Technology
Production to performance: solutions for an unrivalled experience
The complex process that leads to a truly memorable sonic experience includes off-site content creation, custom sound system design, and system setup and playback at the venue. It is our primary goal to connect every phase of the process with an optimized workflow that makes content delivery smooth and easy. Our extensive experience in the PA field has allowed us to develop new technologies that can make that goal a reality. Flexible system design and controllability from a broad range of external devices provides unprecedented support for immersive content production.
Off-site production
Content Production
Nuendo DAW
The industry leading Nuendo DAW is the first choice for many professionals working in immersive sound, TV post-production, and game audio.
* Other DAWs will be supported in the future.
System design & setup
Speaker System Simulation
NS-1
NS-1 is a powerful, intuitive system design and simulation tool that supports all NEXO products.
This latest update also supports a wide range of Yamaha professional audio speakers and includes AFC Design Assistant, which works closely with Yamaha’s AFC Image to deliver high end immersive audio. AFC Design Assistant provides the necessary guidelines for the required number and placement of speakers to provide a full immersive audio experience for an entire audience. When the system design is complete, the design file can be exported from NS-1 and imported to AFC Image Editor, making the whole process from studio design through to venue performance as quick, easy and accurate as possible.
Space Conversion
AFC Image processing incorporates a state-of-the-art Yamaha conversion function that automatically optimizes the motion of an object specified in a DAW for playback in a specific environment.
On-site production
AFC Enhance
With an appropriate number of AFC microphones and speakers set up in the target space, AFC Enhance uses the AFC processing engine to flexibly control the ambience of the space as needed. Precise control of early reflections and reverberation, parameters that have a huge effect on the aural impression of space, make it possible to control overall ambience as required while maintaining the environment’s distinctive architectural ambience. By applying that ambience to audience sounds and footsteps in real time, it is possible to give the audience the impression of being in a theater, cave, or other location even if the actual space is acoustically dead.
AFC Image
AFC Image is a Yamaha immersive technology that controls the perceived positions of acoustic images within a space. AFC Image supports object-based production for up to 128 object channels of immersive sound. The immersive experience can even be transmitted to remote 2-channel binaural headphones. An original 3D reverb system that generates ambience matched to the object’s location is also included. Another advanced feature is an original Yamaha conversion function that automatically optimizes the motion of an object specified in a DAW for ideal rendering via any speaker layout in any space. Object motion can be controlled from Yamaha RIVAGE PM, CL, or QL series digital mixing consoles, for flexible on-site control.
Nuendo (DAW)
The industry leading Nuendo DAW is the first choice for many professionals working in immersive sound, TV post-production, and game audio. Its MultiPanner is a powerful, highly valued tool for object-based or channel-based 3D sound mixing. Nuendo continues to innovate not only with features users need right now, but also with high-end capabilities that look to the future and drive the entire post-production industry forward. It natively supports Yamaha immersive systems so that content previously created using Nuendo can be reproduced with full impact in the latest Yamaha immersive environment.
* Other DAWs will be supported in the future.
NS-1
NS-1 is a powerful, intuitive system design and simulation tool that supports all NEXO products. Using a simple drag-and-drop interface, this software brings real-world measurements of all NEXO systems together with some very complex mathematics to accurately predict sound propagation and acoustic delay in three dimensions. NS-1 speaker system parameters can be easily transferred to and used with AFC Image. NS-1 is a free download.
This latest update also supports a wide range of Yamaha professional audio speakers and includes AFC Design Assistant, which works closely with Yamaha’s AFC Image to deliver high end immersive audio. AFC Design Assistant provides the necessary guidelines for the required number and placement of speakers to provide a full immersive audio experience for an entire audience. When the system design is complete, the design file can be exported from NS-1 and imported to AFC Image Editor, making the whole process from studio design through to venue performance as quick, easy and accurate as possible.
Space Conversion
AFC Image processing incorporates a state-of-the-art Yamaha conversion function that automatically optimizes the motion of an object specified in a DAW for playback in a specific environment. This allows content created in a conventional production environment to be ideally rendered with any speaker layout in any space, dramatically reducing the time and effort required to edit content for different venues.
Control
Control from mixing console
Control from mixing console
Object motion can be controlled from Yamaha RIVAGE PM, CL, or QL series digital mixing consoles.
Real-time tracking
Real-time tracking
Objects can be tracked and acoustic images positioned to match the object position in real time.
OSC support
OSC support
OSC support provides compatibility with show controllers from other manufacturers.
