Dirac has made its most advanced room-correction technology, Active Room Treatment (ART), available in Dirac Live Processor — the newly renamed version of the Dirac Live Room Correction Suite for Windows and macOS. The software went live on June 30, 2026, with an optional 14-day free trial, and existing Room Correction Suite users are being transitioned automatically with their licenses and settings preserved.
The headline for hobbyists is that Dirac Live Processor is a software-only virtual audio processor: it applies correction on the computer you already own, before the signal reaches your speakers or headphones. That means you can run Dirac Live even on a system that has no built-in Dirac support, and it plugs into DAWs and media players via VST, VST3, AAX, and AU formats. With this release the processor now hosts Dirac's full toolkit — Room Correction, Bass Control, and Active Room Treatment — in one place.
Active Room Treatment goes a step past ordinary EQ. Instead of only flattening the frequency response at your seat, it uses your full speaker array as a coordinated system to actively manage room resonances and control how sound decays, aiming for tighter imaging and cleaner bass rather than just a smoother curve. Dirac says it has spread ART across home-audio partners like AudioControl, Denon, Marantz, miniDSP, Monoprice, and StormAudio over the past year; the PC/Mac version now opens it up to anyone with a measurement mic.
Why it matters for tuning: a software processor makes it easy to run before-and-after sweeps on the same rig without swapping hardware. Take your own RTA or impulse measurements at the listening position first, then measure again with ART engaged so you can see exactly what it changed in the decay and low end — not just trust that it sounds better. Because ART leans on multiple speakers working together, correct speaker distances, levels, and polarity matter more than usual, so confirm those before you run the calibration.
Licenses and the free trial are available directly from Dirac. We'll revisit this with measured in-room results once we've run a full set of sweeps through the processor.
