All items tagged with Dolby Atmos (283)
Merging Technologies' Pyramix 15 Takes Flagship DAW to a Whole New Level
March 12, 2025 by Joao Martins

Merging Technologies' Pyramix 15 Takes Flagship DAW to a Whole New Level

The software DAW market was always a highly competitive space, where many outstanding products have disappeared over the years. Pyramix survived against all odds, and now reappears with renewed strength. Following more than two years of development, Pyramix 15 was released full of new features and enhancements, starting with a completely redesigned interface and a new Mixer with upgraded Strip and Bus Tools, ARA2 support, enhanced monitoring, re-engineered Merging VS3 plugins, a new video engine, and much more.
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General Motors Introduces Dolby Atmos Across its Entire 2026 EV Lineup
March 11, 2025 by audioXpress Staff

General Motors Introduces Dolby Atmos Across its Entire 2026 EV Lineup

Dolby Laboratories and General Motors announced that Dolby Atmos will be supported as an available feature across Cadillac's entire 2026 electric vehicle lineup. This will include the 2026 Escalade IQL, Escalade IQ, Lyriq-V, Optiq, Vistiq, and more. As previewed at CES 2025, select 2025 models will also receive Dolby Atmos through over-the-air software updates. Dolby reports over 2 million Dolby Atmos-enabled cars already on the roads.
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CES 2025 First Impressions and Audio AI
January 16, 2025 by Joao Martins

CES 2025 First Impressions and Audio AI

A Celebration of the Art of the Possible. CES 2025 was extremely successful. Even with the impression of fewer people because of the show being even more dispersed. In this first impressions report we discuss how Edge-AI (on-device) is transforming what is possible in audio processing. And of course there was MagSafe and Qi2. USB4. Bluetooth LE Audio. Auracast. Wireless Multichannel. And much more. This is necessarily a brief first impressions editorial to follow up on a very intense edition of CES, where the business-to-business aspects of the show have intensified as predicted.
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Texas Instruments Unveils New Automotive Audio Processors at CES 2025
January 8, 2025 by Joao Martins

Texas Instruments Unveils New Automotive Audio Processors at CES 2025

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced new integrated automotive chips to enable safer, more immersive driving experiences at any vehicle price point. A highly integrated automotive Arm-based microcontroller (MCU) and processor with TI’s vector-based C7x digital signal processor (DSP) core to achieve industry-leading processor performance. And TI’s new audio amplifier is the industry’s first with one-inductor (1L) modulation technology, allowing it to achieve Class-D performance with half the number of inductors.
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Interview: Andreas Ehret - The Road to Dolby Atmos
December 31, 2024 by Joao Martins

Interview: Andreas Ehret - The Road to Dolby Atmos

A fascinating conversation with Andreas Ehret, Senior Director, Automotive at Dolby Laboratories, recapping his career and personal journey prior to and with Dolby, through truly pivotal moments in audio history. In this exchange we learn how Dolby Atmos evolved from the ultimate movie soundtrack format into the heart of consumer experience - for the very first time successfully challenging stereo reproduction. And how Dolby evolved its business model to become today's indispensable technology partner to both the media and the automotive industry.
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Fasetto to Promote Sound Over Power Lines Audio Solutions at CES 2025
December 18, 2024 by Joao Martins

Fasetto to Promote Sound Over Power Lines Audio Solutions at CES 2025

Fasetto, the latest company to bet on signal distribution over power lines, will exhibit its expanded Audio Cu solutions at CES 2025. Fasetto says it has overcome all obstacles of moving data cleanly over the power lines in all environments, a feat that took many years to achieve. Fasetto is currently offering Audio Cu adapters for home audio, but also for DJ controllers, and an SoC for embedded systems, which can be licensed for integration in TVs and professional audio systems.
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Cleer Audio Introduces ARC3 True Wireless Open-Ear Earbuds with Smart Case
October 24, 2024 by Joao Martins

Cleer Audio Introduces ARC3 True Wireless Open-Ear Earbuds with Smart Case

Cleer Audio is pushing further the possibilities of true wireless open-ears, with a flexible ear hook hinge design using the latest Qualcomm S5 platform. The new Cleer ARC3 open-ear model now includes voice control, wireless charging, an LCD touchscreen smart case, 50 hours of battery life, and more. The new Cleer ARC3 earbuds are also equipped with Dolby Atmos optimization with Dolby head tracking for immersive sound, aptX Lossless and Snapdragon Sound Certification, apart from supporting LDAC hi-res wireless audio.
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New Dolby Europe Reference Atmos Studios Equipped with Genelec Monitoring Systems
October 23, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

New Dolby Europe Reference Atmos Studios Equipped with Genelec Monitoring Systems

With Dolby Atmos expanding from cinemas to home cinema, music, and automotive audio, the new Dolby Europe facility in Nuremberg, Germany, needed to provide a reference environment and technical capabilities to handle all these different application scenarios. With the move to a new building, the company took the opportunity to augment its development and testing facilities with both a mixing lab and a critical listening lab in its new, larger location. When it came to the monitoring systems in these important spaces, Genelec was the brand of choice.
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Sonos Unveils New Arc Ultra Soundbar Featuring Sound Motion Technology
October 16, 2024 by Joao Martins

Sonos Unveils New Arc Ultra Soundbar Featuring Sound Motion Technology

Sonos announced Sonos Arc Ultra, a new premium soundbar that also debuts the new Sound Motion transducer technology that finally leverages some of the original Mayht patents. Part of the new generation of advanced designs that the Sonos engineering team is creating, the Sonos Arc Ultra is able to reinvent what a premium soundbar is capable of doing. With the new soundbar, Sonos also introduced Sub 4 with a refreshed design, both systems tightly integrated with Sonos app updates that deliver a significant progress in performance.
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IK Multimedia Launches iLoud Micro Monitor Pro Immersive Bundle 11
October 14, 2024 by Joao Martins

IK Multimedia Launches iLoud Micro Monitor Pro Immersive Bundle 11

Expanding on its studio monitor bundles for immersive configurations, IK Multimedia announced the iLoud Micro Monitor Pro Immersive Bundle 11, now shipping from IK's online store and select dealers. Priced under $/€3,000, this brand-new offering incorporates IK's latest addition to the iLoud monitor line-up, the Micro Monitor Pro, and provides the most cost-effective monitoring solution for anyone interested in immersive audio.
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