MNTN Spatial Audio Production Suite
The MNTN Spatial Audio Production Suite is a software bundle for producing, performing, and presenting immersive sound in physical venues with custom multichannel loudspeaker layouts. It includes the stand-alone renderer app, the DAW plugin, the virtual 128-channel audio interface (based on Soundflower, bundled with the installer), and the app for remotely controlling the spatial mix from additional computers and screens. Its object-based approach lets audio in formats such as MNTN 3D, stereo, surround, quadrophony, Ambisonics or Auro-3D be projected onto virtually any number of loudspeakers and subwoofers, with an integrated spatial bass management system and the ability to switch output formats at any time without remixing. It connects to major DAWs including Ableton Live, Nuendo and Pro Tools, supports a binaural listening mode for working on headphones before finishing on a loudspeaker setup, and exports mixes in a range of formats including object-based, Ambisonics, binaural, stereo, surround, and custom loudspeaker print-outs for channel-based playback systems.
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The Production Suite comes from The Sound of the Mountain, or MNTN, a 3D audio company founded by Benjamin Schulz, co-founder and software architect, Johannes Scherzer, co-founder and sound scenographer, and Lukasz Polowczyk, musician and communications and artist relations lead, who together describe over a decade of experience working with spatial sound. Early real-world use included performance projects such as Planetary Cymatic Resonances, which ran MNTN alongside two computers networked via Ableton Link to manage live multichannel spatial mixes. The Production Suite has since been complemented by the MNTN Spatial Sound System, a dedicated player and real-time processor supporting up to 128 loudspeakers via Dante, MADI, AVB, ADAT or analogue audio, syncable to SMPTE LTC timecode and remotely controllable over OSC, letting artists take a mix produced in the Production Suite and fine-tune it directly on an installed venue system.
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