Avid has announced the integration of Flux:: Spat Revolution software with its Venue S6L systems, creating a real-time multichannel immersive 3D-audio platform for live, theatre and installed sound applications.
The move follows workflow enhancements to Avid snapshot automation technology designed specifically for theatrical and live sound. Full control of Spat Revolution via AAX DSP plug-ins enables full tactile control via the S6L’s surface knobs as well as integration into the console’s Venue software and snapshot automation, delivering powerful control over multichannel surround and immersive 3D audio environments, with support for virtually any loudspeaker brand and configuration.
Spat Revolution claims to be ‘the most powerful and comprehensive real-time immersive 3D and multichannel audio control available on any platform’, providing highly advanced positioning and automation of spatialisation parameters, regardless of output format and speaker configuration. With its modular, object-based design, Spat Revolution integrates into any mix environment, delivering unlimited input/output channels, sources and transcoders (dictated by system hardware), support for major hardware and software interfaces, and network support via Open Sound Control.
Spat Revolution offers a range of additional features to simplify workflow integration, including OSC support, Real-Time Tracking integration, multiple 3D views, and full Python script support. AU, VST, and AAX plug-in compatibility makes it easy to integrate with major DAW platforms, as well as QLab live show control, and other applications supporting standard plug-ins.
‘While most real-time Immersive 3D Audio engines are designed for specific spatialisation parameters and output formats, we’ve created Spat Revolution to deliver complete flexibility, allowing the user to easily move between different loudspeaker environments while maintaining the integrity of the immersive experience,’ says Flux:: founder and CEO, Gaël Martinet. ‘From experience creation to delivery, Spat Revolution is the dream come true for every sound designer.’
‘By leveraging S6L’s AAX DSP plug-in architecture, Avid and Flux:: are able to deliver comprehensive hands-on control of Spat’s parameters directly from the control surface and provide engineers and sound designers with deep Venue software programming for this powerful immersive audio environment,’ says Vid Director of Live System Product Management, Al McKinna.
