AudioForum @ ISE 2017 - 6th February 2017 (Amsterdam RAI)

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The unique full day educational event for the audio community
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AudioForum, organized by Connessioni in cooperation with AES - Audio Engineering Society, is a full day educational event dedicated to audio professionals, systems integrators, installers. AudioForum is part of the official education program of ISE and is supported by ISE itself. AudioForum program covers, one edition after the other, the "hot" topics in the audio market. AudioForum@ISE2017 will present: Audio from the electronics perspective. Processing, DSPs, Software and Firmware for design, monitoring, set up

AudioForum will celebrate its 11th edition during ISE 2017, (after Milan, Mumbai, Beijing and Amsterdam), and will take place the show eve.

AudioForum’s aim is also to gather the audio community and the systems integration industry, that so many aspects have in common, under the same roof. To share views, discussing, and building a new business together.

Who should participate

AudioForum@ISE2017 is dedicated to consultants, sound designers, system integrators, installers, companies and anyone interested in knowing more about the latest audio technologies

Why participating

At AudioForum@ISE you will learn about softwares and technologies for prediction and set up, steering and control, decentralized DSP solutions, software and firmware for design and monitoring. And much more….

When and Where

AudioForum@ISE will take place on the 6th February, the ISE eve, from 10 am to 5,30 pm. Room G001/G002 at Amsterdam RAI

Audio from the electronics perspective

Processing, DSPs, Software and Firmware for design, monitoring, set up

6th February - Amsterdam RAI - Room G001/G002

Regular conference ticket for AudioForum@ISE2017: 89 euros
until 22nd January (extended)
Early Bird Ticket, from 23rd to 29th january: 49 euros

During the last years, audio has been dealing more and more with digital, with electronics, with IT. Professionals can count today on a big help from electronics side: thanks to different tools, from DSPs to softwares, to powerful processing instruments, they can easily reach total control, monitoring, remote management, and even anticipating a system or a speaker behavior

Monday, 6th February
Morning Seminars
10,00	Welcome Coffee
10,30	Introduction and Welcome to Delegates
11,00-11,45	Design of modern audio products: DSP options and issues: Digital signal processors (DSPs) have been a fundamental item of audio processing units in the last decades. An overview of the most relevant players, and of current trends in DSP will help to understand the background of comemrcial products. Embedded DSP development differs from code development for native processing, and a system-level summary of the options can help in planning new products design.		Umberto Zanghieri Profile Umberto Zanghieri Consultant, specialized in DSP development Umberto cofounded his company, ZP Engineering, in 1998 and has been working on countless digital audio and industrial design development. He specialized in DSP development, FPGA design, embedded Linux development, audio conversion stages, and all types of digital audio interconnectivity (USB, IEEE-1394, Audio-over-Ethernet, custom links) as well as wireless connections. Since 2014 ZP is part of the RCF Group, designing new product lines. In 2013 Zanghieri was presented with the AES Citation Award in recognition for his work for the Italian Section and for his dedication and commitment to the growth of our community. He also received two AES Board of Governors Awards for chairing the 134th AES Convention in Rome in 2013, and for co-chairing the 136th AES Convention in Berlin in 2014. He is part of the AES Italian Section Committee since 2010.

11,45-12,30	DSP from the users’ perspective Loudspeaker correction, coverage control, virtual acoustics and automated noise pollution measurements		Ruud Kaltofen – DSP Systems Designer, President AES Dutch Section Profile Ruud Kaltofen – DSP Systems Designer, president AES Dutch Section Ruud began his career as a live sound technician at Protone PA Rentals in 1980. For ten years, he has been working as a sound and system engineer until the company merged into Ampco Pro Rent BV (Ampco Flashlight Group) in 1990. Gradually his focus shifted to electronic development. Here Ruud developed a series of loudspeaker controllers and custom electronics solutions for the rental company and co-invented the Synco Rental Network Sound Monitors. Ruud’s Research & Development results on loudspeaker reverberation and the possibilities of manipulation are still industry standards. Ruud continued his work in Research & Development within the Ampco Flashlight Group at Event Acoustics, where he has been a valued team member since 2002. While Ruud’s focus has shifted to the development of digital audio equipment, he still gets animated when talking about past achievements.

