A flexible system architecture for collaborative sound engineering in object-based audio environments

Object-based sound reproduction, on the one hand, allows sound engineers to interact with sound objects, not only during production but also in the reproduction venue. On the other hand object-based systems are quite complex: Multicore audio processors are used to render complex sound scenes consisting of hundreds of audio objects to be reproduced using a large number of loudspeaker channels. This results in the need for applications optimally adapted to the user. Working tasks need to be parallelized. This paper outlines a software architecture which helps to incorporate the multitude of audio processing components of an object-based spatial audio environment into a unified system. The architecture allows multiple sound engineers to access, monitor, control, change these system components parameters collaboratively using wireless mobile devices