The ending sped-up segment is brilliant.

I'm not going ATMOS, other than playing with binaural mixes, for fun, but that said, I think this is an affordable, while still not cheap piece of gear and if you don't need to hook up external recording gear or record many sources at once, may even replace your interface, nice. I'm not a big fan of immersive audio for music playback and even though I could afford the unit, after saving up a bit, selling my interface maybe, I would not. Needless to say, that I don't have a suitable speaker setup, or the budget at hand to buy a dozen good monitors. Long story short, interesting, I'll happily watch more videos about it, nevertheless and feel happy for those who waited for such a device.

Guys! This is awesome I receive the good new few days ago and first think coming to my mind was yessssssss! Finally! And I think on you guys too because you have long time ago waiting for something like this, thanks for share this video with us just brilliant! This is a game changing device! a real one! Thanks for share the good new! ....

i LOVE This product.... but it may also be interesting for people who are already in the RME ecosystem to know that "most" of these things can be achieved with TotalMix out of the box - listen to commercial mixes - yes. Time align and EQ speakers - yes (although no direct import of sonarworks settings). Control all speakers with one knob - yes. The ORIA is a more elegant solution indeed., But if you already own an RME interface with enough IO, you get all this for FREE :) thanks guys - love the channel!

For 2800€ / 2500£ is a very good interface, and ticks everything indeed. At least two times I wrote to UAD to implement room correction (in this very exact way) into Apollo X series… they had everything ready to complete it using their dsp power… nothing happened in the past two years. They shall speed up now.

great review guys. I've been waiting for the device like Oria for a while now. Going to the shop now..

Thanks. The next step is metering. I look forward to their implementation. For now I will probably place my order as I was at the same stage you were at in trying to design the configuration.

This is perfect!!! It's what I said I wanted to see before I thought about going Atmos. When a interface just does it and it be a simple option. Dante then makes it very easy to ensure a low latency option also.

outstanding again chaps.

Great video once again, and Mark just made my day when he made the ADAT (squeek) remark. It is in fact verry verry nice of Audient to listen to what the actually using group of consumers (producers, mixing engineers) had to say and made a pro grade audio interface that removes all the previously hassle. So finally Mark can work on his Atmos studio, congratulations man 🙂. James i get the impression your video skills are still improving. Verry nice transitions and animations. Congrats to you too. I probably will never get the money to build a proper atmos system but i like new technology and will stick arround just to learn how it is done, how it works, setting up, callibrating, all that stuff is very interesting :-). See you in the next one.

Oooh! I think I'll buy one. It resolves every implementation problem I have on my list! Neat. And perhaps there may soon be some competitors?

Oh my f*cking gosh.............. Guys, think further than on this device it self: With Audient bringing a (relatively) affordable Dolby Atmos interface, it's only a matter of time for all the other brands to put similar products on the market, unless they wanna lose track and competitiveness. Competence should always be good for the end consumer.... meaning that little by little, the access to the Dolby Atmos market (as a profesional studio) will get cheaper, without compromising quality and features. Great news for us, audio gear consumers, and as always, great video. Thanks a lot for all the good work you guys do at PDP ❤

Awesome! Great video. I might be able to afford an Atmos set up after all. Thanks Audient!

Audient ORIA mind blowing equipment

looks great

I just needed to skip to the end to get the whole review in a nutshell ..a beautiful, profanity laden nutshell..well done as always boys😆

When I saw the email introducing the Oria my immeadiate thought was: "Ooooh, the PDP guys gonna make a video right away, aren't they? Probably recorded it weeks ago xD"

Yay!!!! nice thanks

You just cracked me up with that "$!"#ing volume knob"! For someone not specialising in audio, finding solutions to simple things like that has been such a pain.

Thanks!

