2 is available as effect ready to worldize (futz!) your audio.
Update to latest version 2
To update an installed Speakerphone to the latest version simply request a link to the downloads page and download the latest plug-in updater. The update installer will take care of updating, no need to uninstall or anything. www.audioease.com/download
Follow this guide to remove Speakerphone 2 from your system. Please note you do not need to uninstall when updating Speakerphone 2. The installers will take care of this.

Windows
Simply uninstall Speakerphone 2 via the add/remove software Control Panel.

macOS
To uninstall ASpeakerphone 2 on Mac OS X please delete the Speakerphone plug-ins from here:
Audio Unit:/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/
MAS:/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS/
VST:/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/
AAX:/Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/Plug-Ins/
RTAS:/Library/Application Support/Digidesign/Plug-Ins/
Then remove these folders:
/Applications/Audio Ease/Speakerphone
/Library Application Support/Audio Ease/Speakerphone
/Library/Frameworks/SpeakerPhonePublicSupport.framework


And the Speakerphone 2 preferences file:
/Users/name/Library/Preferences/com.audioease.suite.Speakerphone2.plist *

* Please note Mac OS X hides the Library folder in your user folder (since 10.7). You can go there by hitting the GO menu item in the menu bar when you have a finder window open. Then hold down the option (alt) key and a link to the User Library will appear.

License activation

If you have just purchased an Audio Ease product and received a serial number you can register this here:
www.audioease.com/ed

Why register?
When registered you can access the downloads and immediately get licenses to activate the software.

When you have purchased your software directly at audioease.com there is no serial number. In this situation you can get your licenses directly at:
www.audioease.com/authorization
If you have just purchased at audioease.com or registered a serial number you can immediately get an iLok license for your product.

Simply go here: www.audioease.com/authorization
fill in your registered email address and proceed.
In case your iLok key is lost, stolen or broken we will help you out right away, even in case you have not invested in additional insurances or coverage at ilok.com.

Send a message to support@audioease.com and we will provide you with a 30 days expiring backup license so you can continue your work immediately. A spare iLok USB key is required for this, as the software (Altiverb, Speakerphone and Indoor) requires the ilok usb key. This means the software will not work without an ilok usb key with a license on it.

To resolve this situation permanently you may have to acquire another iLok USB key. We can help here too:
We can send you one at a not-for-our-profit-price, which will normally takes 2-6 weekdays in Europe (6-20 weekdays to the rest of the world), available at: audioease.com/store. Depending on your location purchasing locally might be quicker.
Yes, you can sell / transfer your license to another user.

You can transfer a license from your ilok account to someone else's ilok account (the new owner) by using the iLok License Manager (choose Transfer License...).
Please note: while PACE/ iLok fees apply, there are no fees imposed by Audio Ease.

Do please send a message to support@audioease.com with the name, email address and ilok user account info of both you and the new owner.

We will then transfer the software registration at audioease.com to the new owner, so that they will be able to access all downloads and (future) upgrades.
You can use the software with a single license on more then one computer. Simply connect the ilok usb key with the license on it to a computer and you can install and use the software.

However you can use the software only at one computer at a time.

When you need to run the software in two locations (two rooms / two machines) at the same time this requires two licenses. This means purchasing two copies of the software. We do not offer any second license deals or discounts.

General troubleshooting

Altiverb 8, Speakerphone 3 & Indoor 2 are universal (native Apple silicon and Intel)

360pan suite 3 works fine using Rosetta 2 on the Apple silicon machines. The performance is great.

The latest BarbaBatch, Snapper and Make a Test Tone are all universal applications, supporting both Apple silicon & Intel.

Last update: Dec 6, 2024
In case your iLok key is lost, stolen or broken we will help you out right away, even in case you have not invested in additional insurances or coverage at ilok.com.

Send a message to support@audioease.com and we will provide you with a 30 days expiring backup license so you can continue your work immediately when you have a spare ilok key.

To resolve this situation permanently you may have to acquire another iLok key. We can help here too:
We can send you one at a not-for-our-profit-price, which will normally takes 2 to 5 shipping days in Europe (6-20 days to the rest of the world), available at: audioease.com/store. Depending on your location purchasing locally might be quicker.
Pro Tools states it is not a valid 64 bits plug-ins
Most likely the installer or the plug-in got corrupted in transit. Please download the latest updater installer on the computer you want to use it on. Then move the downloaded zip file on the desktop and there choose to extract it using the Mac OS X default Archive Utility app. Once you did this please run the updater installer from the desktop to install the correct aaxplugin and this should cure the problem.
The aax plug-in can get corrupted when transferred on some external (or network) drives. The plug-in won't validate properly then.
Authorization Wire Exception bad channel id "Speakerphone / Altiverb cannot run, because an error occurred. Encrypted Channel Bad Channel ID (or USB error or frame is an invalid size)"

Authorization Wire Exception invalid size

Errors like these can be solved by downloading and installing the latest ilok software from www.ilok.com. Altiverb, Speakerphone, Indoor and 360pan suite require this software.
Windows Authorization Error: Altiverb 7 Regular cannot run because it is corrupted please try reinstalling the product

This error means the graphics card driver on your system is not up to date. Even when Windows states this is up to date, Altiverb 7 can generate this error and you will find there is a newer driver available (and this will solve this error).

