Meeting Report: Dec 2017 Dolby Immersive Audio From the Cinema to the Home

2017/12/172018/08/23Secretary

On Monday December 11^th Nick Engel, Dolby’s Senior Director of Consumer Entertainment Technology presented to the AES Melbourne Section on the topic “Dolby Atmos – Immersive Audio: From the Cinema to the Home”

Nick Engels immerses us in Dolby Atmos – photo Rod Staples

Nick started with an overview of the history of Dolby’s last thirty years of cinema audio, encompassing Dolby Surround, Digital Surround Ex (5.1), and Dolby Surround 7.1. He then moved on from these channel-based systems to the object-based spatial audio description of Atmos – describing position, size and diffusion of individual objects. Continue reading “Meeting Report: Dec 2017 Dolby Immersive Audio From the Cinema to the Home”

Meeting Report: Nov 2017 Peter Larsen LOUDSOFT

2017/11/182018/08/23Secretary

November 2017 Meeting Report

FINE Speaker Test & Design

On Monday November 13^th Peter Larsen, President and founder of loudspeaker design and testing software company LOUDSOFT presented to the AES Melbourne Section on the topic “Loudspeaker Design & Test Methods”

Peter started by summarizing his career to date starting with his working for several Scandinavian loudspeaker companies, and JBL in the US, culminating in the founding of LOUDSOFT in 2001. Continue reading “Meeting Report: Nov 2017 Peter Larsen LOUDSOFT”

December Meeting Notice: Immersive Audio from Dolby

2017/11/162017/11/21Secretary

December Meeting Notice

The next meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be on Monday 11^th December at 7:30pm at

The SAE Institute Lecture Theatre, 235 Normanby Rd South Melbourne.

Nick Engel of Dolby Labs will present on the topic

Immersive Audio

From the Cinema to the Home

Nick will discuss the evolution of channel based audio to immersive audio formats and how this shifts the paradigm of audio authoring, delivery and playback. He will describe immersive representations such as object based immersive (OBI), channel based immersive (CBI) and sound field formats and cover key concepts and relevant ITU-R and SMPTE standards.
He will also provide a technical overview of Dolby Atmos (a widely deployed commercially available immersive system) as it is used in the cinema, in the home, and on portable devices. Continue reading “December Meeting Notice: Immersive Audio from Dolby”

The AES Melbourne Section Skills Survey

2017/10/26Secretary

The AES Melbourne Section is conducting a survey of pro-audio practitioners to identify the education, skills, and experience of people working in the pro-audio industry.

The purpose of the survey is to assist the Section in better provision of services to our members, and the industry at large.

It will also help us in answering queries from people interested in entering the industry.

We would greatly appreciate your participation in this survey.

You can get to the survey through this page on our website:

http://www.aesmelbourne.org.au/skills-survey-2017/

The survey will run for one month, so please respond promptly.

Both retired audio folk and students looking to break into the field are most welcome to complete the survey along with current practitioners.

When the survey results are available, a summary will be provided to all participants as a reward for their effort.

All data provided is anonymized before processing, and will not be used for any purpose other than the provision of consolidated summary reports.

Thank you for your participation.