All items tagged with IBC2016 (16)

3D Sound Labs Launches Spatial Audio SDK High-Order-Ambisonics Solution for Mobile 360° VR Player

October 28, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

3D Sound Labs Launches Spatial Audio SDK High-Order-Ambisonics Solution for Mobile 360° VR Player

3D/VR audio specialists, 3D Sound Labs, announced the availability of the latest version of its VR Audio Kit, an Ambisonics SDK optimized for 360° mobile players. This technology has been jointly presented in September at IBC 2016 in Amsterdam together with solution provider for content delivery Viaccess Orca. The demo of a 360° VR mobile video player with High-Order Ambisonics (HOA) audio, running on a smartphone, was playing a 4K 360° video along with a compressed 3rd order Ambisonics audio stream.

ALC NetworX Extends Audio Networking Interoperability with Free RAVENNA-2-SAP Converter Tool

October 19, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

ALC NetworX Extends Audio Networking Interoperability with Free RAVENNA-2-SAP Converter Tool

As the AES67 interoperability standard continues to gain traction, so the need for tools to facilitate interoperability increases. ALC NetworX, developers of the high performance RAVENNA audio networking technology, is therefore pleased to announce the release of RAV2SAP, an extremely useful RAVENNA-to-SAP freeware conversion tool designed to help connect RAVENNA devices to other AES67 devices.

Broaman and Optocore Expand Route66 Router Series for Critical Signal Distribution Applications

September 23, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Broaman and Optocore Expand Route66 Router Series for Critical Signal Distribution Applications

At this year’s IBC 2016, BroaMan/Optocore found the perfect platform from which to springboard its new Route66 family of routers. The company introduced three new versions to the Route66 signal router range, adding increased flexibility and efficiencies. The German company carried on where they left off at the NAB 2016 show, where they introduced the new Route66 AutoRouter concept, closing the ring automatically once a mobile stagebox is added or removed.

Free Neutrino Plug-in Unleashes New iZotope Audio Processing Technology

September 16, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Free Neutrino Plug-in Unleashes New iZotope Audio Processing Technology

iZotope has released a new free plug-in that offers a glimpse into the company’s newest mixing technology, while helping studios to create better-balanced mixes without sacrificing dynamics. Neutrino is designed to improve the overall spectral balance of an entire mix by making subtle changes to each individual track on which it’s used, adding balance, clarity, and focus. More products based on the technology will be announced soon.

Sennheiser Introduces AMBEO VR Mic Compact Ambisonics Microphone

September 15, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Introduces AMBEO VR Mic Compact Ambisonics Microphone

High-quality 3D audio that eliminates the boundaries between playback and reality – this is the promise of the AMBEO VR MIC that was showcased by Sennheiser at IBC 2016. Up until now, VR productions had to record immersive audio with quite complicated microphone set-ups. The AMBEO VR Mic puts everything into a compact and easy-to-use handheld – making it an ideal tool for any professional VR and spatial audio production. The microphone will become commercially available in November 2016.

Yamaha Dante Products To Support AES67 Audio Network Interoperability

September 13, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Yamaha Dante Products To Support AES67 Audio Network Interoperability

At the IBC 2016 show in Amsterdam, virtually every manufacturer was announcing support for IP interfaces, with AES67 being the common reference in terms of audio, even if supporting one of the wider reaching AoIP protocols, like Dante, Ravenna, or Livewire, among others. Yamaha has announced that it will successively update Dante products to support the AES audio-over-IP interoperability standard, allowing Yamaha products equipped with Dante networking capability to communicate with Ravenna and other audio networks via AES67.

Riedel Communications Reinforces Market Reach with ASL and DELEC Acquisitions

September 12, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Riedel Communications Reinforces Market Reach with ASL and DELEC Acquisitions

In the digital/IP age, the intercom market expanded also into media distribution and infrastructure. The companies who understood that strategic reach are now the dominant players. Following several other acquisitions in the intercom segment, at the IBC 2016 show, Riedel Communications announced the acquisition of ASL Intercom BV, from The Netherlands and DELEC Audio und Videotechnik, from Germany. With those acquisitions, Riedel essentially expanded its engineering resources considerably.

Blackmagic Design Makes a Grand Entrance Into Professional Audio with Acquisition of Fairlight

September 12, 2016 by Joao Martins

Blackmagic Design Makes a Grand Entrance Into Professional Audio with Acquisition of Fairlight

As reported back in July 2016, Australian technology development company Fairlight.AU was actively seeking a buyer for its Professional Audio technology and intended to focus on licensing its existing generic user-interface technologies. At IBC 2016, the largest company in broadcast and professional video technologies from Australia, Blackmagic Design, confirmed the acquisition, together with many other spectacular announcements.

Technica Del Arte Launches uMi USB Microphone Interface at IBC 2016

September 12, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Technica Del Arte Launches uMi USB Microphone Interface at IBC 2016

A highlight of Technica Del Arte’s presence at IBC 2016 was the launch of uMi, a professional location broadcast and recording USB microphone interface, designed with the mobile reporter and musician in mind. Compact, robust, flexible, multi-platform and delivering 24-bit/192kHz audio quality for all professional applications, the compact uMi microphone was designed in response to a number of key requests from users of Technica Del Arte’s popular LUCI reporter software.

JoeCo Launches BLUEBOX Workstation Interface Recorders

September 9, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

JoeCo Launches BLUEBOX Workstation Interface Recorders

Set to raise the standard of DAW-based recording set-ups, the BLUEBOX range of Workstation Interface Recorders is officially launching from JoeCo at IBC 2016. The new range combines a superior multi-channel USB 2.0 DAW interface with high quality preamps on every channel, with the reliability of JoeCo’s range of 24-bit/96kHz Blackbox Recorders, used as on-board backup recording, or as a stand-alone, live, multi-channel audio acquisition recorder connected to a DAW for live mixdown.

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