Hmmm, I’m not sure that just because Dolby has invested heavily in a specific format translates to them being entitled to recoup their investment. Music is still largely consumed on portable devices and that’s not gonna change. Immersive home systems are truly few and far between. The standout elephant in the room is that this novelty format highlights how the industry of selling stuff has responded to the ease and convenience of producing music assets and it has found an audience in people prioritising format over creation. This Audient is likely the first in an oncoming wave of products that will simplify/reduce cost access to the novelty format, and I personally like the concept from this device kicking off this trend. No one needs it but somehow I doubt that is going to factor much! lol Progress in technology always has a phase of absurdity along the way, by the end of 2025 I’m guessing we will have many Oria class options vying for all the dosh no one actually needs to be spending but will trip over our own feet to spend. Great watch, thanks for the video 😂

Great video, Gents, thanks! I'm sold (if I ever go Atmos). Are you daisy-chaining your two subs in momo out of the LFE output? Or is there a way with this to run stereo subs in a 7.2.4 set up?

Amazing device, my only wishlist's for it to be perfect for me would be to add MADI and at least 1 (if not more) HDMI 2.1 ports. That would make it literally perfect. I guess the HDMI ports may not make sense though if it's not able to decode ATMOS in the box?

Something doesn't say anything about the Dynamic Range Control function. Is there one? ...And loudness control also.

Cat for size reference was a nice detail! lol

woooooow!!!

Very interesting. Still not convinced for audio alone, but this is a step in the right direction.

I’ll be watching this interface for a few years. Then if the quality is proven and driver support on a similar level to RME I might consider a switch.

Hello, Does Oria works with Nuendo 12 Dolby Atmos renderer (On Windows 10) ?

I’m not mixing in surround let alone in atmos, I used to have a great thx amplifier years ago, at first it was nice then after a while I wouldn’t care less about it. To me atmos seems like virtual reality, at first everyone liked it but it ended up not being used. I think if you really like it you wouldn’t care investing in it but I think it will be an expensive investment. Maybe it’s gonna be a great thing but I doubt it. People need heating and food on the table, maybe would be nice to have an atmos system at the salvation army so people can enjoy it while they’re in line for their food stamps.

Will the drivers support Windows WDM 5.1 and 7.1 surround like Focusrite does?

Thanks for responding so quickly. Do you have any idea when they will have the Dante capability?

I don’t have an Atmos set up yet, but I’m slowly working towards one. I’m wondering if I should grab Oria now, and use it as a typical interface (it seems pretty high quality for just that), or if I should just wait until I can do the full set up. What do you gents think?

I wonder your thoughts on the cheapest way to do decent enough spatial for the non-professional at home DIY music enthusiant. Thanks!

Looking at the display on its screen... along with the modern 9-1-6-style user profiles... will it let you use the classic 4-4-2 formation, so as to strike the right balance for the footie team to play a decent counter-attacking strategy..? Can we assume accessories include an 8-inch glowing white circle, to glue to the floor at the exact listening position... which, like a reverse burglar-alarm pressure-pad, can let out a piercing squeal should the listener dare to step ‘off’ it and out of the Atmos listening zone..?

great video guys, Do you know if it can playback AC-4 content as easily as it does ATMOS?

😍😍😍

Does it support crossover function for stereo as well? I've been looking for a solution for quite a while not to rely on subfoower built in crossover, but not wanting to spend a truck ton of money on Grace Design

Very interesting! It's cheaper than many bloated home theater processor! And more features.

How would you guys compare the Oria to the Trinnov Nova, Calibration wise?

I'd go for ORIA in my home cinema/home studio if: * direct support from Davinci Resolve into ORIA (no Dolby Atmos Renderer + second WinPC complexity inbetween) * HDMI-IN to also watch BluRay in Atmos via ORIA as I understand it for now, it's all not more that a better soundcard with some GUI for immersive audio (well done, though...), and still bound to Apple only...

Verry much awesome! So after getting the Sweet Water Creation Station computer this here interface I'll have to grab then. Yes mark if people are doing silly things like a guitar spinning arround your head I'm not down with that. But I am for making music in Atmos. People just have to rethink music. Now you can give the consumer all the multitracks. You just now have to think of your music as a real ambiance. As a live porformence around your listener. So where do you want each vocal where do you want each instrament? Now how much verb or not to use? Where do you want your listener to feel like they are listening to this song? Or album if the whole album.

