Zirkonium Mk Iii - a Toolkit for Spatial Composition

Zirkonium is a set of Mac OSX software tools to aid the composition of spatial music; the software allows composers to design multiple spatial trajectories with an intuitive GUI and facilitates arranging them in time. According to the provided trajectory information, the actual audio signals can then be rendered in real-time for 2D or 3D loudspeaker systems. For developing the latest version of Zirkonium, we focused on improving the aspects of usability, visualization, and compatibility. Consequently, the software structure and the GUI were drastically redesigned, and a number of functionalities, such as parametric trajectory creation, automatic interpolation, event-filtering, are newly implemented. Furthermore, the integrated SpatDIF library enables the reuse of spatial trajectories, created by Zirkonium, in other software.