Release 25 October 2026 4 min read

Orbit Lite 1.3.2 Beta — Binaural Rooms, and Now on Intel Macs

The Orbit Lite 1.3.2 beta lets you choose the room you hear binaural in, or build your own. Plus simpler Apple Spatial Audio controls, Speaker Arrays, redesigned Preferences, and Orbit Lite on Intel Macs for the first time.

The Orbit Lite 1.3.2 beta is out now. You can now choose the room you hear binaural in, the Apple Spatial Audio controls are simpler, and Orbit Lite runs on Intel Macs as well as Apple Silicon.

If you’re on the beta channel, the update should be waiting for you. If you’re not, you’ll find the beta just below the stable build in your account portal.

Binaural rooms

Binaural has always put you in front of the speakers. Now you choose the room they’re in: Small Studio (the default), Control Room, Large Room, or Off.

The Binaural panel in Preferences ▸ Audio & Output: room cards for Off, Small Studio (the default, selected), Control Room and Large Room, each with a drawing of the room, and a New Custom Room… card

The room stays put as you turn your head. Every room plays at the same level as Off, so switching changes the room, not the volume, and you’re comparing the space rather than reacting to it getting louder. Switching is smooth, with no click.

In Binaural mode, a room chip in the footer shows the room you’re in. Click it for a menu of every room, your own included.

Build your own

Start from any room, set its Room (−6 to +6 dB) and Tone on two knobs, and give it a name. Right-click a custom room to edit or delete it.

The New Custom Room sheet: a name, a room to start from (Control Room chosen), then the Room knob from Drier to Roomier and the Tone knob from Darker to Brighter

Binaural also has about 3 dB less low end below 150 Hz than before.

Simpler Apple Spatial Audio

The Apple Spatial menus in the footer are now Music | Cinema, a Level slider, and two switches: Head Tracking and Personalised. Together the switches choose the same four modes as before, without the guesswork.

Orbit Lite's footer in Apple Spatial mode: Music and Cinema buttons and a Level slider, with the Head Tracking and Personalised switches on the row below

Speaker Arrays (beta)

For rooms with more speakers than the mix has channels, Preferences ▸ Speaker Arrays chooses which speakers play each channel. It came to Orbit in 1.5.9, and now it’s in Orbit Lite.

Orbit Lite's Speaker Arrays preferences: a custom 10.1.4 room of 15 speakers carrying a 5.1.4 mix, with Left, Right and both surrounds each played by a two-speaker array and the wides and side surrounds drawn into those arrays around the listener

Redesigned Preferences

Preferences has a new design to match Orbit’s. Audio & Output holds the new Binaural panel with the room cards. Account now sits just above About and shows your email address masked, for example s••••@mail.com.

Now on Intel Macs

Orbit Lite now runs on Intel Macs as well as Apple Silicon, in beta. Everything above works on both, with one exception: Apple Spatial Audio isn’t offered on Intel.

Also in this beta

The loading screen no longer shows your email address.
On the Welcome and licence screens, the background now reaches the top of the window.

Everything that’s changed is in What’s New.

Requirements: macOS 14 or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel.

Already own Orbit Lite? The beta is in your account portal, just below the stable build. New here? Orbit Lite is a one-time £35 for Mac, iPad and iPhone, with a 14-day free trial.

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— The Orbit Spatial Team

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