Audio Orchestrator
Accessing Audio Orchestrator
closeAudio Orchestrator is available to users both within and outside the ´óÏó´«Ã½. If you're requesting from outside the ´óÏó´«Ã½ you will be asked to sign and return Terms and Conditions; this will allow you to use and explore the tool on a trial basis. Any conversations about publishing Audio Orchestrator experiences will take place separately and are not conditional for trial usage. Please allow two working days to hear back from any request. To request a tool you must be a member of the MakerBox Community.
How does it work?
1Create a project in your digital audio workstation of choice and export your finished files
2Load them into Audio Orchestrator and set rules to define when sounds are sent to devices
3Preview your experience, make changes and then export your final experience
What is Audio Orchestrator?
Imagine being able to create content that harnesses the loudspeakers in everyday devices all around us – in our smartphones, tablets and laptops - to play out a fully immersive audio experience. Whether you want to create a captivating surround sound piece for the home or an innovative installation at an event, Audio Orchestrator gives you a chance to experiment and deliver a listening experience like no other to your audience. The tool's unique creation process ensures that the experience can adapt to fit any number and many different types of devices - even if this changes during listening.
Developed by ´óÏó´«Ã½ R&D, Audio Orchestrator allows you to take your audio projects and rework them into interactive, 360°, spatial audio that envelops your listeners in sound - from above, from behind, sending sound to one, many or all connected devices to tell your story in a new and unique way.
Top tips to get you ready
For maximum reach and accessibility with experiences for the home make sure that the core experience works with a small number of connected devices - most users don't own a multitude of devices.
During initial planning try to think about how listeners will consume your experience: what types of device they'll be able to connect, and what device orchestration can add to the listening experience.
Be sure to grip listeners by utilising the potential of spatial audio right from the beginning of your experience.
What have we learnt from Audio Orchestrator so far?
Audio Orchestrator was part of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ R&D Audio Team’s wider work on creating personalised and immersive listening experiences - and the tools to deliver these experiences.
We learnt a lot from evaluating audience responses to our first experience for orchestrated devices: The Vostok-K Incident. We used interaction logs to look at the time that listeners spent with The Vostok-K Incident including the number of extra devices they connected and how they used the different options on the interface.
The results suggested that there is value in this approach to delivering audio drama: 79% of respondents loved or liked using phones as speakers, and 85% would use the technology again. The interaction results gave helpful pointers for future experiences, suggesting that we should aim to get the greatest possible benefit out of few connected devices, ensure that content is impactful right from the start, and explore different types of user interaction. As well as this large scale public trial, we have also performed controlled user testing and follow up interviews.
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