Audio Monitoring: Adapting Quickly to Changing Tech: Vendors respond to advances in immersive, cloud

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The adoption of software-based platforms over recent years has ushered in a new era for audio monitoring device manufacturers and their customers. One significant benefit is the ability to adapt to changing standards and workflows, which is enabling monitoring product developers to prepare for the transition to wider adoption of immersive audio and, potentially, cloud-based production."We can react to changes in the industry without needing to develop a whole new hardware platform every time," Berny Carpenter, audio product manager for TSL Products, confirms. TSL's SAM-Q SDI is a good example, he says. "That's very much a model where we will be able to deliver continual software updates."Monitoring object-based immersive audio formats including Dolby Atmos and MPEG-H can be challenging, especially where loud-ness measurement is concerned. According to product specialist Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe at Nugen Audio, "At the moment that's not really feasible. The official guidance from Dolby, last I checked, is that you should create a 5.1 downmix and do the loudness measurement on that."That being said, "Our loudness software-VisLM, LM Correct and ISL-all operate in 7.1.2," he says. "That's what would normally be used for a Dolby Atmos bed track." Nugen aims to ultimately support 7.1.2 in all of its relevant products, he says.