It’s hard to believe that Dolby Atmos has been around for just over a decade. However, its prominence has grown hugely over the last few years, with its early incarnation in movie theatres growing into home entertainment and latterly dolby Atmos for Music. Many innovations have been introduced to make Dolby Atmos accessible from everywhere from Dolby Atmos movie theatres to people’s living rooms, right down to hand-held devices and earbuds. But in spite of all the activity and hype around Dolby Atmos, how many working audio professionals are actually working on Atmos content day to day?
This isn’t quite the same as looking at how much Atmos content is being produced, its asking how many people have benefitted from, or suffered because of, Dolby Atmos?
For that reason we’re running a poll of the Production Expert community. We’re asking the whole community, post and music to share information on their current practice and their intentions for the future.
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While Pro Tools was an early adopter, today other DAWs are offering a more integrated approach, a very significant player here was Apple with Dolby Atmos integration in Logic version 10.7. Pro Tools’ introduction of the Dolby Audio Bridge playback engine option and later the introduction of Aux IO has simplified connection to the Dolby Atmos Renderer.
The development of improved binaural rendering and personalised HRTFs have made it possible for the curious to experiment with Dolby Atmos workflows with just a pair of headphones but for professional work the equipment requirements, particularly for monitoring, remain high and this cost of entry has to be commercially justifiable if you are running a business. We looked at the business case for Dolby Atmos for music in our article Dolby Atmos For Music - Is It Worth It? | Production Expert
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