12,30 – 13,15	Using DSP Control and Feedback Loop in Advanced Subwoofer Design for Very High Output. Nowadays the combination of modern digital management and control, innovative transducer design and innovative amplifier design makes possible to dramatically improve the performances of subwoofer systems in terms of maximum output capabilty and very low frequency reproduction. This seminar will show how transducer design can be optimized and maximized in order to be coupled to some special Class D amplifiers creating a close coupled Loudspeaker and Amplifier marriage, and how this marriage can generate a unique and innovative approach to loudspeaker system design for low frequency. It will be also shown how these two elements can be combined with advanced DSP Loudspeaker Processing in order to improve performances and adapt the transducer characteristics to the specific acoustic system generating a new approach to subwoofer design. The seminar will show the design philosophy and the exsiting products that practically implement it, along with the help of some experimental results.		Mario Di Cola – Consulting Sound Engineer, Owner at Audio Labs Systems Profile Mario Di Cola – Consulting Sound Engineer, Owner at Audio Labs Systems Mario Di Cola is a consulting Sound Engineer with more than 30 years of experience in design and engineering of loudspeaker systems as well as design and setup of sound reinforcement systems. Music is his passion, he studied music from the age of 6 and he has been starting designing loudspeakers systems at the age of 16. He studied Electronic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, and Acoustics at the Ferrara University. He earned wide experience in Loudspeaker Systems tuning and optimization in large-scale installations of any type, and in Loudspeaker Measurements from many years of laboratory activity and various training experiences. His main focuses are on Large Scale loudspeakers systems design and directivity studies, as well as high power subwoofer systems and arrangements. He currently is Senior Loudspeaker Systems Engineer at Audio Labs Systems, that he founded in 2002.
13,15-14,30	Lunch
Afternoon Seminar
14,30-15,15	Decentralized DSP solutions Advanced audio system design often require audio sources from various locations in a building to be routed and distributed. The speaker will show you how to optimise your design using the most powerful DSP tools available while optimizing the audio network and offering full remote control. Next to the design of a decentralized DSP system this seminar will focus on power management, cooling requirements, system configuration and monitoring of the audio system.		Marc Kocks Business Development Manager Poweroft – Fixed Install Profile Marc Kocks Business Development Manager – Fixed Install Marc Kocks: with over 20 years’ experience in design, project management and integration of theatres, sports arenas, theme parks and many other systems Marc Kocks is an fixed install expert. Educational background consist of electronics, acoustics and electro acoustics combined with a marketing and sales degrees . He has worked as managing director of an international group of rental, sales and system integration companies and is now responsible for is business development of Powersoft’s fixed install products. Powersoft is the world leader in light-weight, high power, single rack space, energy efficient amplifiers integrated with the best sounding DSP processing for the professional audio market. www.powersoft.it

15,15-16,00	Acoustic simulations in sound reinforcement: methods, problems, possible improvements In the last years acoustic simulations and software tools are more and more crucial in the sound reinforcement, from both a technical and commercial point of view. Every manufacturer needs to provide a software solution for virtual installation of products; anyway an accurate model of the complete audio + acoustic chain is very complex and a compromise is often needed. The speaker will provide an overview of methods and problems connected to acoustic simulations: algorithms, but also sound sources definition. Balloon response measurement and storage is one of the most crucial points and will be discussed, including some proposals for improving the accuracy without increasing the costs.		Paolo Martignon – Audio Labs Systems Profile Paolo Martignon – Audio Labs Systems Paolo Martignon started activity in acoustics in 2001: he wrote his Physics degree thesis on sound focalization with WFS (Wave Field Synthesis). During his Ph.D. he has been continuing working on transducers arrays, loudspeakers and microphones, for both audio and industrial applications. He is a passionate acoustic expert as well as a passionate musician. He is currently responsible of algorithm development for digital signal processing and acoustic simulations at Audio Labs Systems, Italy. Paolo designed a 64 channel, chandelier shaped bi-dimensional array for spatial music creation; the array is in the lab-museum Casa del Suono in Parma.
16,00 – 16,20	Possible mistakes in analog to digital audio conversion and vice versa, with real world examples A short introduction to buzz words like: sample rate, big depth, Nyquest, quantization and dither.		Arjen Sulman – Chief System Designer at MMconcept Profile Arjen Sulman – Chief System Designer at MMconcept Arjen has been working for the past decades for a lot of different rental companies and theaters. His main focus is design and delivery of excellent audio performances from existing large format audio systems, from corporate environments to events, to hi-end fixed installation. His knowledge in electronics and DSPs made him develop a personal approach to system design: using but also (NOT) using DSPs for the most promising results
16,20	Q&A session
16,40	Coffee&beer!

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www.aes.org

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MM Concept

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ISE – Integrates Systems Europe

The event was launched in 2004 to fulfill the need for a pan-European forum for the emerging markets of professional AV and electronic systems integration. The show grew quickly to become the undisputed annual marketplace for these industries – a focus not only for doing business but also for networking, education and technological innovation. Always owned by not-for-profit trade associations, ISE has been a joint venture between InfoComm International and the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) since 2007.

ISE – Integrates Systems Europe

Event locationRAI Auditorium, rooms G001/G002

Europaplein 2-22 1078 GZ Amsterdam The Netherlands

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Amsterdam RAI station is 300 metres from the RAI and trains run regularly from Amsterdam Duivendrecht station, Amsterdam Amstel station and Schiphol station, which are connected to the international intercity network.

Tram 4 (every 10 min) between City Center - Central Station - RAI (Europaplein stop).
Express tram 50, Sloterdijk - RAI.

Line 51, Amstel Station - RAI. Line 51 also goes to Central Station.

Bus 62, Amstel Station - RAI.

The RAI is situated alongside the Amsterdam’s A10 orbital motorway and has its own underground car park with other car parks nearby offering free shuttle services.