PENNSAUKEN, N.J. —Orban Labs has announced the availability of Orban AtmoSphere, its Dolby Atmos upmixer, designed to deliver a consistent surround sound experience. 

The Orban AtmoSphere automatically upmixes any legacy content, including mono, stereo and 5.1 audio to Dolby Atmos in real-time. 

“Our Orban AtmoSphere upmixer enables television broadcasters to provide their viewers with  consistent immersive audio programming without image collapses caused by legacy non-Atmos  content.” said David Day, president of Orban, which is a leader in audio processing for TV, radio and internet broadcasting. “The U.S. patent-protected AtmoSphere technology also alleviates the costs of remixing legacy content to accommodate Dolby Atmos mixes.” 

Dolby Atmos is a technology that adds overhead action effects as well as subtle atmospheric  and object-based locational effects that places the listener in a '3D sphere of sound’ for a more realistic sense of acoustic space than provided by traditional surround 7.1 systems. Orban  AtmoSphere is available as standalone hardware and on the Ross softGear platform, the company said. 

More information is available at www.orban.com, or via email (info@orban.com) and phone (856-719-9900). 

PENNSAUKEN, N.J. – Orban has expanded its Orban TV line-up with stereo, surround and Optimod loudness processing solutions integrated into Ross Video’s openGear platform for live TV, OB trucks, television networks and production facilities. These new product offerings include:

OTV-220: dual, discrete stereo instances of Orban’s Optimod TV loudness control, compliant with ITU-BS.1770 loudness measurement;

OTV-M2S: four instances of Orban’s newest Mono2Stereo algorithm that makes artifact-free stereo audio from mono feeds;

OTV-5.1 Live: a suite of ultra low-latency 5.1 surround processors for live and broadcast audio including the 257 Decoder, 752 Encoder and iMix 5.1 Headphone monitor;

OTV-510: Low-latency 5.1 Surround Loudness Monitor and Controller for production and transmission with ITU-BS.1770-compliant loudness measurement and Orban’s Optimod TV loudness control;

OTV-MUX HD: a program audio embedder for up to eight AES audio channels into a 3G/HD/SD SDI signal, providing sample rate conversion, summing with gain of +10dB, audio delay up to one second and channel invert; and

OTV-DMX HD: a program audio de-embedder for up to eight AES channels from a 3G/HD/SD SDI signal.

Orban’s openGear TV products will be introduced at NAB 2017 in booth N3203 and will ship in Q3 2017.

TEMPE, ARIZ.—DaySequerra has entered into an agreement to purchase audio processing technology developer and equipment manufacturer Orban, the companies announced today.

CRL’s Jay Brentlinger and DaySequerra’s David Day sign the purchase agreement at CRL headquarters. Credit: Mike Pappas. DaySequerra provides audio solutions for radio, TV and internet broadcasters.

Once the deal with Orban parent company Circuit Research Labs Inc. is finalized, DaySequerra plans rebrand its new subsidiary as “Orban Labs Inc,” according to the release. The acquisition is subject to approval by the shareholders of CRL Inc. at a meeting scheduled for later in July.

“We are really excited about DaySequerra’s acquisition of Orban and to work together with David and his team,” said CRL Inc. President, CEO and Chairman C. Jayson “Jay” Brentlinger. “With a significant array of technologies, these combined companies will be a formidable force in the marketplace.”

Brentlinger is also the president and manager of Orban.

Over the next 90 days, Orban will complete the process of moving current Orban administration, marketing, sales and product development from the company’s Scottsdale, Ariz., location to DaySequerra’s HQ in West Berlin, N.J.

“Our expert engineering and development team has deep knowledge of Orban’s intellectual property and some members of our team have been with Orban for more than 30 years,” said Orban founder, Vice President and Chief Engineer and legendary audio processing guru Bob Orban. “I personally look forward to working with DaySequerra; our team will continue to innovate under the new Orban Labs banner and will drive leading-edge product development in the years ahead.”

Orban has been in business since 1975.

The fit with DaySequerra is a natural,” said DaySequerra President David Day. “The synergistic opportunity that this acquisition represents is just fantastic — opportunities like this don’t happen very often. We look forward to working with Bob’s team and Orban Europe to develop and bring to market the next-generation of intelligent audio processing in the broadcast, consumer and automotive spaces.”