Diffusion Lab

The Diffusion Studio is a sonically isolated, floating-construction room for advanced sound diffusion design and experimentation. It supports a wide variety of surround-sound configurations, including a compact 3D sound dome and Dolby Atmos.

DiffusionRoomSep2024 x1000

Monitoring

The truss-suspended audio-monitoring system provided an outer ring of ten speakers, an inner ring of ten speakers, four overhead speakers, six corner speakers, and two sub-woofers.

  • 4x Genelec 8020
  • 4x Genelec 8030
  • 10x Genelec 8040
  • 10x Genelec 8050
  • 2x Genelec 1037
  • 2x Genelec 7071 Subwoofers

Workstation

The core of the diffusion system is the Mac Pro rack (16 core, 32GB DDR4 ECC memory, 1TB SSD storage, Radeon Pro W5500X with 8GB of GDDR6 memory) with and RME Digiface and Dante Interface, RME ARC USB, and an ultra-wide (5120x1440) LG 49WL LCD display.

Monitoring in the studio is controlled by a DACS custom 16x32 mixer and balanced patchbay allowing for bespoke I/O configurations.

The controller keyboard is an Arturia Keylab 88 Mark II.

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
  • Nuendo
  • Reaper
  • Sonic Visualiser
  • SuperCollider

Other Plugins and Digital Instruments

  • 2C Audio
    • Breeze2
  • Arturia
    • Piano V3
    • Analog Lab
    • Vox Continental
    • Wurli
  • Audio Ease
    • Altiverb
  • Celemony
    • Melodyne
  • Dolby
    • Dolby Atmos Renderer
  • IRCAM
    • SpatRevolution
    • ASAP
    • Flux Ircam Tools
    • Flux Ircam HEar
  • 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
  • Vienna Symphonic Library
    • Synchron Prime Edition
  • ZKM/Hertz Lab
    • Zirkonium