Meyers Sound Launches New Spatial Audio Tool Spacemap GO
Today, a new revolutionary tool for sound artist and sound designers has entered the atmosphere! Meyers Sound has just released Spacemap Go, a new industry competing spatial audio tool brought to us by Steve Ellison, the director of spatial sound at Meyers Sound who claims it as ” a breakthrough for sound designers and sound artists.” Spacemap Go is a free app for Apple iPad that can transform thousands of Meyers Sound GALAXY Network Platform processors in the field into powerful, flexible and user-friendly tools for spatial audio design and mixing. Spacemap Go works with multiple GALAXY processors, and it can be controlled by a single iPad or multiple iPads. This gives a larger and more versatile control surface as well as allowing simultaneous control by multiple users. Users with existing GALAXY inventory only need a supply of one or more iPads as appropriate for the application.
A notable benefit, Spacemap Go is seamlessly compatible with sound design and shows control programs such as QLab and can be automated by popular DAWs such as Ableton Live, Apple Logic Pro X, AVID Pro Tools, MOTU Digital Performer, and Reaper. When utilizing Spacemap Go on site of recording, tracks can quickly expanded into a multi-channel spatial mix using Spacemap Go’s templates for common multi-channel configurations. The templates can be customized for a particular setup, while panning trajectories can be created with the touch of a finger and, if desired, captured for playback during performance. Spatial trajectories can be created, edited and stored using the graphic interface although the detailed matrix remains immediately accessible for reference or direct data entry.
“Spacemap Go gives sound designers a powerful and cost-effective spatial mixing tool that expands creative possibilities without taking them out of their normal workflow. It adapts to any application, starting with something basic like expanding a front stage mix to seven arrays in a concert setting. Beyond that, in theatrical and themed spectacular applications, it can do much more. You can pan sounds anywhere in the room, stopping and restarting or varying the speed, all with your fingertip.”
Marc Chutczer, Meyer Sound Vice President of R&D
The Spacemap Go launch follows a busy period of activity for the US loudspeaker giant. Over the Past month the company has made four Senior executive appointments and deployed its largest Constellation system in the US to date.
To keep up with Meyers sound innovations and to learn more about Spacemap Go, Meyers Sound will be hosting a series of public roundtables November 4, November 11, November 18, and December 2. Throughout each discussion, Meyers Sound Panelist will be available for Q&A. You can register for the 9AM PST session here and the 5 PM PST session here.
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