Studio

Facilities

Three connected spaces at UBC Okanagan for audio engineering, sound capture, and immersive listening research.

Studio

Sound Design A.I. Studio

A state-of-the-art spatial audio production space and sound/task-analysis infrastructure for audio engineering and research into task analysis, music information retrieval, and creative-AI tool development.

  • Digital audio workstation and control surfaces
  • Signal analysis workstation
  • Multichannel audio dispersion and monitoring
  • Modular and semi-modular analogue hardware
  • Analogue and digital effects processors
  • Motu and RME audio interfaces
Sound Design A.I. Studio at SPIRAL
Multi-microphone sound capture room at SPIRAL

Recording

Sound Capture

Infrastructure for recording musicians and sound-effects artists at the professional quality essential to the lab's task-analysis and music-information-retrieval research.

  • Earthworks M30, DK25/L
  • Sennheiser e908-B-EW, AMBEO
  • Neumann KM184
  • Shure SM57, SM58, Beta 181O
  • Rode M5
  • RME 12Mic

Listening

Sonic Experience

A 900 sq ft acoustically treated space for developing audio technology and running user-experience studies of performance systems and immersive environments across VR, video games, and sound design media — built to flex across the display formats current and future media require.

  • 36-channel Genelec SAM system
  • Dual Genelec subwoofer
  • Stage lighting
  • Large-format projectors
Immersive VR and sonic experience research at SPIRAL