AX32 Makes Ambisonics Dreams Come True

Thanks to new audio formats such as Dolby Atmos, Auro 3D and Ambisonics, immersive audio has become something of a buzzword lately. But while the individual formats may be new, the idea of immersive sound is far from new...

We met with Jesper Andersen, Associate Professor and Head of Tonmeister Studies, at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, Denmark, to learn more about a brand-new concert hall with a very immersive twist and some AX32-magic at the core.

However, that was very difficult to achieve. For instance, the hall is rectangular, which means that the speakers on the sides are actually too close to the listeners compared to the speakers at the front and rear.

“We used a measurement microphone and determined the distance to the speaker that was the farthest away, and then we added delay to the rest in order to emulate a perfect circle in each speaker plane.

Using the AX32 with the SPQ card brought us so much closer to the perfect hemisphere, as we measured and compensated each channel to deliver within a 1-millisecond margin. The AX32 / SPQ combo was an absolute genius solution to this problem!”

As part of our partnership with Avid, we have developed the new MTRX Studio audio interface that was revealed at the recent NAMM 2020 show in California.

MTRX Studio comes with the acclaimed DADman routing matrix, Pro | Mon 3, Eucon-control integration, best in class AD/DA conversion and onboard SPQ-processing as part of a compact 19" 1 RU package.

We had a great time at NAMM this year. There was plenty of quality traffic at the booth, but we were also taking part other places around the show ground...