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AES has a game old time
Third outing of video game-oriented conference is met with international enthusiasm, says Erica Basnicki
THE AUDIO Engineering Society reports that last month’s 49th International Conference on Audio for Games, held in London, was a success. The third edition of the event attracted 116 attendees from game developers and leading academic institutions worldwide, says conference chairman Michael Kelly: “The audience was truly international and included visitors from the UK, Europe, Russia, the US, Japan, Korea and Australia. It was large enough to draw key players, and intimate enough to encourage significant dialogue.” Keynote speaker Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, with whom PSNEurope spoke to for February’s Audio for Games feature, commented on his experience: “I was delighted to present my works in the context of this forum, touching on a variety of my projects over the past 20
UNITED KINGDOM Prism kit booked in for library work
PRISM SOUND ADA-8XR multichannel audio converters are being used to help the British Library digitise its collection of multitrack audio tapes. The library has
added two more ADA- 8XR converters, plus a Prism Sound Orpheus interface, to the five Prism devices it already owns. Operations manager sound and vision, Nigel Bewley, estimated that the library’s “relatively small collection” of 200 multitrack tapes would take around 20 weeks to digitise, including the preparation of resultant metadata and administrative files. He explained: “We will also be using a third Prism Sound ADA-8XR converter,
The British Library has added to its Prism inventory in order to digitise tape
which we already own, to digitise 24-track tapes and to ingest all tracks simultaneously.” This undertaking has been designed to ensure the future of valuable and historic recordings from the extensive British Library Sound Archive. Transfer studios at the facility
are equipped with workstations running SADiE or Steinberg WaveLab software. Bewley added: “The Prism ADA-8XR units allow us to input four stereo channels or eight mono channels (or any permutation) simultaneously. “Once this project is completed, the
new units will be used on other projects throughout our sound facilities.”n
www.prismsound.com
Participants in the AES 49th International Conference on Audio for Games, at London’s Carlton House Terrace
years and how this might translate to a gaming world,” said the London-based artist, writer and composer. “Gracefully, nobody threw anything at me afterwards and apparently I left them wanting more which is always pleasing to hear.” “AES Audio for Games Conferences
are proving increasingly popular,” concluded Kelly. “Feedback is universally positive, we consistently draw high-level participants, and the connectivity factor between them is extraordinary. We are already planning a fourth conference for 2015.”n
www.aes.org www.audioforgames.net
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