Audiovisual Lab

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The 5.1 / Audiovisual Lab is housed in a sonically isolated, floating-construction room. It supports 5.1 surround mixing with a callibrated Neumann DSP monitor system. Advanced video and animation production are supported by the dual Apple 5k displays, Adobe Creative Cloud, Maxon One [Cinema 4D, Redshift, Red Giant (Universe, Trapcode, Magic Bullet, VFX), Forger, and Zbrush], and a render farm.

Workstation

  • Mac Pro (16 core Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz, 384GB DDR4 ECC memory, 2 AMD Radeon Pro 16GB memory, 4TB SSD storage). The Mac Pro is located in the MTIRL machine room to ensure a pristine listening environment in this lab.
  • 2x Apple 5k 27-inch Retina Studio Displays
  • RME Fireface UFX II Audio Interface
  • RME Advanced Remote Control USB
  • ProSonus FaderPort Production Control Center
  • Contour Shuttle eXpress

Audio Monitoring

  • 5x Neumann HD80 Active DSP Monitors
  • Neumann HD750 Subwoofer
  • Neumann MA1 Automatic Monitor Callibration Kit
  • SPL 2489 Surround Monitor Controller

Render Farm

  • 2x MacMini (Apple M2 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, 16 Gb RAM, 512 Gb SSD)

Core Software

  • Ableton Live 11 Suite
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Apple Logic Pro
  • Audacity
  • Avid Pro Tools
  • Cycling 74 Max
  • iZotope RX 10 Audio Editor
  • Microsoft Office
  • Maxon One
  • Nuendo 8
  • Reaper
  • Sonic Visualiser
  • SuperCollider

Other Plugins and Digital Instruments

  • 2C Audio
    • Breeze2
  • Audio Ease
    • Altiverb
  • Celemony
    • Melodyne
  • IRCAM
    • SpatRevolution
    • ASAP
  • INA
    • GRM Tools
  • iZotope
    • Insight
    • BreakTweaker
    • Imager 2
    • Nectar
    • Neoverb
    • Neutron
    • Ozone
    • Relay
    • RX10
    • Sutter Edit 2
    • Tonal Balance Control 2
    • Trash 2
    • Vinyl
    • Vocal Doubler
    • VocalSynth 2
  • Native Instruments
    • Absynth
    • Battery
    • FM8
    • Guitar Rig
    • Kontakt
    • Massive
    • Reaktor
  • UVI
    • Falcon