🎉, I would like to know if is possible when the video with calibration comes you can test 2.1 as well please

I wish the 2 preamp channel had insert send and return on each channel like we had on the ID24 for hardware during recording

The digital outs mean this will be perfect for a Atmos system say with your speakers. So it can be that high-end standard of conversation. The analogue outs for the speakers means you can but this for a cheaper monitor setup and have the option to upgrade the speakers later on, or add another form of Atmos system for better translation. My thoughts about the perils of translation with Atmos is how things will translate to these soundbar Atmos systems. As me always aim when mixing to translate to the most common HiFi setups, we do not mix with a ridiculous audiophile system in mind. The types soundbar systems where the bar has a insane amount of directional speakers with maybe 2 other rear speakers and a sub. I feel like this is where your cool ideas for movement could fall apart and it likely to be the most common consumer setup for home Atmos. I do wonder if this sort of focus in Atmos mixing is going to be what defines the Atmos hits. As mixing wise, the hits are those songs that sound good on everything. Currently, we all go "wow, look at all this room we have" but when this becomes a big consumer thing, it's going to be mostly these sort of simple Atmos soundbar setups most common in houses. I have been thinking of how to make a B Atmos monitor setup for this purpose. The hardest part is the fact that the soundbar Atmos setups rely on no acoustics and room reflections to work properly. So how would you simulate this without having to have a separate room you have to go to check this?... Is this thought I am having actually a important thing to worry about? I have no idea

Hey guys, I was wondering if you could upload a sound demo, so we can get a rough idea how your monitors sound ?

Does it work as well in Windows as it does in MacOS? Like for listening to music and watching movies in Dolby Atmos? Also the price would be a lot easier to swallow if it was 32bit also, for recording. Which would make it future proof as well. But since it's 24bit only and €3K I'm very hesitant.

Will my stereo hardware be useful in Atmos mixes, or is each channel one mono channel? Can a stereo signal work at all in an Atmos mix?

I hope that they can handle reusable volume of production because I want one and I know lm not alone.

So do we now need xyz mic trios instead of stereo pairs? Do we mix in 3D? Or is this all a big AI simulation. I don’t really get it.

At first I thought I was seeing what was to be an interface that can mix Atmos with iZotope like algorithms not requiring the stupid multi-million speakers that MOST home studios cannot do, and MOST people do not have. It looks like I'm wrong. THAT will be the real revolution, when you can mix Atmos in a box, affordably and convincingly, with headphones and nothing else. I think we all know 80% + of the home studios are not sticking speakers in their ceilings and on their side walls (if they have them) just to satisfy Dolby. Joe

Not sure I would have used SonarWorks when Audyssey is right there and has been doing the work in home cinema for decades

M3 Mac mini is coming ! Maybe a Pro version too ! Use 16gb ram for complicated projects at high Hrz rates

I expanded my interface via adat for 16 ins and outs for £150. You can do it cheap if you want to. Tho I will be definitely looking into this interface, it sounds perfect! But I have to have a separate interface for headphone outs, and no fking volume knob 😡 tho I do have a software volume fader on the interface software 🤷🏾‍♂️

Thought this was a Bad Gear episode at first 😂😂😂

I have music submissions on hold and been in contact with several producers for last 3 years and with many projects and never once have been asked or told to submit a atmos version of a song I wrote produced and submitted for tv, commercials and movies. Literally what is going on with atmos. I don’t think it’s the worse thing but honestly. I think Apple is somehow trying to push people to mix this way. Is there even any movie theaters that are full blown atmos or are they still all surround 5.1.

I've always compared ATMOS to the Universal Studios-era 3D movies. At first, everyone goes nuts with the idea and gets way overboard with trying to point out how amazing the format is, (everything has to shoot OUT of the screen), until someone comes along and does it subtly (see: Avatar). Which is the same thing that happened with early stereo, too, come to think of it...but eventually everyone settles down and it gets WAY more "natural". We're getting there now with ATMOS and most likeky once we've all gotten used to it, it'll be a requirement.

