QLab 5.5 introduces Object Audio as a new tool for sound design. With this, you can describe the speaker layout used in live performance or a sound installation, and then design audio cues with trajectories that move the sound sources within the space. It seems to be nicely designed, possibly taking a few ideas from the paper on DBAP by me, Pia Baltazar and Theo de la Hogue.
The spatialisation technique resembles DBAP, but with further refinements that substantially improves behaviour in edge cases where classic DBAP struggles, using shadows and filters. The heat map, as well as the ability to use the technique to move and crossfade between several paralell audio FXs, were both suggested in our paper.
It is nice to see such a well-made and thorough implementation of these ideas.