Please try to update your graphics card driver.

Find out what graphics card you have in your system (right click on your desktop, choose change screen resolution, hit advanced settings, that would show you the manufacturer"s name and the model).
Then please go to the manufacturer"s website, hit support/drivers and find the latest driver for your graphics card and download and install this.
Restart your computer.
The problem should be gone now.
The plug-in is installed correctly (Altiverb / Speakerphone / Indoor / 360pan suite) and the ilok software is up to date and still the plug-in cannot be found in Cubase (or Nuendo).

Let's clear Clear the Cubase vst preferences to force a re-scan of all vst plug-ins (in case the plug-in is blacklisted)

  • Remove all plist/xml files with VST in the file name from the Cubase preferences folder, check this post where to find the preferences folder.
  • Then restart your computer.
  • After the restart run Cubase. Cubase will now re-scan all plug-ins and it should load the plug-in again.
If you upgraded to Speakerphone 3, do enable to two newly added parameters for automation.
Pro Tools won't do that automatically for you.

Speakerphone 3 move samples
Yes, of course!
Hit the little triangle icon in the top right corner of the Samplebay module in Speakerphone.
Then from the menu that pops up you can open the current Samples folder. Then move this to an external drive and then in the Speakerphone plug-in open the same menu again and use the CHANGE SAMPLES FOLDER option to point Speakerphone to the new location.
Then quit and open your DAW and from then on Speakerphone should use the samples from the external drive.
Speakerphone 3 move samples
There will be no MAS Speakerphone 3 plug-in.
Before you upgrade to Speakerphone 3 please save the settings of your MAS Speakerphone 2 plug-in instances in your projects as Speakerphone presets (spp files). You can do this in the Speakerphone preset browser.
These will be converted by the Speakerphone 3 installer so you can load your settings into your Speakerphone 3 Audio Unit instances when you replace them. In case in a while you need to turn back to an old project where you have not done that we can provide temporary licenses so you can do this still.

You can also use this handy preset converter app to convert old presets to the new one.
Download Preset Converter app
If Speakerphone 2 is gone after you updated Pro Tools to 2023.3 (or later) and you are on a Apple Silicon Mac (M1/M2/M3 ARM) then you have to open Pro Tools Using Rosetta to get Speakerphone 2 working.

Speakerphone 2 requires Open Using Rosetta on the Apple silicon (M1/M2/M3/etc) macs. Speakerphone 3 adds native support for apple silicon. You can check your upgrade options here.
You need to open Pro Tools using Rosetta in order to use Speakerphone 2.
To ensure Pro Tools opens using Rosetta:
  • open the Finder
  • go to the Applications folder
  • select the Pro Tools app
  • hit get info
  • tick the box to Open Using Rosetta.
Open Pro Tools using Rosetta
In Pro Tools 2024.3.1 & 2024.6 this AAE-9173 error can occur when a clip is played back through the Speakerphone 2.2.2 AAX Plug-In.
AAE-9173
This problem only occurs on Intel macs with Pro Tools 2024.3.1 & 2024.6 and Speakerphone v2 (not v3!).
You can workaround this problem by Updating Pro Tools to 2024.10 or up.
If updating Pro Tools is no option, then you can try these workarounds:
  • Increasing the H/W Buffer Size in the Pro Tools Playback Enging settings
  • Disabling Dynamic Plug-in Processing in the Pro Tools Playback Engine settings
  • Disabling Optimize Performance at Low Buffer Sizes in the Pro Tools Playback Engine settings
  • Or reverting to an earlier Pro Tools (in Pro Tools 2024.3 this error does not occur).
Pro Tools playback engine settings to prevent the AAE-9173 error
By granting this directory read & write permissions for all users an admin user can enable all users on Windows to use the Speakerphone VST (or AAX) plug-in:
C:\ProgramData\Audio Ease\Speakerphone

Without setting this Speakerphone will crash when a non-admin user tries to use the plug-in.
The challenge/response hard disk authorization is only available in the older (32 bits only) Speakerphone 2.0.5.
You are free to use this one instead of the latest, the 2.0.5 installer is available from the downloads page.

We strongly discourage running this old Speakerphone 2. This version will not be updated anymore. We recommend to use the latest Speakerphone 2.1. This one does require the iLok (2nd generation or up) key yes. Whenever your ilok key breaks or you loose it, we will always help you (supply a new license for a replacement key).
Most likely the Speakerphone 2.1 installer removed the resources from an older Speakerphone 2.0.5 installation however the installer failed to remove the Speakerphone 2.0.5 RTAS plug-in. When Pro Tools 10 now loads the Speakerphone 2 RTAS you get this error message. Then later Pro Tools scans the AAX and decides not to load the RTAS anymore.

Solution:
We need to fix this in the installer of course, but when you delete the Speakerphone.dpm (the RTAS plug-in) from: /Library/Application Support/Digidesign/Plug-Ins/ this error message will be gone.