All items tagged with immersive music (10)

NAT Spatial Audio Technology Software Available Through Plugivery Distribution

May 31, 2022 by Joao Martins

NAT Spatial Audio Technology Software Available Through Plugivery Distribution

German company New Audio Technology (NAT) and Plugivery Distribution, have announced a collaboration to make NAT's Spatial Audio Technology products available to sound designers, musicians, producers, and mixing engineers worldwide. With musicians highly invested in mixing to immersive audio formats, NAT's Spatial Audio Designer plug-ins are an affordable range of audio tools for creating and monitoring any surround or spatial audio format with speakers or regular headphones.

L-Acoustics Updates Free L-ISA Studio 2.4 Software with Binaural Rendering of Immersive Audio for Headphones

March 23, 2022 by Joao Martins

L-Acoustics Updates Free L-ISA Studio 2.4 Software with Binaural Rendering of Immersive Audio for Headphones

Call it immersive audio (which is mostly the case in the live sound, broadcast and performance industry), or call it spatial audio, independently of the format used for mixing, users want to control how the result will sound on headphones. L-Acoustics updated its L-ISA Studio software, originally created to allow the creation of immersive audio mixes independently of the target reproduction system, now supporting object-based binaural rendering to headphones from a Mac laptop.

Audio Engineering Society Promotes Second Immersive Audio Academy One-Day Event

June 10, 2021 by Audio Engineering_Society

Audio Engineering Society Promotes Second Immersive Audio Academy One-Day Event

The Audio Engineering Society's second-in-series Immersive Audio Academy offers insights from top producers and researchers in the industry, hands-on immersive music mixing opportunities and more for attendees. Leaders in the field of immersive audio will gather for the next AES Immersive Audio Academy, being streamcast to a global audience on Thursday, June 17 from 9:00am to 6:00pm ET.

May 17, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Cadence Offers MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile Decoders for Tensilica HiFi DSPs

Fraunhofer confirmed that Cadence Design Systems is now offering decoder implementations supporting the new MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile and has joined the MPEG-H Audio System trademark program administered by Fraunhofer. Adding MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile decoding capabilities to Cadence’s industry-leading Tensilica HiFi DSP designs opens up the potential to bring interactive and immersive sound to millions of users worldwide.

Sound Design to Audio Product Design - What Can We Do With Spatial Audio?

May 5, 2021 by Joao Martins

Sound Design to Audio Product Design - What Can We Do With Spatial Audio?

What do we expect exactly from Spatial Sound? A true tri-dimensional representation of sound in space? An effective way to translate virtual acoustics? A limitless soundstage for infinite creativity? What about sound “in your head”? I started to write about this topic with audio product developers in mind. But the questions equally apply to content creators, because basically we all have the same doubts.

Sennheiser AMBEO Soundbar Adds Support for Sony 360 Reality Audio

April 26, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser AMBEO Soundbar Adds Support for Sony 360 Reality Audio

In addition to 3D audio formats Dolby Atmos, MPEG-H and DTS:X, Sennheiser's flagship AMBEO Soundbar now also supports Sony’s 360 Reality Audio, which is directly targeted at music and uses Sony’s object-based 360 Spatial Sound technology, basically an MPEG-H 3D Audio scheme, to place individual sounds in a spherical sound field.

July 24, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Fraunhofer IIS Announces Licensing Efforts for New MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile

Fraunhofer IIS confirmed the release and official adoption of the MPEG-H 3D Audio Baseline Profile. The new profile was designed to exactly meet the business and technical needs of the industry and was announced during the MPEG WG11 131st meeting. Tailored for broadcast, streaming, and high-quality immersive music delivery use cases, the MPEG-H 3D Audio Audio Baseline profile supports channel and object signals and is a subset of the existing Low Complexity profile.

Fraunhofer Software Helps Power Immersive Music Services for Amazon Echo Studio Smart Speaker

February 7, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Fraunhofer Software Helps Power Immersive Music Services for Amazon Echo Studio Smart Speaker

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, the inventor of mp3 and primary developer of AAC, MPEG-H Audio and other MPEG standard audio codecs, revealed that Amazon has become an important music-centric licensee of its MPEG-H audio decoder software, included in the new Echo Studio. MPEG-H is the audio scheme used for new immersive music services including those based on the Sony 360 Reality Audio format.

Immersive Music Streaming: A Fistful of Nothing?

October 24, 2019 by Joao Martins

Immersive Music Streaming: A Fistful of Nothing?

On Tuesday, October 15, in New York, Sony, together with four music streaming services and an important number of music industry partners promoted a press event to announce the new 360 Reality Audio music ecosystem. This follows the presentations made early at CES 2019 and a repeat of the demonstrations at IFA 2019 in Berlin. At this event, Sony announced the upcoming commercial availability of 360 Reality Audio, an immersive audio experience utilizing object-based spatial audio technology.

Sony confirms 360 Reality Audio Immersive Music Experiences on New Amazon Echo Studio

October 16, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Sony confirms 360 Reality Audio Immersive Music Experiences on New Amazon Echo Studio

Sony Corporation announced that 360 Reality Audio content, which offers a new immersive music experience for listeners, will be made available on the new Amazon Echo Studio with Amazon Music HD to customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan later this year. Sony's 360 Reality Audio is an immersive audio experience utilizing MPEG-H object-based spatial audio technology from Fraunhofer IIS.