Holophonix Takes Immersive Sound a Step Further at ISE 2024

At the 2024 Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show in Barcelona, Holophonix (Booth 7G200) will debut its new 2.2 software version for all its immersive platforms – including hardware processors, and the Holophonix Native app for macOS – plus a new touring-ready hardware processor, called Holophonix Ultra. The Holophonix Ultra offers higher performances for real-time spatialization, with up to 512 inputs and outputs, an embedded touch screen, redundant power supplies, and more.

Holophonix is now officially recognized as a ‘technical services provider’ as specified in September 2023 by the French National Commission of the ‘Label Prestataire de Service du Spectacle Vivant’. This new designation allows the Company to provide equipment rentals, technical services, and production services for immersive sound projects through a new dedicated Rental and Services department.

Holophonix is now a separate entity from French loudspeaker manufacturer Amadeus, and has a new Director, Frédéric Biessy. Created in 2017 by Gaëtan Byk in coordination with leading French research institutions CNRS and IRCAM, Holophonix has now become its own legal entity with dedicated resources, and is seeking capital with a first round of financing to accelerate the company’s growth and product deployment. Holophonix is now a startup with impressive breakthroughs in hardware and software design and adoption throughout the world.

The Festival d'Avignon, one of the world's most important international events for contemporary performing arts, has chosen Holophonix and Amadeus to re-equip the prestigious main presentation area at the Festival, the Courtyard of Honor at the Palace of the Popes. The two French companies have delivered new hardware and software technology supporting the live performances including the soon to be released "Colonnes d’Avignon" (Avignon Columns' speaker array).

Coordinated by IRCAM Research Centre in collaboration with Amadeus and VRTUOZ, ‘Continuum’ is a 3-year research project, paving the way to new augmented sonic experiences for the performing arts field. Under this framework, the project intends to create a software solution for modeling room acoustic impulse response at high resolution, a hybrid reverb engine, and active acoustic enhancement systems for performing arts venues, all of which will be available in the Holophonix environment.

Immersive and spatial applications dominate the conversations and are predominantly featured inside the sound demo rooms at ISE 2023 in Barcelona. Appropriately, Amadeus has debuted a new 2.1 software version for its immersive platforms – Holophonix Servers, and the Holophonix Native app for macOS – plus two new configurations for its hardware processor offering 128 outputs and 64 outputs. The new 2.1 software update version is free for all users.

Available as an hardware processor and now as a native macOS app, the Holophonix spatial sound processor from French audio equipment manufacturer Amadeus, has been evolving since its original introduction and is now proven in multiple high profile productions. Unveiled originally in 2018 at the Frankfurt Prolight+Sound trade show, and commercially available since January 1, 2019, the Holophonix spatial sound processor received many new features and improvements, according to requests and needs expressed by its users.