All items tagged with spatial audio (260)
CODA Audio Opens Space Hub Immersive Demonstration Facilities
March 31, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

CODA Audio Opens Space Hub Immersive Demonstration Facilities

Following the successful launch of its SPACE HUB Immersive Processor at the recent Tonmeistertagung exhibition in Düsseldorf, CODA Audio has announced the creation of new dedicated ‘Immersive Audio’ facilities at the company’s headquarters in Hannover. The demonstration rooms are essential to showcase CODA's linear–phase loudspeakers with the SPACE Immersive System Solution and these become one of the most important advantages in multichannel 3D audio configurations.
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Dear Reality Software Production Bundle for Spatialization and Binaural Rendering
March 30, 2022 by Joao Martins

Dear Reality Software Production Bundle for Spatialization and Binaural Rendering

Immersive audio specialist Dear Reality has been refocusing on production tools for spatial audio applications, including binaural rendering of those sources for regular headphones. To address growing requirements in that field, Dear Reality launched a plugin bundle to enhance any stereo production with a simplified mixing workflow and adding spatial audio. The bundle combines the dearVR MIX virtual mix room plugin with stereo music spatializer dearVR MUSIC.
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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.
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Dolby Announces Dolby Atmos Personalized Rendering beta for Immersive Mixing Using Headphones
March 17, 2022 by Joao Martins

Dolby Announces Dolby Atmos Personalized Rendering beta for Immersive Mixing Using Headphones

Monitoring Dolby Atmos immersive content through headphones using binaural rendering of all the complex, object-based and multichannel information is both a challenge and an attractive option for audio engineers and content professionals. With strong momentum towards Dolby Atmos and spatial audio, Dolby decided to accelerate it's Personalized Head-Related Transfer Function (PHRTF) initiative, and announced beta availability of the new Dolby Atmos Personalized Rendering app and service.
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Summit Wireless Technologies Changes Name to WiSA Technologies
March 11, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Summit Wireless Technologies Changes Name to WiSA Technologies

Summit Wireless Technologies reported its fourth quarter and full year 2021 financial results and use the conference call to announce the change to WiSA Technologies, Inc. The name change reflects the company's strategy to leverage its core technology into new consumer market segments in 2022, while maintaining its Wireless Speaker and Audio Association independent role to promote WiSA ecosystems for consumers, retailers and WiSA Association members.
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DSP Concepts Launches TWS Toolkit Powered by Audio Weaver
March 4, 2022 by Joao Martins

DSP Concepts Launches TWS Toolkit Powered by Audio Weaver

DSP Concepts announced the availability of a new toolkit for True Wireless Stereo (TWS) earbuds powered by its Audio Weaver development platform. The toolkit features a reference design optimized to run on the Cadence Tensilica HiFi 5 DSP in partnership with Airoha, a MediaTek subsidiary and manufacturer of low-power TWS Systems on Chip (SoCs). The development kit also includes a reference design with a fully operational earbud prototype designed by Knowles.
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Dirac Takes Sudio E2 TWS Earbuds a Step Further with Virtuo Spatial Audio
March 3, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Dirac Takes Sudio E2 TWS Earbuds a Step Further with Virtuo Spatial Audio

Swedish digital audio processing pioneer Dirac and Sudio, the Swedish consumer electronics design house, announced a collaboration on Sudio’s new flagship E2 true wireless stereo earbuds, featuring Dirac Virtuo spatial audio. Founded in 2012, Sudio sits firmly at the center of Sweden’s visionary audio tech scene, and this collaboration with Dirac for the cutting-edge Sudio E2 earphones reflects the companies’ unrivaled strengths in combining breakthrough sound performance and elevated product design.
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R&D Stories: The Arrival of Spatial Room Correction Technology
March 2, 2022 by Lars-Johan Brannmark

R&D Stories: The Arrival of Spatial Room Correction Technology

In this exclusive article for audioXpress, Lars-Johan Brännmark (Chief Scientist, Dirac Research AB) describes an approach to the challenge of applying DSP room correction to complex multichannel setups, intended for immersive audio reproduction. Instead of one filter applied to a single channel, he proposes a solution where all speakers work to optimize the reproduction of each input channel in an optimal way. This article was originally published in audioXpress, December 2021.
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DiGiCo and d&b audiotechnik Partner on Immersive Audio Technology Integration
March 2, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

DiGiCo and d&b audiotechnik Partner on Immersive Audio Technology Integration

Managing an immersive audio production during a live performance is a challenge that is better dealt with directly in the mixing console. But because immersive audio formats continue to rely on external DSP processors, companies need to work together. The German professional loudspeaker company d&b audiotechnik has partnered with DiGiCo, to integrate d&b's Soundscape immersive audio system platform directly into the digital mixing solutions of the British company.
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FLUX:: Immersive SPAT Revolution Software Adds Wave Field Synthesis for Spatial Audio Reproduction
February 23, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

FLUX:: Immersive SPAT Revolution Software Adds Wave Field Synthesis for Spatial Audio Reproduction

SPAT Revolution, the result of a successful partnership between FLUX:: Immersive and the French research institute Ircam, is a complete software suite created to bring the vast research performed at Ircam available to the market. SPAT Revolution 22.02 is a free software upgrade, packed with new features and improvements, and includes a Wave Field Synthesis option with an add-on license. It also offers reinforced support for QLAB and Logic Pro, OSC messages for snapshot recall, and enhanced ADM-OSC support.
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