Studio Two - Sheila Beckles Studio
A dedicated studio for audio in multimedia production and composition.
This facility is mainly designed for postgraduate and staff audio visual and compositional research. It was named after the Sheila Beckles Foundation contribution to the Electroacoustic Studios of the NOVARS Research Centre.
After three years of research employing a number of game-engine tools, we devoted the Sheila Beckles Studio at NOVARS primarily to research into new Game-engine and related technology with a focus on sound.
Electroacoustic studio specs for Studio Two include:
- Apple Mac Pro
3.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5, 12GB RAM
2x AMD FirePro D500 3072 MB
1x Dell P2415Q display
1x Toshiba 50L2436DB LED TV
1x Oculus Rift
MacOS - Audio interfaces
1x Pro Tools | HD Native Thunderbolt
1x Focusrite RED 4Pre
1x Focusrite RedNet 2
1x Focusrite RedNet 4
1x MOTU 828x - Loudspeakers
5x PMC twotwo6
1x Genelec 7070a Sub - Instruments
The Hordijk instrument is a 5U music synthesizer system, including:
1x TriLFO / OscFMT / WSPhaser
1x OscHRM / OscHRM / DualFader
1x DualENV / DualENV / 24dBFilterVCA
1x NodeProcs / Matrix / TriLFO
1x Rungler / Rungler / TwinpeakVCA
1x DualLFO / Matrix / QuintVCA
1x MIDI option 1 x Frame / DualPSU
1x Lightweight flight case - Routing
Soundcraft FX16ii mixing desk
Other Studio Two resources
Game-physics engines
- Blender Game engine (open source) with Audaspace (AudioGL)
- CryEngine3 - Crytek GmbH (Crytek) game development SDK software (network educational license) (PC only)
- OpenSimulator (second life open source)
- Unity3D game engine in all computers including add-ons for iPhone and Android (+ 1 pro license - floating Apple Mac Pro)
- Torque Game Engine + package extras
- Valve: Steam / Source Game Engine SDK software
- UDK – Unreal 3D development kit
- Unreal Engine 4 (OsX)
Piping real-time audio-engines, sequencing tools and audiomiddleware
- MaxMSP-jitter,DIPS, mu libraries for OSC
- FMOD
- Puredata (PD)
- Lispworkspersonal
- SuperCollider
- Csound & Cecilia
- Pro Tools by Digidesign,
- Logic
- Nuendo
- Reaper
Sound and recording equipment
- 5.1 Genelecs 5x8040 speakers
Studio 1 Sound system: Tests in Studio 2 can be ported to 31 Channel Genelec in Studio 1 - 7070A Genelec subwoofer
- Digidesign002
- MOTU sound Card 828
- MOTU 2048 PCI
- ST30 Ambisonics kit + windshield
- 4 Channel DAT - Fostex
- DPA 4060 mic set
Software for design and web
- Final Cut Pro
- Macromedia Dreamweaver
- Flash
- Google SketchUp8
Computers
- Apple Mac Pro (2011) running dual boot with bootcamp - floating machine on wheels
- Apple Mac Pro (2010) and Protools HD - lives in the hubroom
- Server running Crytek licenses (in the hub room) and OpenSim Virtual Room
- Macbook Pro (just for streaming)
- Custom built PC for gaming (currently shipped to Germany)
- Xserve - running student and staff accounts
Displays, visuals, filming
- Apple large Cinema Display (on large wheel rack)
- 2x Apple Display Monitors (24") + 3 Apple TFT monitor (on wheels)
- TrippleHead2Go DP edition
- 2xHD TVs (2012)
- New HD projector Optoma
- Sony HDV 1080i- Digital HD video Camera Recorder
Interfaces
- Mouse :-)
- Gluion system (100 in/out) FPGA
- Navigation System (wheel for 'Ho')
- Kinect
- PS3 move motion controller
- Eye camera
- Space Navigators (4)
- Control Freak
- FaderFox interface
- Kroonde
- Dual pedal
Consoles and smartphones
- PS3 slim 360 (with games)
- Xbox 360 HD
- PSP
- Audioguide Android ACER Liquid
- Apple development license for iPhone
Writing metadata (tagging audio)
- Punakea
- Spotlight
- MPEG7
Mapping, webtools organisation tools for groups and information
- Visual Understanding Environment (VUE)
- Prezi zooming presentation editor
- FreeMind - free mind mapping software
- Zotero - research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources
Specialised in game-audio and interfaces
In addition to the above studio resources, we also offer virtual meeting rooms and NOVARS OpenSim.
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