HARMAN Professional Solutions announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire FLUX SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (FLUX::), which specializes in immersive audio production, audio processing plugin design, and audio analysis.
HARMAN Professional states that the acquisition will broaden its offerings across multiple applications with immersive technology, in addition to establishing a foundation for future developments by bringing together the FLUX:: team with the hardware and software engineers of HARMAN Professional. When closed, the purchase will include the FLUX:: immersive, processing, and analysis platforms across live production, installation sound, content creation, and post-production.
“The FLUX:: acquisition is part of a technology investment HARMAN Professional is making to bring outstanding immersive experiences for live and recorded productions,” says Brian Divine, president, HARMAN Professional Solutions. “From creation to real-time immersive delivery, we aim to empower artists, designers, and engineers with a comprehensive product offering across the entire system. The foundational technology developed by the talented FLUX:: team opens many opportunities for future integration with our portfolio of brands.”
France-based FLUX:: was founded in 2006 by sound recording engineer and current CEO Gaël Martinet, for the purpose of creating intuitive audio software tools. Now, a portfolio of nearly 20 products is used globally by professionals across many applications.
FLUX:: SPAT Revolution is an object-based and perceptual immersive mixing platform providing artists, sound designers, and sound engineers the tools to design, create, and mix real-time immersive experiences; FLUX:: Analyzer is a modular RTA-system providing a range of analyzer options for audio analysis and measurement applications; and FLUX:: Processing is a suite of plugins including channel strips, EQs, dynamics processing, and more.
“The future integration of our software technology with HARMAN’s industry leading brands make for exciting opportunities not only for touring applications, but for installed audio where spatial audio will play an increasingly important role,” says Martinet. “We’ve been pioneering and engineering immersive audio solutions for many years and to be among these HARMAN brands, namely JBL, which developed some of the earliest loudspeakers, is very compelling for our team and for customers.”
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