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Old 12-21-2023, 12:01 PM
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Just for fun, what is the biggest session you have ever seen in use? The most tracks, etc. I am curious what size pro sessions come in at.
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Old 12-21-2023, 01:12 PM
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An LA engineer friend once showed me a movie score at his commercial studio with several hundred tracks, auxes, busses and VCAs. They had huge monitors, like big screen televisions. I believe they eventually got cooked down to Dolby Atmos stems. Their sound field system was something out of a scifi movie - the speakers cost more than my house. Truly rocket surgery!
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Old 12-21-2023, 01:12 PM
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I worked on an immersive art installation. 45 minutes of music and sound design mixed into about 100+ speaker channels. The session used about 1200 voices.
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Old 12-21-2023, 01:51 PM
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Anyone here involved with the Las Vegas Sphere and/or media which has played there? Those must be interesting sessions.
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Old 12-22-2023, 06:27 AM
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Anyone here involved with the Las Vegas Sphere and/or media which has played there? Those must be interesting sessions.
I didn't work on the Sphere, but the immersive art installation I mentioned did use a Holoplot system.
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Old 12-22-2023, 02:45 PM
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I didn't work on the Sphere, but the immersive art installation I mentioned did use a Holoplot system.
Is Holoplot what they're using for the Sphere?
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Is Holoplot what they're using for the Sphere?
Yup.

https://holoplot.com/news/sphere-imm...ed-by-holoplot
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Old 01-03-2024, 09:58 PM
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recently I had a session with around 550 stereo audio tracks
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Old 01-04-2024, 12:16 AM
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On one system?

Don't know for sure but multiple systems well over 2000.
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Old 01-04-2024, 10:08 AM
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recently I had a session with around 550 stereo audio tracks

Would you mind providing the specs of the computer you used to handle such a session?
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