d&b teams up with Avid and BlackTrax for immersive demos

d&b audiotechnik Asia Pacific devoted three days in February to delivering a “Soundscape Experience” at its premises in Singapore. Open to anyone interested in providing immersive performances, two sessions per day were held to demonstrate a fully integrated production environment in collaboration with Avid and BlackTrax and their respective local distributors.

d&b’s regional business development manager, Kheong Sen Lim, and application engineer, Gareth Kelbrick, led the programme with the purpose of showing audible and visible results rather than technical details. “After numerous Soundscape applications and installations around the world, including the iconic Esplanade and the Marina Bay Sands Theatre here in Singapore, we are seeing increasing interest from all market segments,” explained Kheong. “We had a broad cross-section of the industry attending the event, including sound engineers, designers, producers and even decision-makers of organisations and venues.”

Not unlike a real-world scenario, Kheong and Kelbrick used pre-recorded signals and their own spoken words to show the capabilities of the d&b DS100 engine, including En-Scene localisation and En-Space acoustic enhancement software. Equipped with BlackTrax beacons, the presenters demonstrated real-time stage tracking with both audio and moving lights following their every move, before Malcolm Fooh, product specialist at Acoustic & Lighting System, further described BlackTrax’s functionality.

Serving as the central control unit, an Avid Venue S6L console sat at the centre of a seamlessly integrated system, communicating via Dante, clarified by IMS Mahajak’s general manager, Shah Tahir.

Kheong concluded: “Coming from the initial L-R stereo concept, more and more designers are realising the benefits of immersive systems, as well as in conference venues and places of worship where it results in significantly improving the engagement of the audience.”