All items tagged with tuning (10)

Evolution of Automotive Audio Tuning and Testing

August 13, 2025 by Jacob Soendergaard and Jesse Gratke

Evolution of Automotive Audio Tuning and Testing

Offering an updated perspective on automotive audio, this article highlights the advantages of utilizing a head-and-torso simulator (HATS) and introduces the Multi-Dimensional Audio Quality Score (MDAQS) assessment of audio quality - both key technologies pioneered by HEAD acoustics. Valuable insights about the methods used to benchmark automotive audio and advanced audio processing in modern vehicles, equipped with high channel counts and headrest speakers.

Inside the Audio Lab: How Apple Developed Its Hearing Health Experience

October 28, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Inside the Audio Lab: How Apple Developed Its Hearing Health Experience

Apple owns multiple R&D centers spread across the globe, some of which include state-of-the-art anechoic chambers and advanced acoustic simulation rooms. Apple’s state-of-the-art Audio Lab in Cupertino, California, is the hub for the design, measurement, tuning, and validation of all of Apple’s products with speakers or microphones. It’s also the center for Apple's multiyear, cross-team collaboration that enabled the new hearing health features on AirPods Pro 2.

Audison Boosts In Car DSP with New Auto-Tuning Software

July 9, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Audison Boosts In Car DSP with New Auto-Tuning Software

Audison, the renowned Italian car audio brand owned by Elettromedia Group, announced the release of its highly anticipated bit Drive 2.0 update for DSP products, featuring ACCORDO, an auto-tuning software tool. According to Audison, this cutting-edge technology auto-tunes car audio systems with time and phase alignment to a target curve with a simple step-by-step process. The solution only requires one microphone and no additional expensive external hardware.

Voicemod Makes AI-Powered Sing-to-Sing Technology Available to Developers

July 5, 2024 by Joao Martins

Voicemod Makes AI-Powered Sing-to-Sing Technology Available to Developers

Voicemod's Sing-to-Sing AI technology enables users to modify their singing voice in real-time, including pitch, timbre adjustments and automatic voice tuning with features such as choir, duet, evolver and calitune. For the first time, Voicemod's Sing-to-Sing AI technology is available for third-party developers and hardware manufacturers via Voicemod's SDK, which also supports the company's Speech-to-Speech and Soundboard functionalities.

Technology So Good, We Have to Change Our Name!

February 7, 2024 by Timothy Brault

Technology So Good, We Have to Change Our Name!

dbx-tv processing has long enabled fantastic sound in televisions. We’ve extended that great performance to speakers & other electronics, but have a problem – ‘dbx-tv’ implies our processing is only for TVs, but it sounds too good to keep it away from other devices! We’re changing our name to Total Sonics, a better reflection of our audio expertise. Learn about Total Sonics’ award-winning speaker optimization algorithms, Total Cal room calibration system, and our history of excellence here!

Properly Equalized: Best Practices for Loudspeaker Equalization and Tuning

April 27, 2022 by Charlie Hughes

Properly Equalized: Best Practices for Loudspeaker Equalization and Tuning

Charlie Hughes knows about directivity control and how a loudspeaker system should sound good and measure accordingly. This article offers basic recommended guidelines that will not only help to develop good equalization and tuning practices, but also will go a long way in improving the overall sound quality, regardless of the application. This article was originally published in audioXpress, January 2022.

LANDR Audio Acquires Maker of Popular Vocal Processing Software, Synchro Arts

June 9, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

LANDR Audio Acquires Maker of Popular Vocal Processing Software, Synchro Arts

It's not only the transition in the way musicians create and publish music for streaming platforms that is changing the music industry. It's also a confluence of business models that is forcing technology companies to convert from selling products to selling services and subscriptions. LANDR Audio, the online music creation, mastering and distribution company announced that it has acquired Synchro Arts, the makers of the popular VocAlign and Revoice Pro vocal processing audio software.

Alango Introduces Short Range Sound Modem (SRSM) Technology

March 4, 2020 by Joao Martins

Alango Introduces Short Range Sound Modem (SRSM) Technology

Imagine having ten of thousands of TWS earbuds lined-up at EOL and ready to be packed, when engineering calls to say there's a new vital instruction update that needs to be loaded. Alango developed a practical short range data-over-sound implementation that allows doing just that. Short Range Sound Modem (SRSM) technology enables device configuration and updates without modifying existing hardware, and enables all sorts of one- or two-way acoustic communication scenarios.

Ircam Lab’s The Snail Revolutionary Instrument Tuner/Analyzer Software

February 15, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Ircam Lab’s The Snail Revolutionary Instrument Tuner/Analyzer Software

Radical innovation in audio is always happening these days… mostly in software. Ircam Lab, a commercial arm of French research institute IRCAM, just announced the release of their revolutionary new software, The Snail. This modern looking Tuner/Analyser software offers a new and extremely accurate way of tuning and analyzing an instrument.

DigiTech reissues Envelope Filter effect and debuts instant drop-tuning

June 16, 2014 by audioXpress Staff

DigiTech reissues Envelope Filter effect and debuts instant drop-tuning

Harman’s DigiTech just released two new effects pedals combining retro-appeal with practical innovations. One example is the reissue of its DOD Envelope Filter 440, while the other is a debut of a brand new concept, the Drop Pedal for instant drop-tuning.