AES70 Python Project Gathers Momentum. Expanding Control Options for Networked Audio and AV Systems

AES70py, a development project for an MIT licensed AES70 Library for Python programming, is making progress and receiving industry support. According to Matt Hardy (DeusO GmbH), the key point for the AES70 Python Project vision is to promote an IT convergence with network audio devices, meeting the pressing need for control systems within existing ecosystems: "AES70py offers a way to make this happen easily. It's also great for manufacturers doing things like automatic testing AES70 devices."

OCA Alliance confirmed that Open Control Architecture (OCA) – an open control and monitoring standard for professional audio and AV media network devices – has been officially standardized on 4 January 2016 by the Audio Engineering Society Standards Committee (AESSC) in the newly published AES70-2015 standard for audio applications of networks - Open Control Architecture.

The OCA Alliance confirmed availability of the OCA MicroDemo demonstration platform to prove that OCA – a common remote control and monitoring language for digital audio networks – can run in lightweight hardware environments. The OCA MicroDemo runs on a 120 MHz Cortex M3 processor and was developed jointly by OCA member companies Focusrite, Attero Tech, and Bosch.