Thanks for the video! Their announcement email really got me excited! I have two questions as a follow up: 1. Do you still use the MC Pro for phase alignment or would that also be possible with the Orias Delay Function in the OS. 2. Is it possible to add more than 1 Sub? Thanks in advance! =)

If the monitors are connected to the analog outputs, can the AES outputs be used as outputs to use hardware (like a compressor or EQ) in the DAW via the I/O plugin (the inputs expanded via adat)?

Needs 3 Adat Inputs (not 2), MADI, and an AVB Option…(vs. Dante)

Is there technically only one real listening position in every atmos setup?

If you guys made an ATMOS mix of a ball of wool bouncing around your studio would Floppy leap around looking for it?

Nice review. My take away is that this unit is the only magic box you need. There is nothing missing or things you would like to see added to this box. There are no cons from you experience. Is that right?

Imagine this thing had a HDMI port it would be a device to consider even not for audio engineers. You simply cannot get consumer signals into it. I always dream for a atmos decoder standalone. The only unit i know is: Arvus H2-4D

is it possible to hook 7.2.4 to have 2 subs? is it combined in one lfe channel?

this is a clear case of if you have nothing good to say better be quiet , I´ll shut up now :)

Audient has set a standard that everyone will be racimg to beat

Yes! F* AVID! 👍

I'm concerned about the system latency. The fact Audient doesn't provide any information about this (only "TBC" in the tech spec section on their website) looks fishy to me.

I don't think I like the control knob, the idea of a menu to get to where you go I find displeasing. Nevertheless the ORIA sounds promising.

Man! How do you change your body and face so quickly? :)

Keep 5.1

But some people hate adat

5.1 is still around. But it's not what everyone said it was going to be. Neither is Atmos.

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00:38 Why should they? No one is 'entitled' to make a profit on something they have invested in. If the product isn't any good (I'm not saying it isn't - I haven't heard it), but the idea that a company is 'entitled' to make a profit is nonsense. Many formats have failed, some of them were very good I'll take it as red that Atmos is good, for the sake of argument, but having heard high resolution surround on music I'm not sure what Atmos can add? A bit of ambience? Meh. On movies and games I *completely* get it - that is where surround really comes into its own. I used to sell high end surround so I do know that it really adds to the experience in those mediums and I am sure processing has come a long way. For music I remain to be convinced it's anything other than gimmicky overkill esp. if the front channels are anything other than pure unadulterated 96/24. I'm not passing judgment until I've heard it at it's best, but please, don't say Dolby are entitled. It just makes you sound like someone who's been drinking the Kool-Aid.

Seriously a review that begins 9:30 into the video. Sort of like spatial audio, completely superfluous

1st

Great review BUT .....why have trashy muzak in the background ......why DO you think it needs to be there?... No one who works with music needs to hear spare noise..its totally irritating

Why would I want anything else in this life? I am not stupid

...and many at no extra cost... well the price at tidal is double if you want Atmos. Apple doesn't give a sh.... about your binaural settings which you as a mix engineer carefully chose....and thats pretty much it. No Music on Netflix, who is using amazon for music? I don't know anyone using it (which doesn't mean it's not being used, I just don't know anybody). Spotify make enough money with their actual version as so they don't give a sh.... to bring better resolution or even Atmos to their clients. Way to go...

No sane consumer is going to set up an Atmos listening system at home...so it better work on headphones with little or no hassle.

Skip to 7 minutes in….

_Dolby have poured a lot of money into it and are entitled to recoup._ Come again?

Here to stay ! 😆 , the fact that almost nobody ( especially the general public ) care about atmos has to be a conspiracy lol I have heard this kind of idiot say : " but muuuuhhhh it is the future bro " for like 8 years now , they are highly likely to keep saying that for a few more years at least . With a proper system ( that almost nobody has at home ) yes it is great , at the movie theater it is awesome but it translates poorly for the consumer when it comes to music , sound bars and headphones are laughably bad and produce a result inferior to stereo

What a mess 😂

Just because Dolby has invested a lot of money does NOT mean they are entitled to recoup that investment? Since when does investing in something mean your entitled to earn it back? - if I go buy 2,000,000 speakers but suck at engineering, does that mean I should still be entitled to charging a lot? - Dolby Atmos is a scam.