So I have a 7.1.4 monitoring system and I am mixing in Atmos, surround and Third Order Ambisonics formats.

How can I playback those files in Windows 10 or Mac OS11 without using a DAW?

What methods of listening to 3D/Surround mixes do you use?

I'm curious as well. I'm playing around with Atmos in ProTools and headphones, I just downloaded the Atmos Renderer and everything. I did my first render out of ProTools and can play the larger .atmos files back in the renderer no problem. I decided the bounce out an mp4 version of it, but have no freaking clue how I would send that to a client for revisions.

I can't find any way to play that mp4 back on my mac in atmos. Unfortunately I'm still on Mojave on the mac, so I can't download Apple Music. I tried sending the mp4 to my iPad and iPhone but you can't bring files into Apple Music I guess...

I'm kind of lost here. I've got my head around the workflow and how to get it working with the Dolby renderer. This is going to be a worthless endeavor to me if there's no easy way to send a file to a client to hear it. If Dolby can render samples on their website, this shouldn't be that difficult...

Hey there

You can use Rogue Amoeba’s loopback to do that

Article from ProTools Experts explaining how (scroll down as the first part is for a DANTE virtual network solution, also works)

https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/pro...ostly-hardware

Best

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I've read that article twice, I'll have to read it a few more times if I actually decide to do an Atmos speaker setup here. That was the next troubling thing in this whole equation: there's not really a supported way for me to play Atmos music through my mac and listen with an actual Atmos speaker setup... This whole process gets more and more rediculous ! Looks like aside from the Rogue Amoeba idea (which I still don't understand that well, but it seems like it works), I would have to buy a newer Apple TV 4k and hook it up to some sort of Dolby receiver. So on top of everything else, I'm going to have to spend a few thousand more just to listen to Atmos music through my speakers?

I went down the receiver rabbit hole. Seems like the TONEWINNER AT-300 is a great, affordable option (AKA the only thing I could remotely afford after spending more than $10k on an Atmos mixing setup). It's got XLR outputs and no build in amps. Even if I grabbed that, I'm not sure how I would switch the speakers between my mixing Atmos interface and the external receiver/apple tv combo. Could I just mult the feeds out of a patch bay to the speakers? Could I run the speaker outputs from the Tonewinner into the separate interface I use to mix Atmos and route them to the speakers that way. Ugh.

I'm getting more and more discouraged by the day. Maybe just overwhelmed more than anything. I'm still hacking away at this, but it seems like every day I find out it's going to cost thousands more than I thought it would.