L-Acoustics has released new L-ISA Studio software suite and upgraded the L-ISA spatial audio processing engine, directing its efforts towards sound designers and mixing engineers.
‘L-ISA Studio grants all sound creators the ability to conceive, create, iterate and experience their work in 3D audio,’ explains Executive Director of Creative Technologies, Guillaume Le Nost. ‘It is the perfect tool to work on the pre-production of an L-ISA live show or the sound design of a newly imagined immersive experience – or even mix an album in 7.1.4.’
L-ISA Studio contains the same spatial audio and room engine algorithms as its hardware counterpart, the L-ISA Processor, yet is redesigned and improved with key features for room enhancement, a fully augmented scale simulation mode, and binaural output. The upgraded engine – now used in both software and hardware L-ISA configurations – content to be placed in virtual space of any given size and shape. Control strategies, sonic trajectories and sound system behaviours can be defined and then demonstrated in real time, ‘streamlining the creative process in its early stages and minimising the need for last-minute changes’.
Through L-ISA Studio’s binaural engine, users can now create and monitor spatialised audio content with headphones and optional head tracking, and in any multichannel mixing or recording studio with up to 12 loudspeakers for multichannel monitoring. For a fully portable 3D sound creation tool and listening, L-ISA Studio can be paired with Contour XO, the recently launched professional in-ear monitor from L‑Acoustics and JH Audio.
L-ISA Studio interfaces with leading digital audio workstations, show control software and game engines. It also offers compatibility with various 3D audio format outputs, including Dolby Atmos and multichannel configurations.
Auditoria Director Scott Willsallen and his team are presently using L-ISA Studio to design the immersive sound experience for the Al Wasl Dome, an immersive space at the centre of Expo 2020 in Dubai. ‘We all know how precious time is on a show and how little of that time is allocated to sound,’ Willsallen says. ‘L-ISA Studio provides an exceptionally convenient platform for our content creators to audition their content and precisely author object trajectories, giving them confidence in their work. The creative scope of L-ISA is vast and L-ISA Studio provides a tool that allows us to explore the full potential of the immersive sound technology, without spending additional time on the show systems.’
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