Sound engineers can now experience truly immersive 3D audio without the use of loudspeakers but instead through their headphones following a series of cutting-edge research projects that have been more than five years in the making.
The Applied Psychoacoustics Lab (APL), headed by the University of Huddersfield's Dr Hyunkook Lee, has developed an immersive audio plug-in titled VIRTUOSO which is being hailed by experts around the world as 'top-class', 'impressive' and 'a game-changer'.
"VIRTUOSO is a game-changer for my binaural adventures. Finally, I have a reliable immersive monitoring set-up to go, and all I have to think about is making music for it."
Hans-Martin Buff, in-house engineer for 'The Artist Formerly Known As Prince'.
VIRTUOSO, which recently became available as a commercial product, uses binaural technology powered by ASPEN™, for virtualising stereo or immersive loudspeaker setups and listening rooms for headphone monitoring, 'with excellent tonal/spatial fidelity and a highly accurate translation' to real loudspeakers.
While immersive sound technology such as Dolby Atmos can provide listeners with a 3D audio experience, a multi-speaker set-up is required to deliver it.
