Studio Forge – Recording Studio Generator for Blender
Layout engine for pro recording studios with gear and cabling
Studio Forge builds a complete professional recording studio in Blender from a layout, not from a single model: rooms, doors and windows, acoustic treatment, lighting, cable routing, and every piece of gear that belongs in each room. Pick a layout from the picture gallery, a hip-hop flagship with control room, live room, vocal booth, producer room, lounge and machine room, a tracking studio, a mastering suite, a podcast room, an Atmos mix stage or a whole studio complex, then change anything.
Any floor plan, one click
Hip-hop flagship, tracking studio, producer suite, studio complex, podcast room and Atmos stage. Each layout is a different set of rooms, doors and glass.
Four lighting moods
Cove LEDs, downlights, accent strips, neon and the on-air lamp follow Recording, Mixing, Lounge and Showcase.
Finishes and 16 PBR walls
Oak, black-out, industrial, walnut, white and velvet looks, with plywood, concrete, tile, stone and planks on the walls.
Surprise: a new studio every time
Press Surprise and the layout, rooms, gear, acoustics and cable runs are all planned again from a new seed.
The layout engine
- Rooms attach to each other by side and alignment, so any floor plan can be described; doors, splayed view windows, glass walls, open arches and cable passes are derived from the room kinds
- Ten layout templates, six finishes, six genres and four lighting moods; every seed gives a new studio
- Edit each room: size, ceiling, floor, walls, connection to its neighbour, console size, monitors, racks, couch, instruments, treatment
Automatic acoustics
- Corner bass traps, first-reflection absorbers calculated by the mirror method, a ceiling cloud over the listening position, quadratic-residue and skyline diffusers, slat walls, foam booths, curtains and baffles
- A reverberation report per room (Sabine RT60 at 500 Hz against the target of the room kind)
Real wiring
- Floor trenches with steel lids and separate audio, power and data lanes, cable passes through the double walls, wall outlets with conduit risers, tie-line wall boxes, hanging cables with plugs that lie on the floor and drop into open hatches
- A power and circuit estimate from the gear that is in the studio
Lighting
- Indirect cove LEDs, downlights, track spots, LED panels, accent strips behind the slats, pendants, neon and red on-air lamps, all dimmed by the lighting mood
Gear and furniture (invented brands modeled on real gear types)
- Large-format consoles, controllers, flush mains, nearfields, subwoofers, racks with patchbays, tube and dynamic microphones on stands, workstations, grand and upright pianos, drum kits, amps, sofas, desks, plaque walls and plants
- PBR photo textures from Poly Haven (CC0)
Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.
Install in under a minute (Blender 4.2+)
- In Blender open Edit › Preferences › Get Extensions.
- Open the arrow menu at the top right and choose Install from Disk.
- Pick the downloaded zip. Do not unzip it.
Questions
Which Blender versions are supported?
Blender 4.2 and newer. It is tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.
Details
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Blender
- 4.2 or newer
- Tested on
- 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS
- Render engines
- Cycles, EEVEE
- Category
- Modeling
- Download
- 29.2 MB zip
- License
- GPL v3