Spacemap Go vs Sub Align
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spacemap Go
Design and mix multichannel audio installations with an intuitive iPad interface. This tool offers powerful spatial sound capabilities for live and automated workflows, integrating with popular DAWs and tracking systems. It allows for flexible loudspeaker configurations and reconfigurable systems.
- Intuitive iPad interface
- Spatial sound design and mixing
- Live and automated workflows
- Integration with DAWs and tracking systems
- Scalable and configurable loudspeaker setups
- Real-time edits and panning
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Spacemap Go is a spatial sound design and mixing tool that leverages the processing power of the Meyer Sound GALAXY Network Platform in an intuitive iPad interface. ACCESSIBLE & INTUITIVE With Spacemap Go, anyone can design both simple and sophisticated multichannel installations without specialized training. With thousands of GALAXY processors worldwide, Spacemap Go has the widest reach of any spatial sound design and mixing tool. No other sound design tool offers so much power and control, right at your fingertips. LIVE & AUTOMATED WORKFLOWS Spacemap Go works seamlessly in live workflows, providing the power to make edits and plot panning in real time with just a swipe of a finger. The app supports General Purpose OSC mapping and RTTrPM protocols, for integration with leading DAWs including Ableton Live, AVID Pro Tools, MOTU Digital Performer, Reaper, and Apple Logic Pro and real-time tracking systems from QLab, BlackTrax, and others. SCALABLE & CONFIGURABLE If you can dream it, you can build it: Unlike other spatial sound platforms, Spacemap Go can be used with any loudspeaker configuration, not just those defined by a manufacturer or the system designer. Once deployed, a system is infinitely reconfigurable. TRUSTED & FUN For decades, Spacemap technology has powered the world’s most complex sound productions, from Cirque du Soleil to Broadway. Now, those same creative capabilities are available to every audio pro, whether you design soundscapes for theatre, concerts, sound art installations, or houses of worship. Spacemap Go provides unprecedented ease and creativity in spatial audio design, liberating sound designers to focus on the art of their craft without the burden of complicated interfaces and confusing algorithms.
Sub Align
This application helps users calculate audio system alignments for venues. It determines phase and SPL differences, and generates visual representations of sound levels and planes based on user-defined parameters.
- Calculate phase difference
- Calculate SPL
- SPL Plane visualization
- SPL Section visualization
- Relative level visualization
- Venue and environment property input
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Set the positions of the mains and subwoofer, size of the venue, environment properties and needed alignment. Application calculates: - phase difference at the audience from the beginning to the end of the venue - SPL at the audience from the beginning to the end of the venue - SPL Plane - SPL Section - Relative level Plane - Relative level Section Implementation of the original Merlijn van Veen calculator.
Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Spacemap Go at 6 against Sub Align's 1. On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Spacemap Go against 5.0 for Sub Align. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spacemap Go has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Spacemap Go | Sub Align |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Meyer Sound | Pavel Smokotnin |
Customer experience
Spacemap Go
Sub Align
In-app purchases
Spacemap Go
No in-app purchases
Sub Align
No in-app purchases


