W-14 3-d Audio For Multimedia
Monday, September 29, 9:00 am
Chairman: Brian Schmidt, Q-Systems
Panelists: Roger Dressler, Dolby Laboratories, Inc.; Kenneth Ma, Trident Technologies; Brian McDowell, Microsoft; Conrad Maxwell, Chairman, IASIG; Matt Perry, Crystal Semiconductor Corporation
3-D audio has had a hard time making it into the multimedia landscape, often playing second fiddle to graphics. Limitations of processing power and lack of standards for creating 3-D content as well as audio have made a long road for 3-D audio to make its way to mainstream multimedia. Finally, this has changed. Processing power has soared, standards such as Dolby Digital and DirectSound have created authoring standards, and initiatives such as AC97 and USB stand to make high-fidelity multimedia audio a reality. This workshop will include presentations by leaders in the 3-D audio industry who will discuss the current state of 3-D audio for multimedia. A panel discussion with audience participation will follow. Among the topics to be discussed are authoring standards, limitations of 3-D audio technologies, and delivery platforms.
W-15 VST: An Open Software Platform For Digital Audio Workstations
Monday, September 29, 2:00 pm
Chairman: Fadi Hayek, Steinberg North America
Panelists: Charlie Steinberg, Wolfgang Kundrus, and Stephan Scheffler, Steinberg North America; Kord Taylor, SGI; Doug Bloomquist, Apple; Ralf Schluenzen, TC Electronics; Bob Reardon, Lexicon; Alon Zacai, Waves; Jörg Houpert, Spectral Design
This workshop will include demonstrations on the Virtual Studio Technology platform. The panelists will discuss the Cubase VST software, advantages and open possibilities of native processing and floating-point digital signal processing, advantages other manufacturers' multiplatforms will have on the VST architecture, and software plug-ins for the VST platform. The Lexicon Studio hardware systems using the VST platform, and Cubase VST software will be demonstrated. Finally, the technological and cost-effective advantages as well as the future of VST will be described.
W-16 Firewire: IEEE 1394
Monday, September 29, 2:00 pm
Chairman: Robert A. Moses, PAVO, Inc.
Panelists: Burke Henehan, Texas Instruments; Brian Karr, PAVO Inc.; Yoshida Sawada, Yamaha Corp.; John Strawn, Chairman of AESSC SC-06-02, S Systems, Inc.; Steve Timm, Microsoft
The IEEE 1394 Serial Bus promises to carry hundreds of channels of digital audio, digital video, and control protocols over a single cable between a variety of audio/video devices. This workshop provides an overview of the 1394 standard and explores the special requirements audio places on the bus. A system comprising a variety of 1394 devices will be demonstrated, then carefully dissected so that attendees gain a clear understanding of both the low-level implementation details and high-level system issues. The panel includes representatives from many of the leading developers of 1394 hardware and software technologies.
