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Spatial Audio Alert. We love this project using our Mach1 Spatial SDK. Now that the SDK is open and our Mach1 Spatial Sy...
12/13/2025

Spatial Audio Alert. We love this project using our Mach1 Spatial SDK. Now that the SDK is open and our Mach1 Spatial System tools are free and open, we’re starting to see the kind of underground experiments we always envisioned treating spatial audio as a true medium, not a gimmick. Sonic Acts’ Spatial Radio is a 24-hour, ever-shifting sound environment that lets you enter the mix. Powered by Mach1’s open, codec-free spatial framework, it transforms any set of headphones into an immersive listening space, presenting multichannel performances, commissions, and archival works with complete precision and creative freedom. We’re also seeing real momentum in academia, with new use cases emerging and multiple white papers in the pipeline. Excited to share more in the months ahead. Link in comments.

At this year’s IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2), the conversation around 3D audio for live m...
11/20/2025

At this year’s IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2), the conversation around 3D audio for live music took a meaningful step forward. The new paper and demo, Beyond Marketing: A Holistic Analysis of 3D Audio Workflows for Live Music Production, compared multiple spatial workflows including our now free and open Mach1 Spatial System and public Mach1 Spatial SDK. Using Mach1 tools, the team demonstrated flexible, customizable live-streaming pipelines that deliver higher fidelity than previously achievable.

For the second year in a row, these researchers prioritized real sonic performance over product claims, rigorously testing microphone configurations, panning strategies, and playback setups to understand what truly improves live 3D audio. The group: Claudia Rinaldi, Mauro Galbiati, Stefano Giacomelli, Tiziano Salvi, Nicola Gualandris, and Luca Belotti expanded on their prior IS2 work by developing a distributed live audio/video system linking a concert hall and AV control room via VPN. They evaluated three ambient recording techniques (compact array, distributed array, and second-order analog Ambisonics), two panning algorithms, and a homogeneous 14-loudspeaker playback system. A blind questionnaire captured listener impressions to ensure conclusions were grounded in sonic performance rather than marketing narratives. Looking forward to hearing the final results.



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Something wicked this way comes.
Source’ry from Mach1 🪄In the wake of major industry recognition an Emmy Award for SNL50...
10/31/2025

Something wicked this way comes.
Source’ry from Mach1 🪄
In the wake of major industry recognition an Emmy Award for SNL50 360 with LightSailVR, an Emmy nomination for Meta’s Red Rocks Artist VR Series, eight Sports Emmys, and an AMP Award for Best Use of Immersive Sound for UFC 306 at The Sphere - Q Department & Mach1 conjure:
Mach1 Spatial System 2.0 now open & free to the world. (Previously $499) Hailed by The New York Times as “equal and more flexible (due to interoperability) than Dolby Atmos,” Mach1 breaks free from the proprietary walls of Big Tech. Working with the entire Q Department team for over 15 years - and led by the Mach1 core team - Drazen Bosnjak, Jacqueline Bosnjak, and Dylan Marcus - we’ve built and battle-tested tools that defend audio’s creative freedom. Now, by open-sourcing the Mach1 codebase, we’re sharing that framework with the world: a non-ambisonic, multichannel, layer-based system that invites creators, developers, and platforms to build without restriction.
Mach1 Spatial System now Free & Open | Built by Mach1 & Forged by Q Department.

get a Master Class in Spatial Audio from Dražen
10/31/2025

get a Master Class in Spatial Audio from Dražen

.paris Mach1 Spatial Audio Master Class with Q Department Paris
10/31/2025

.paris Mach1 Spatial Audio Master Class with Q Department Paris

A decades journey. Dražen Bošnjak Dylan Marcus Jacqueline Bošnjak
08/13/2025

A decades journey. Dražen Bošnjak Dylan Marcus Jacqueline Bošnjak

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